Spice Girl has suspected meningitis

The spice girl Victoria Beckham has suspected viral meningitis and engagements have been cancelled, she said yesterday.

The spice girl Victoria Beckham has suspected viral meningitis and engagements have been cancelled, she said yesterday.

The singer felt unwell and cancelled an appearance on German television last night after a doctor advised her tofly home.

Mrs Beckham, 26, phoned Neil Fox, a presenter on Capital FM, after a reporter, Russ Kane, criticised her non-appearance. Mr Fox said: "When I spoke to her she was sitting on the stairs at her mum's house feeling very sorry for herself and not at all the normal lovely bubbly Victoria.

Brooklyn [her son] had just puked all over her and I had a feeling it wasn't a great Friday for her."

Mrs Beckham's agent said: "She has seen a neurologist. It is not serious, she is just exhausted and stressed."

Coincidentally, the pop star is a patron of the Meningitis Research Foundation.