The Spice Girls are being reconsidered for this summer's star-studded "Live 8" charity concert - after the band was axed over fears they would undermine the show's serious political message about world poverty.

The "Wannabe" stars - Geri Halliwell, Victoria Beckham, Melanie Chisholm, Melanie Brown and Emma Bunton - hoped to reunite the band and perform together for the first time since 1998, when Halliwell quit the group, reports celebrity portal Femalefirst.

But bosses at BBC, which is broadcasting the event, snubbed the fivesome, insisting the pop act was too trivial for the historic event, which aims to persuade politicians to cancel Third World debt, double the aid budget and rewrite global trade laws.

BBC also claimed there wouldn't be enough time for the Spice Girls to perform at the show because 16 major acts, including Sir Paul McCartney, Sting and U2, have already agreed to sing at the July event in the city's Hyde Park.

But the co-organiser of the concert, Sir Bob Geldof said the Spice Girls would perform at the event if they managed to overcome their differences.