By Jen Heger - Breaking Celebrity News Assistant Managing Editor

The Spice Girls were prepared to perform without fellow band member, Victoria Beckham at the Closing Ceremony for the London Olympics, because David Beckham's wife had told the group she was just too busy with her fashion label and taking care of her four children, but when she learned that the band would perform without her she had a change of heart, Breaking Celebrity News is exclusively reporting.

"Danny Boyle (producer of the opening & closing ceremony for the London Olympics) had been trying to get the Spice Girls to perform for over a year and a half," a source close to the band tells Breaking Celebrity News. "He felt that there was no way London could host the Olympics and not have the Spice Girls perform. They hold the record for the most popular all female band in history and are a really important part of the British music scene.

"The lone holdout during the entire negotiation process leading up to the Games had been Victoria. Victoria said her schedu