Woke BBC bosses on Radio 2 are now playing a censored version of the Spice Girls hit Spice Up Your Life. 

The 1997 number one hit by the iconic girl band has now had the word ‘yellow’ removed when playing on Scott Mills’ Breakfast show. 

The band, which is made up of Mel B, Melanie C, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell and Victoria Beckham, sang: ‘Yellow man in Timbuktu. Colour for both me and you.’

A music insider told The Sun: ‘Spice Up Your Life is a piece of pop music history — it’s baffling that the Beeb have decided to censor it.

‘The [band] are singing in celebration of people from all walks of life. It’s clumsy but not insulting. 

‘There haven’t been calls to change it so it’s odd they have decided to do so.’

Woke BBC bosses on Radio 2 are now playing a censored version of the Spice Girls hit Spice Up Your Life; pictured 2007

The 1997 number one hit by the iconic girl band has now had the word ‘yellow’ removed when playing on Scott Mills’ Breakfast show

The Spice Girls, who are the biggest-selling girl group of all time, reportedly considered replacing ‘yellow man’ with ‘happy people’ for their 2019 reunion tour but in the end sang the original lyric.

The BBC also censored the line during an episode of Doctor Who in 2023 as a character talked over it.  

A Radio 2 representative told The Sun that the edit was not made by them and is also played on other UK stations.

MailOnline have contacted the BBC for comment.  

The Spice Girls were the biggest girl band of the nineties but hopes of another reformation were thought to have been have been scuppered due to an ugly feud between two members. 

Reports emerged in November that Geri backed out of a huge Netflix biopic that would have netted each of the five members £1million each .

According to The Sun, the streaming service has told the band to make up otherwise, much like controversial drama The Crown, it will make the show without any input from the people featured in it.

A source said: ‘Executives are keen to have all the group on board providing as much input as possible – after all they are pop royalty.

‘But Netflix are the organisation who defied the wishes of real royalty and went ahead and made The Crown, so they aren’t afraid to go it alone when they have to.

The band, which is made up of Mel B, Melanie C, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell and Victoria Beckham, sang: ‘Yellow man in Timbuktu. Colour for both me and you’; pictured 1997

A music insider said: ‘Spice Up Your Life is a piece of pop music history — it’s baffling that the Beeb have decided to censor it. The [band] are singing in celebration of people from all walks of life. It’s clumsy but not insulting’

‘The project is in its very early stages so there’s plenty of time to get all five Spice Girls involved.

In November, Geri’s husband Christian Horner was forced to deny claims he was to blame for ‘derailing’ the band’s TV project.

He told the PA news agency: ‘There is a lot being written about different things, but there are absolutely no plans to do a family documentary.

‘Netflix do enough, and you see enough of the behind-the-scenes on that. So where that report has come from, I have absolutely no idea.’

The feud began when Mel confessed she had a lesbian fling with Geri during the band’s nineties heyday on Piers Morgan’s chat show in 2019.