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Posted by: thisispop Jul 19 2006, 06:15 PM
Virgin.net Music news Mel B and Murphy to wed
According to reports Eddie Murphy will wed former Spice Girl Mel B in September. Yes, you did read that correctly.
The pair met at a Beverly Hills party last month and after a whirlwind romance have already booked the plush Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles for their "dream wedding".
Mel and Hollywood star Murphy, who is 14 years her senior, are planning an intimate ceremony for friends and family.
Both Mel and Eddie have been married before. Mel had a three-year marriage with dancer Jimmy Gulzar, which ended in 2001, while Murphy divorced Nicole Mitchell Murphy, his wife of 12 years, in May.
A source revealed to the Daily Star: "Mel just wants her and Eddie.
"But they will be inviting their friends to a lavish wedding breakfast reception at the venue afterwards."
Any Comments?
Posted by: Slick Jul 19 2006, 06:19 PM
If this is true, I am actually really amazed! I didn't think anything of it when I heard they were together because celebrity couples happen all the time and never last long. I didn't think marriage would be in the equation!
Posted by: Gary Jul 19 2006, 06:19 PM
Bloody..Hell..
Posted by: jack89 Jul 19 2006, 06:32 PM
FAST
Posted by: thisispop Jul 19 2006, 06:40 PM
Obviously Eddie has fallen for Mel's Zig-a-zig aah!
Posted by: Mark Jul 19 2006, 07:38 PM
I never even knew they were together.
As this article was from the Daily Star, i wouldn't take it too seriously.
Posted by: Feel_the_Fever Jul 19 2006, 08:16 PM
thats her career saved for another while and also her bank balance,i hope it last tho,how many times has eddie been married before?
Posted by: Rob Jul 19 2006, 08:34 PM
Didn't they only start dating, like, last week?! She must really need the cash
Posted by: Pipa Jul 20 2006, 02:09 AM
Man, is she clever or what! LOLOL
Posted by: tigerboy Jul 20 2006, 07:39 AM
QUOTE(Feel_the_Fever @ Jul 19 2006, 09:17 PM)
thats her career saved for another while and also her bank balance,i hope it last tho,how many times has eddie been married before?
i fear for family movies everywhere. and i hope that they dont do a 'price and andre', and plan an album of duets.
All hail... "the $h!t Jamie Foxx"
Posted by: thisispop Jul 20 2006, 08:47 AM
QUOTE(tigerboy @ Jul 20 2006, 08:40 AM)
i fear for family movies everywhere. and i hope that they dont do a 'price and andre', and plan an album of duets.
All hail... "the $h!t Jamie Foxx"
More like All hail.... "the unfunny Richard Pryor"
Posted by: Dino Jul 20 2006, 08:54 AM
QUOTE(thisispop @ Jul 20 2006, 10:48 AM)
More like All hail.... "the unfunny Richard Pryor"
Erhm Richard pryor is dead!!!
Posted by: thisispop Jul 20 2006, 09:01 AM
QUOTE(Dino @ Jul 20 2006, 09:55 AM)
Erhm Richard pryor is dead!!!
True, but when Eddie Murphy first came onto the scene in the early 1980s he was compared to the comedy genius that was Richard Pryor.
Posted by: thisispop Apr 27 2007, 01:27 PM
Mel B 'enjoyed lesbian relationship' Friday, April 27 2007, 10:07 BST DigitalSpy.com By Nick Levine, Entertainment Reporter
Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown reportedly enjoyed a two-year relationship with a woman.
The singer is said to have ended the romance with a film executive known only as Christine because she did not want to settle down.
Brown's friend Christa Parker told Closer: "Mel told me they'd split because Christine wanted more commitment."
Parker also claimed that she enjoyed a brief romance with the pop star, saying: "We had drunk quite a lot and it was late, so Mel suggested I stay over.
"Mel started complaining that she hadn't had sex for a while and was feeling horny. Mel said she needed sex and asked me if I wanted to. I'd had a bit to drink and said yes."
Brown has previously said of her sexuality: "People can call me lesbian, bisexual or heterosexual, but I know who's in my bed and that's it - I have a huge libido and a great sex life."
Any Comments?
Posted by: Jark Apr 27 2007, 04:10 PM
LOL. Shame this publicity cant seem to translate into public popularity for Mel.
Posted by: Simon. Apr 27 2007, 10:01 PM
LOL go mel
Posted by: Jack89 Aug 2 2007, 05:16 PM
Did anybody see it on the news today Yay she has well and truely got her own back on eddie murphy
Posted by: Lukuzz Aug 2 2007, 05:29 PM
will have to look on youtube
Posted by: Matt Aloud Aug 2 2007, 06:47 PM
loved the
"we've seen you in the movies, now we'll see you in court" bit
Posted by: Lukuzz Aug 3 2007, 10:00 AM
i cnt find it anywhere lol
Posted by: Gary Aug 3 2007, 02:59 PM
I would have loved to have seen that.
Posted by: Feel_the_Fever Aug 3 2007, 11:24 PM
i hope utube get it
Posted by: Jark Aug 4 2007, 12:27 PM
I loved how in the bits they showed on ITV News, Mel B was giving a heartfelt appeal to all the dads out there to support their kids and that brutish lawyer woman butts in and goes 'Mr Murphy, we'll see ya in court!'
