London Olympics Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

First announced back in 2018, the 21,500-capacity venue is the brainchild of Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp (MSG), the team behind the iconic New York venue of the same name. It will become the UK’s largest concert arena.The MSG Sphere will sit on a 1.9-hectare (4.7-acre) site in Stratford that was purchased by MSG.

Victoria Beckham may have just dropped the biggest hint yet that she will be joining the other Spice Girls to perform at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Concert this summer. The iconic band have reportedly been asked to perform at the momentous occasion on June 4th. All five members, Melanie Brown aka Mel B, 46, Melanie Chisholm aka Mel C, 48, Victoria Beckham, 47, Emma Bunton, 46, and Geri Horner, 49, have all said to be asked to reunite for the special occasion.

Going their separate ways. Back in 1994, the Spice Girls were the epitome of female empowerment and friendship. However, the ladies’ once-tight bond seemingly hit a snag after the group disbanded and they all tackled solo careers.

Victoria Beckham was inspired to “step away” from the Spice Girls by Sir Elton John.The mother-of-four shot to fame as a member of the girl group and though she stayed with them throughout their chart career, their 2007 reunion and 2012 appearance at the London Olympics, she declined to join in with their later plans – including a 2016 reunion, which was axed after Geri Horner fell pregnant, and a 2019 concert tour.

Aly Raisman has earned a break. The Olympic gymnast spent the last decade dedicated to her sport, served as captain of both the "Fierce Five" in 2012's London Olympics and "Final Five" at Rio in 2016, and collected six medals—three of them gold.

Lemn Sissay will speak about his childhood in Wigan, on tonight's episode of BBC arts series Imagine. Sissay, who was the official poet of the 2012 London Olympics and has been chancellor of the University of Manchester since 2015, was born in Higher End in May 1967.

If you're missing sports right now and have already grown tired of all the marble racing and whatnot that fans have been using to bide their time during the coronavirus pandemic shutdown, NBC Sports is ready to help. Olympic Games Week kicks off Monday night on the network and will highlight some of the best moments from the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics.