With her latest album Desire tanking in the charts, former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell is setting her sights on a stage career.

Geri Halliwell told a spy, “I love the instant connection that theatre can bring and see this as my natural next step.”

A source said she has already auditioned for the play Little Shop Of Horrors for its run on the West End. The singer also lashed out at Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell as the man who halted her pop career after Mr. Nasty blasted her last video. She fumed to Neil Sean of Sky News, “It was such a cruel thing to do.”