Posted by: boytoy84 Aug 6 2007, 10:06 AM
After all this, I just hope the child has a great childhood. Having Mel as a mom, I'm sure that'll be a sure thing
It has been confirmed that Mel B is a contestant on the US Dancing With The Stars!
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Mel B, Jane Seymour sign up for 'Dancing' Wednesday, August 29 2007, 13:25 BST (08:25 ET)
By James Welsh, International Editor
'Good Morning America' / ABC Scary Spice Girl Mel B is to compete in the American version of Strictly Come Dancing, it was announced today.
Dancing with the Stars host Tom Bergeron and reigning champion Apolo Anton Ohno made the announcement on ABC's Good Morning America.
Competing with Mel B will be Jane Seymour, Marie Osmond, Wayne Newton, Floyd Mayweather, Helio Castroneves, 90210's Jennie Garth, All My Children alum Cameron Mathison, model Albert Reed, The Cheetah Girls' Sabrina Bryan, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, and Josie Maran.
Explaining why she signed up to the show, Jane Seymour told GMA: "My mum's very ill in England and this turns out to be her favourite show ever... I just couldn't give up learning something new at this point in my life from the best in the business."
"It's incredible family television and a dream come true," she added.
The new season will kick off with three opening shows: the Monday night will see the all-men performance, the women on Tuesday night, and the first elimination on the Wednesday. Dolly Parton has been lined up for the first musical guest spot, with Avril Lavigne and Gloria Estefan appearing later in the show's run.
Dancing with the Stars season five kicks off on September 24.
I just wonder how on earth she can fit in that along with tour rehersals and possibily promoting the Greatest Hits and Children In Need Single (if that is going ahead)!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Peter30 Sep 11 2007, 10:29 PM
Starts September 24th??
Won't that clash with the tour?!
Posted by: Lukuzz Sep 12 2007, 10:15 AM
well at least she will be extra fit for the tour
Posted by: TeresaBloom Sep 26 2007, 11:53 AM
Mel B Cha Cha Cha - Dancing With the Stars, Week 1 Tue, 25 September 2007
Melanie Brown, aka Scary Spice, prepares to take the stage on the hit ABC show Dancing With The Stars on Monday.
Her new husband, Stephen Belafonte, turned up to support his wife in the dance competition. Belafonte began swaying his hips in response to Mel B’s sneak peak dance routine. When asked if Stephen, whom she married in June, also dances, Mel B purred to OK! “For me, at nighttime, he does!”
Pictured below: 8-year-old Phoenix Chi and her 5-month-old baby Angel Iris.
Watch Mel B's Cha Cha Cha from Monday’s episode of Dancing With the Stars. Not too shabby!
WHAT DO YOU THINK of Scary Spice’s first dance on DWTS?
Melanie Brown - Dancing With the Stars, 9/24
More pics here - http://justjared.buzznet.com/2007/09/25/mel-b-dancing-with-the-stars/#more-21044
Posted by: Lukuzz Sep 26 2007, 12:00 PM
I'm gonna wait to watch it on friday on UKTV gold , but thanks for posting, I hope she does well.
Posted by: Feel_the_Fever Sep 26 2007, 01:25 PM
ya hope she does well also,looks like we have plenty of spice action coming up to keep us going
Posted by: Delta*Fan*Mel Oct 2 2007, 10:05 AM
Wow she was really good!!!
Posted by: designer_label Nov 3 2007, 07:09 PM
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Mel B has revealed that her husband Stephen Belafonte has been supporting her progress on Dancing With The Stars.
The Spice Girl has been asking Belafonte to practise dance routines with her at their Hollywood home, and the extra training has helped Mel to land a place in the final six.
"I make him stand there and I dance around him," Mel told WENN. "He's terrible. But he's a good stand in - he's good at standing there and staying still."
It was recently claimed that Mel's success on the show was causing tension between the Spice Girls.
Digitalspy
Posted by: designer_label Dec 23 2007, 04:59 PM
Mel B has been criticised for demanding a £10K fee to take part in a festive fundraiser, according to a report.
The Spice Girl made an appearance at Selfridges in London this week, singing festive songs and collecting donations from members of the public for the Make a Wish Foundation, which helps terminally ill children.
Before the event, Mel's US agents International Creative Management had negotiated the £10K payment for her trouble - which led to her being branded a Scrooge at the store.
"All Mel B did was sing a couple of Christmas songs, sign autographs and mingle with the crowd collecting donations in a plastic bucket," a Selfridges insider told the News of the World. "And for that she pocketed £10,000 that should have gone to needy kids.
"Many people felt she should have waived her fee. It's the least she could have done to help raise cash for the kids."
"Everyone was thrilled when Mel B agreed to appear," the source added. "With the Spice Girls in town for their tour it was a real coup to get her. It's shameful shoppers gave up their hard-earned cash yet here was a Spice Girl giving nothing."
Mel's agents ICM initially refused to comment on the newspaper's story. However, the singer's representatives have since had a rethink and announced that her fee will be donated to kids' hospitals in America.
Digitalspy
Posted by: Shameless Dec 23 2007, 10:28 PM
i wonder how true this is
Posted by: designer_label Dec 23 2007, 11:45 PM
Even if it is true - is she wasnt there they would of made no money - they made money cos she made an apperence and was trying to get money from the big crowd...there would of been no big crowd without her
Posted by: icanboogie May 27 2008, 10:22 AM
I read in one of the Sunday newspapers that the new Mel B album features a duet with Emma Bunton! Sooooooooooooo excited!
Emma has done a couple of backing vocals for her in the past hasnt she? Hope its a stomper and not a sickly ballad
Posted by: Lukuzz May 27 2008, 10:26 AM
hmmm could be interesting haha
Posted by: X=The-One May 28 2008, 12:04 AM
cud be interesting as a single release also
Posted by: xx Mel Mel xx May 28 2008, 12:07 AM
oooh could be good!!
must keep an eye out over here! or import it
Posted by: Slick May 28 2008, 12:10 AM
Oh wow Good idea! I'm definitely looking forward to this, I hope it's not just backing though!
Posted by: E=MC² May 28 2008, 03:18 PM
Hmmm. Very interesting.
Posted by: Adi_Gallia May 30 2008, 10:32 AM
QUOTE(icanboogie @ May 27 2008, 11:23 AM)
Emma has done a couple of backing vocals for her in the past hasnt she? Hope its a stomper and not a sickly ballad
Yeah, Emma did backing vocals on "Sophisticated Lady" but I couldn't really tell. I hope this will be more of a duet of sorts.
Posted by: Dan. Jun 10 2008, 05:11 PM
Oooh.
Posted by: xx Mel Mel xx Jul 18 2008, 10:27 PM
anymore news on this??
Posted by: Mark X Sep 1 2008, 03:45 PM
Mel B's assets enhanced by Branson? Source: uk.news.yahoo.com
Former Spice Girl Mel B seeks plastic surgery to enhance her chest in a new cinema advert.
The animated commercial puts Scary Spice back into her trademark leopard print catsuit.
Gesturing at her chest, the Leeds-born singer, 33, tells a German plastic surgeon she wants to make a "big impression in Hollywood".
The surgeon - Sir Richard Branson in disguise - prescribes a movie service from Virgin Media to help her "stand out from zee udders".
Mel B said: "I'm over the moon with my animated alter ego and the advert really made me giggle. It's definitely fresh and original".
Mel B married film producer Stephen Belafonte in Las Vegas last summer following a whirlwind romance as he helped her over her split with actor Eddie Murphy.
The couple live in the Hollywood Hills with Mel B's daughters Phoenix Chi, nine, and Angel, 16 months.
Mel B found fresh fame in the US when she came second last year on the TV hit Dancing with the Stars.
Posted by: MusicMaster Sep 25 2008, 10:47 AM
Mel B swears on Live & Kicking
Posted by: Kryptonite Kiss Jan 7 2009, 09:24 PM
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Mel B. is trying to expand her brand beyond the former Spice Girls image.
"Scary" Spice will soon be releasing her own fitness video. And it's gonna scare you into shape!
Forget "Master Cleansers" like Gwyneth Paltrow does, working out is the way to get healthy and in shape.
And, judging by Mel B.'s killer body, we'd say she knows a thing or two about staying fit.
So, starting nationwide this February 3rd, Mel's three-DVD set of workouts, called Totally Fit, will be available for purchase. Though if you can't wait til next month, you can buy the discs now on the official site.
According to the video's description:
TOTALLY FIT is definitely not your average workout DVD. Mel's presentation is fun, inspirational, motivating and presents the secrets to her success to anyone who wants to change both their lives and bodies, including all kinds of lifestyles and fitness levels. "For anyone with jubbily bits, I'm going to tighten you up, make you laugh and enjoy your work out no matter what level of fitness you are," says Mel B.
TOTALLY FIT breaks down Mel's straightforward approach to staying in shape into a simple 28-day plan. The workout includes a warm up and a strong full body cardio routine great for all levels of fitness. Thanks to Mel B's TOTALLY FIT cardio workout enjoy the added fat burning effects as you concentrate on shaping up those targeted areas, specifically your arms, legs, bums and tums. Enjoy a well-deserved cool down at the end of the disc.
This is more A Melanie C thing. But it's nice to know that she's busy in 2009
Posted by: Delta*Fan*Mel Jan 11 2009, 05:22 PM
I just bought it and it really kills you! Deffo a good workout lol! Mel's really entertaining through it so it helps keep you motivated.
Posted by: Mark X Apr 24 2009, 10:56 PM
http://twitter.com/OfficialMelB
Posted by: Theo Aloud Oct 22 2009, 06:17 PM
ITV1 program about people in poor housing in Leeds, and Mel B is one of the celebs staying with them. Anyone watched this on Tuesday?
Posted by: SweetCandy Oct 23 2009, 08:20 PM
I did. It was a very good show.
Posted by: SweetCandy Oct 31 2009, 02:08 PM
Mel should kick tyrone's butt he's so lazy.
Posted by: Lukuzz Nov 1 2009, 04:19 PM
Yeah I've been watching it, its really good, and I love Mel!
Posted by: BounceBounce08 Nov 12 2009, 11:42 AM
I don't think she did the best job out of all the celebrities to be honest!
She just disappeared in the evening to the gym and then didn't come back til late, could she seriously not live without the gym just for 7 days for the programme, no one else did it!
And what was with the giving a gym membership to the family, I'm sure the family had more important priorities than a gym membership and would have appreciated something more worthwhile!!!
Posted by: Dré Nov 12 2010, 03:56 PM
Performance of the song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY_tryIn6u8
It sounds good
Posted by: Neil Nov 12 2010, 07:59 PM
Songs sounds like it could be quite good. Very generic though, could be anyone. In fact it doesn't even sound like her lol and there's so much auto tune.
Posted by: Silver Rocket Nov 15 2010, 02:04 PM
Oh dear.
Posted by: Jay ☆ Sep 7 2017, 02:40 AM
A thread to post random news & chat about Mel B!
Posted by: Liаm Sep 7 2017, 02:43 AM
Queen of X Factor xo
Posted by: Jay ☆ Sep 7 2017, 02:45 AM
QUOTE(Liаm @ Sep 7 2017, 03:43 AM)
Queen of X Factor xo
Obvs *.* (Can't believe it's already 3 years since her UK X Factor stint... loved her on it )
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Mel B's latest look, for America's Got Talent:
Posted by: VVIP Sep 7 2017, 10:18 AM
QUOTE(Jay ☆ @ Sep 7 2017, 03:45 AM)
Obvs *.* (Can't believe it's already 3 years since her UK X Factor stint... loved her on it )
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Mel B's latest look, for America's Got Talent:
This is legit my favourite look from Mel B ever! #FRESH
Posted by: JB2o2o Sep 7 2017, 08:51 PM
QUOTE(VVIP @ Sep 7 2017, 05:18 AM)
This is legit my favourite look from Mel B ever! #FRESH
her blue "Mystique" outfit I loved, this one meh I really didn't like it. I do enjoy how she's playing around with different things this season like her every changing hair colors
Posted by: Liаm Sep 7 2017, 10:44 PM
Every week she looks so good at AGT! Love her as a judge too
Posted by: iTsound Sep 9 2017, 04:29 PM
It's great and so interesting to see her change her looks and outfits every season. Some of them are really cool and some others are really awful.
Posted by: JB2o2o Sep 11 2017, 01:03 AM
Mel is never boring, and I think that's what keeps me interested in her so much. You either get her or you don't.
Posted by: tommie Sep 12 2017, 06:41 PM
Messy Spice part 3018389:
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Anyway, onto the most recent issue. TMZ says that Sisterhood of Hip Hop star and rapper Siya was prepared to testify on behalf of Stephen in a future court date. Siya filed a police report yesterday claiming that Mel B pulled some Mafia Spice tactics and allegedly sent some intimidating texts to Siya strongly encouraging her to keep her mouth shut. Siya’s testimony would have allegedly contradicted any claims Mel B made that Stephen was an abusive asshole.
Siya was also going to testify about Mel B’s alleged drug use. On September 1st, Stephen Belafonte filed documents accusing Mel B of spicing up her life with cocaine and booze. Mel B vaguely denied the accusations, saying that she refuses “to be a victim” and that the truth would come out in court. If the text messages on Siya’s phone are true, it sounds like Mel B might have been afraid of what alleged truths Siya was going to expose in court.
TMZ says that Siya went to the police with the text messages, and police have reportedly opened a felony investigation against Mel B.
^^ And they're all absolutely horrendous. If only she put this much effort into her music.
Posted by: Jay ☆ Sep 14 2017, 11:32 AM
Haaa, chance would be a fine thing
I do wonder once all her court drama is over whether she'll consider getting back to the studio. Crazy that it's already been 4 years since For Once In My Life.
Posted by: JB2o2o Sep 21 2017, 01:44 PM
Big congrats to Mel B's golden buzzer Darcy. She won the AGT finale.
Posted by: Jay ☆ Sep 24 2017, 11:08 PM
Mel at a charity gala with her mother, Andrea:
Mel was estranged from her family for many years, so it's lovely to see them close again this year.
Posted by: Liаm Sep 24 2017, 11:11 PM
QUOTE(JB2o2o @ Sep 21 2017, 02:44 PM)
Big congrats to Mel B's golden buzzer Darcy. She won the AGT finale.
Mel was on the ball with that one, I knew she'd win from audition one And rightfully so.
Posted by: JB2o2o Sep 25 2017, 02:25 PM
^^ill never get tired of seeing them together!
Posted by: Michael Andrew Sep 28 2017, 07:23 PM
So nice to see Mel's close to her family again. It'll be easier for her to move on from everything she's been through.
I just hope all the divorce controversy dies away, and the ex keeps his dirty movies to himself.
I know she's not Mother Theresa. But he's clearly a nasty piece of work to make such threats.
Posted by: JB2o2o Oct 11 2017, 03:43 PM
Mel makes a cameo at the end of the infamous Anime video "Spice Girl."
So far I believe she's had a cameo in 3 music videos.
Posted by: tommie Oct 12 2017, 07:41 PM
Oh Mel, have some standards in what you appear in.
Posted by: Jay ☆ Oct 19 2017, 12:00 PM
A heartfelt post from Mel: https://www.instagram.com/p/BaY2xHElfV3/
Bless her.
Posted by: tommie Oct 26 2017, 05:23 PM
More drama - tonnes of sex tapes and she's now claiming Steven kept her drugged during their marriage:
Ok the victim blaming stops here! Posts like that are the reason people won't speak out about them being abused. Don't wanna see them here again!
Posted by: engineer Oct 27 2017, 09:52 PM
QUOTE(tommie @ Oct 26 2017, 07:23 PM)
More drama - tonnes of sex tapes and she's now claiming Steven kept her drugged during their marriage: This is going to get messier, isn't it?
Posted by: Jay ☆ Dec 9 2017, 11:49 AM
Mel B Signs With WME
officialmelb Yipppppeeee thank you WME!!!In the words of Eartha Kitt “I stayed on my path and did not follow the herd,I MADE away for myself,one of the things I sell and STILL own is MY talent. no one no one can take that away from me boom! You can walk away with NOTHING$ all you have to do is trust and believe and YOU build your own empire from scratch brick by brick 💜💜💜💜#earthakitt #singleparentworkinghard #blessed #nevergivingup #thankfulformylife #girlpower #wmentertainment #wme
William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC, also known as William Morris Endeavor, WME or WME-IMG, is an American talent agency with offices in Beverly Hills, California, United States.
Posted by: sammy01 Dec 9 2017, 01:00 PM
I read some Italian news report she has signed with a Warner to release an album too.
Posted by: Jay ☆ Dec 9 2017, 01:42 PM
I fear the Warner thing might be crossed wires (i.e. misinterpreting WME as being WMG).
Posted by: Alberto! Dec 9 2017, 01:42 PM
From what I see it's just someone misinterpreted the acronym for WME assuming it was warner Music and Entertainment or something. And WME is a talent agency, not a record label, so this wouldn't necessarily mean new music. I really hope I'm wrong, but for the moment I'm keeping cautious.
Posted by: MARIAH. Dec 19 2017, 01:39 AM
It's been a long, tumultuous journey filled with battles over custody, spousal support and even sex tapes ... but Mel B and Stephen Belafonte are officially divorced. According to new legal docs ... a judge granted the dissolution of their marriage as of December 15. All that's left to work out now is the division of their property. (Source: TMZ)
Mel B's latest Instagram post:
After my fathers death nothing could touch me anymore, For example, Ive felt all morning I have the devil on my shoulder whispering in my ear “ your not strong enough to handle the storm “ so after I finished my morning routine,cooking my kids breakfast and feeding my two frenchies and my 2 fainting goats thought hold on a minute stop 🛑 then I started yelling back to this diablo “ I AM the frigging storm “ boom. People often say to me (amongst other things haha but I will address those things in another post) ,”oh Mel B your so strong”and I have to think to myself, yes I am strong, but listen I’m only strong because I’ve been incredibly weak and during that weak time I taught myself how to access my inner strength,and I did,listen In my life I have been through many different situations that not many people know about,Ive have been close to death literally and paralyzed with fear which in due course over time has made me fearless extremely fearless,Some say “oh that Mel B is Spontaneous and CRAZY” plzzzzz,to that I say nooooooo,it’s called living in your truth and following your inner voice and trusting and believing that you are guided even when logic would say otherwise. I use to think I was the strangest person in the world,then I thought,come on now there are so many people in the world, there must be some people out there just like me who think like me and aren’t afraid to feel they feel bizarre and flawed in exactly the same way I do,and embrace it,I would imagine and still do there are many people out there thinking just like me and are exactly like me too. So I hope and pray if your out there and you need this message, yes it’s true,I’m here and we all find each other at the end of the day, credence and faith. That’s just the ways of the world and the law of attraction. Yes I am different and always will be. I’m not black and I’m not white and I’m not pink and I’m not green. In the words of Earth Kitt “I have no colour” boom,”and that is how barriers are broken.” So be careful who you invite into your soul,surround yourself with people that are only going to take you higher whether that be spiritually or physically.
Posted by: Jay ☆ Mar 8 2018, 12:40 AM
Some really shocking accusations from Mel, regarding Stephan: https://theblast.com/mel-b-stephen-belafonte-isis-beheading/
Posted by: Hayzayy Mar 23 2018, 08:21 AM
I love Mel B so much at the moment I wish she was doing more !
Posted by: Jay ☆ Mar 23 2018, 12:40 PM
Mel B in an old outfit she wore in the Spiceworld movie!
I do feel like she totally rocked it with the boots back in the day. Don't feel like it really goes with those white heeled shoes.
Posted by: Shia LeMuffQueef Mar 26 2018, 12:47 PM
She looks a ROIGHT mess
Posted by: Jay ☆ Apr 26 2018, 01:31 AM
Mel B wearing a Girl Power dress at AGT:
Posted by: Sparrow Apr 27 2018, 06:10 PM
I miss Mel B's style from 2015. This looks straight cheap and plain silly. Reminds me of Geri's dress for the Brits, which looked cool in 1997 and suited Geri's cheekyness.
Posted by: Jay ☆ May 9 2018, 05:00 PM
She appears in these videos too, although it doesn't seem like she's focused on much (I've not watched the videos fully, just skimmed through) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=099p2j0leIc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_BCRNi05RM
Posted by: Jay ☆ Jul 23 2018, 04:58 PM
Mel B's second autobiography 'Brutally Honest' is coming out 27th November 2018:
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As one-fifth of the iconic Spice Girls and judge on X Factor and America's Got Talent, Melanie Brown, a.k.a Scary Spice, has been an international star since her twenties. Brutally Honest is an exposé of the struggles and acute pain that lay behind the glamour and success.
With deep personal insight, remarkable frankness and trademark Yorkshire humour, the book removes the mask of fame and reveals the true story behind the Spice Girls, as well as the horror of her most recent marriage and her 10 year struggle to be free.
Brutally Honest? As if! Telling Lies would have been much more apt.
I wonder which genre it will be. Fiction, maybe?
Posted by: Hide&Seek Aug 25 2018, 11:54 PM
Melanie Brown ? If you told the person on the street that Melanie Brown has a book out, they wouldn't know who you mean ! She's good looking, but I don't like the photo or the pose either.
Posted by: Jay ☆ Aug 26 2018, 12:39 PM
Mel B statement:
“The past six months have been incredibly difficult for me.I’ve been working with a writer on my book, Brutally Honest, and it has been unbelievably traumatic reliving an emotionally abusive relationship and confronting so many massive issues in my life from the death of my dad to my relationship with men.
I've also been through more than a year of court battles which have left me finacially battered and at the mercy of the legal system which is ocmpletely weighted against emotionally abused women because it's very hard to prove how someone took away all your self-respect and self-worth.
I am being very honest in my book about drinking to numb my pain but that is just a way a lot of people mask what is really going on.Sometimes it is too hard to cope with all the emotions I feel. But the problem has never been about sex or alcohol — it is underneath all that.
I have recently been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and on August 9, after trying many different therapies I started a course of therapy called EMDR (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing) which in a nutshell works on the memory to deal with some of the very painful and traumatic situations I have been through.I don’t want to jinx it, but so far it’s really helping me. I am fully aware I am at a crisis point.
No-one knows myself better than I do. But I am dealing with it. I love my three girls more than life itself.I have also made the decision to go into a proper therapy programme in the next few weeks, but it has to be in the UK because I am very, very British and I know that will work best for me.
I am still struggling. But if I can shine a light on the issue of pain, PTSD and the things men and women do to mask it, I will do.I am speaking about this because this is a huge issue for so many people.I’m not perfect, and I have never pretended to be.
But I am working on being a better version of myself for my kids, for my family and for all the people who have supported me in my life."
Glad she's spoken out and is getting some help.
Posted by: Michael Andrew Aug 26 2018, 02:38 PM
She's one brave human being. Coping with all of that in front of the world's media must be extremely challenging.
Most would be tempted to hide away or give up. But she's still working so hard. I'm sure she'll come out the other side much stronger.
That's girl power right there!
Posted by: Babyboy Aug 27 2018, 05:26 PM
So sad for Melanie.....I hope she will recover soon!
Guys I am thinking to build up a Mel's timeline with all her solo projects. What do you think?
Sorry to link the Daily Mail but there's a lot of extracts from a draft of her upcoming book.
Posted by: Jay ☆ Oct 24 2018, 11:52 PM
Mel will be signing copies of her book in WHSmith!
Dates revealed:
Fri 30 Nov 4:30pm - 6:00pm Leeds Sat 1 Dec 11:00am - 12:30pm Nottingham Sat 1 Dec 3:30pm - 5:00pm Milton Keynes
Posted by: vibe Oct 25 2018, 11:53 AM
I have a ticket for Milton keys
Posted by: dachiki Oct 25 2018, 07:49 PM
I also took my ticket for the signing session in Milton Keynes. I hope Mel will sign other merchandise than her book despite the terms and conditions of Whsmith's mail.
Posted by: Jay ☆ Nov 27 2018, 10:47 PM
Brutally Honest was released today!
Posted by: tommie Nov 27 2018, 11:51 PM
Eddie? Girl, u serious?
Posted by: sammy01 Nov 28 2018, 12:35 AM
tried to get this at Sainsbury's and Add today but no luck.
Posted by: vibe Nov 28 2018, 06:40 AM
Apparently it’s sold out everywhere
Posted by: Alberto! Nov 29 2018, 12:01 AM
Bought my copy from Foyles
Posted by: Blond 2.0 Nov 29 2018, 03:05 PM
I'm not loving that hair style at all she looks old like that
Posted by: Spiceboy Nov 29 2018, 10:00 PM
QUOTE(Blond 2.0 @ Nov 29 2018, 03:05 PM)
I'm not loving that hair style at all she looks old like that
I think she looks great. She is in her 40's and doesn't need to look like she's in her 20's all the time.
Posted by: Jay ☆ Dec 15 2018, 04:03 PM
Has anyone else read this yet? I finished earlier this week. Spoilers ahead!
Firstly, I have to say the book's structure is quite unusual in that it's not written in any sort of chronological order. One moment you can be reading about Stephen, and then she jumps back to mentioning a situation with Jimmy, and suddenly you're back to her childhood. I think if you were reading it without having much knowledge about Mel to begin with, it'd be a bit of a disorientating read.
The main focus of the book is most certainly on dysfunctional relationships and signs of abuse, so it's understandably quite a heavy read. I'm glad that she has put her side out and explained how she felt/coped/reacted to various moments.
Everything regarding Stephen was my least favourite element of Brutally Honest, although I appreciate that this relationship is essentially the whole point of this book. I have to say, I struggled to ultimately understand why on earth she ever got involved with him, to the extent of marrying him within 2 months of meeting him. She says she felt vulnerable after having her baby and feeling burned by Eddie, but she doesn't give the impression that she loved Stephen in the run up to the marriage taking place. I think she implied that it was a bit of a rebound thing, to send a message to Eddie that she'd moved on. She says she didn't feel attracted to him in the run up to their marriage. The book doesn't really explain properly at what stage she genuinely felt that she was in love with Stephen (and she does say she was in love with him). Idk, the dynamics of their early relationship didn't feel fleshed out enough to get a true understanding of what she saw in him before it all went wrong.
I have to say in regards to her relationship with Stephen, the book does meander around describing rather similar situations between them, throughout... dare I say at points that made for a bit of a boring read. One of two of the scenarios could easily have been cut and you'd still have more than got the impression that their relationship was an awful time for her.
I think what I most enjoyed about the book was regarding her pre-fame years - more about her family/background and her drive/aspirations towards becoming famous. I can't remember to what depth she went into this in her 2002 book, but a lot of it seemed like new information to me! It's a shame she lost contact with her family for so many years... I think us fans knew over the past decade how strange that situation was, the warning signs really were there all along.
There wasn't too much about the Spice Girls really, although what was mentioned was quite interesting - particularly in regards to the 2007/8 reunion and how things ended up being a bit strained between the girls (Stephen being the root of the problem). Mel blames herself for the tour ending early, and she even says that they ended on a low point, rather than them "going out on a high". She takes the opportunity to apologise to the girls over it, so things must have been rather bad between them for her to feel the need to do that. There's also a moment Mel describes that happened on tour which is rather harrowing, I won't spoil that, but it's not nice to think back to that tour and realise that it wasn't a very happy time for her, when it really should have been.
Everything regarding her time with Eddie Murphy was pretty interesting to read, given that she'd never previously discussed him in any great depth beforehand. I'm kind of surprised that she refers to him as being the love of her life (as she has done in TV interviews too), because judging by her account of their time together he was quite unreasonable in certain respects, and then he was cruel to her at the end of the relationship (as we all know, re: him casting doubt on whether Mel's baby was his).
She didn't mention For Once In My Life! ( ). In fact she didn't go into much depth about her solo career at all, a bit about her TV work (although mentions of X Factor and America's Got Talent were more in relation to how her personal life was going while on the shows), but nothing about music.
There was a few typos, and there was one situation that was all wrong in terms of time-frame. I'd have gladly offered my services as a proof reader before this was published!
Overall I enjoyed it, at least as far as you can enjoy a book that describes some pretty horrific circumstances.
Posted by: Jay ☆ Dec 18 2018, 06:21 PM
Mel B and her daughters in a photo shoot for Hello magazine - https://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2018121665688/mel-b-christmas-exclusive-los-angeles/
Posted by: TomHo Dec 21 2018, 04:04 AM
I'm getting the book for Christmas. I am looking forward to finding out more of her story.
Posted by: dannjohn Dec 31 2018, 10:34 AM
the typos in this book are outrageous considering the team of people she has behind her...
she also seems to really overplay her relationship with victoria... i know victoria is closer with the girls then the press let on but i feel like in the book, mel really oversaturates.
Posted by: TomHo Jan 4 2019, 01:10 AM
I'm really enjoying the book so far. I feel so bad for what she has been through. The writer has done a really good job of capturing Mel's essence with the writing.
Posted by: Spiceboy Jan 4 2019, 03:37 PM
I feel like the last book captured Mel's essence alot more than this one does. Enjoying the read so far though.
Posted by: Tombo Jan 4 2019, 11:51 PM
QUOTE(Spiceboy @ Jan 4 2019, 03:37 PM)
I feel like the last book captured Mel's essence alot more than this one does. Enjoying the read so far though.
Ah I see, I didn't realise she had done books previously.
I have listened to both of her albums recently and I think that her music is very under rated. There are quite a few gems on her albums.
Also For Once In My Life deserved some success, the video is amazing, I love when she kisses herself.
To me, Mel B is the sexiest Spice Girl.
Posted by: Spiceboy Jan 5 2019, 12:14 AM
QUOTE(Tombo @ Jan 4 2019, 11:51 PM)
Ah I see, I didn't realise she had done books previously.
I have listened to both of her albums recently and I think that her music is very under rated. There are quite a few gems on her albums.
Also For Once In My Life deserved some success, the video is amazing, I love when she kisses herself.
To me, Mel B is the sexiest Spice Girl.
Yeah Catch A Fire, it's fantastic my favourite of all the girls autobiographies.
I agree her albums have some real gems, I do prefer her second one though there's something really summery and laid back about it. The first one I liked but it doesn't quite work as a whole body of art.
FDOML is epic, that kiss is cringey as hell though.
Posted by: Jay ☆ Mar 10 2019, 06:57 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-6784651/JAN-MOIR-Mel-B-right-kind-champion-abused-women.html What a horrible article. What on earth is a "right kind"? Mel's doing great work by sharing her story and petitioning.
Posted by: Jay ☆ Mar 12 2019, 06:04 AM
SPICE Girl Meb B has signed up to take part in an upcoming episode of ITV’s Piers Morgan’s Life Stories. The singer, 43, is set to open up about her recent acrimonious split from ex husband movie producer Stephen Belafonte, also 43, as well as her relationship with fellow members of the Spice Girls, ahead of their upcoming tour.
Good Morning Britain presenter Piers, 53, is also expected to probe her on her relationship with fashion designer Victoria Beckham, 44, after she snubbed the girlband's much-hyped reunion.
Mum-of-three Mel is also set to open up about her previous relationships, including with Eddie Murphy, 57, her romances with women, her extensive cosmetic surgery and her time in rehab.
A telly source said: "Mel's interview with Piers is set to be explosive, emotional and exciting. She's a live-wire and there's no telling what she'll say, it's going to be a no holds barred chat and she'll give as good as she gets with him.
"Mel feels comfortable with Piers so is happy to open up to him, but he isn't afraid to ask her about things she's previously shied away from, producers know it will be revelatory."
She will also touch upon her tumultuous relationships with her mother Andrea and sister Danielle - both of whom she was estranged from during her marriage to Stephen.
Hate Piers, so probably wont watch it. A total wasteman.
Posted by: Jay ☆ Mar 24 2019, 03:13 PM
Mel B revealed to Piers that she had a one night stand with Geri... the news is all over the tabloids now. 🙈
Posted by: Voodoo Mar 24 2019, 05:27 PM
QUOTE(Jay ☆ @ Mar 24 2019, 05:13 PM)
Mel B revealed to Piers that she had a one night stand with Geri... the news is all over the tabloids now. 🙈
Hmmm... Who was the top & who was the bottom?
Posted by: Piers Mar 24 2019, 11:29 PM
QUOTE(Jay ☆ @ Mar 24 2019, 09:13 AM)
Mel B revealed to Piers that she had a one night stand with Geri... the news is all over the tabloids now. 🙈
I always figured this story would officially come out someday. Jimmy Gulzar already basically said this happened ages ago. Geri also talked about the experience on Howard Stern without actually confirming who it was with.
Of course, I've read some tabloid headlines claiming this is sending the reunion into a tailspin.
But. Realistically. Is Geri going to care that much, really? In 2019, this seems like such a non-issue. Maybe they could have a winking nod to it in the reunion show. Have Mel and Geri dedicate 2 Become 1 to each other or something...
Maybe Geri can wander over next to her and sing "girls and girls go good together".
Never claimed to be subtle...
Posted by: Jay ☆ Mar 25 2019, 07:04 PM
QUOTE(Piers @ Mar 24 2019, 11:29 PM)
Have Mel and Geri dedicate 2 Become 1 to each other or something...
Maybe Geri can wander over next to her and sing "girls and girls go good together".
Never claimed to be subtle...
Here for it!
The press really is having a field day over this! One paper saying that Geri is readying a statement to deny it and that all the girls are angry at Mel, hmm.
Posted by: vibe Mar 25 2019, 09:14 PM
This has been sensationalised .
Posted by: sammy01 Mar 25 2019, 09:31 PM
No press is bad press, more tickets being added to Croke park Friday 🙈
Posted by: Blond 2.0 Mar 25 2019, 10:21 PM
Let's make the headlines loud and true LOL
Posted by: Spiceboy Mar 25 2019, 11:42 PM
QUOTE(sammy01 @ Mar 25 2019, 09:31 PM)
No press is bad press, more tickets being added to Croke park Friday 🙈
More tickets being added? Another date or did they not put full capacity on sale?
Posted by: Jay ☆ Mar 25 2019, 11:58 PM
The latter!
Posted by: sammy01 Mar 26 2019, 03:43 AM
QUOTE(Spiceboy @ Mar 25 2019, 11:42 PM)
More tickets being added? Another date or did they not put full capacity on sale?
If you look at most dates extra tickets have been added. The Coventry 3rd date I'm attending they have opened up the absolute very back corner of the stadium and put the extra tickets on sale. It is only 4 rows for the Coventry date but I'm sure these dates they want to squeeze every last ticket from.
I also think most dates tickets held back for hospitality packages a lot of those that arent sold yet have been put on general sale now as ordinary tickets now. With 2 months to go they know there will probably be a spike in sales again for tickets as we get closer to the dates with people wanting to pick up a last minute ticket.
Posted by: Blond 2.0 Mar 26 2019, 03:50 PM
I just hope Geri is ok she's so quiet about it .
Posted by: Spiceboy Mar 26 2019, 04:01 PM
QUOTE(Blond 2.0 @ Mar 26 2019, 03:50 PM)
I just hope Geri is ok she's so quiet about it .
It probably doesn't bode well with her current lady of the manor image
Mel B interviewed on an Australian radio show (from 36:14)
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"I did the interview, but I just texted her and said: 'I admitted on Piers that we had a little bit of a thing but don't worry about it, it was all tongue in cheek and I didn't go into detail.'
"'I said: 'This was pre your husband, pre your baby, pre one of my babies. It's fine.' I don't know why everyone's making such a big deal about it."
She added: "We had a long conversation. She texted me the night of [the interview]and then we spoke at length today - amongst other things cos we're getting ready for tour right now."
"It wasn't like a big deal.
"We've known each other for 20-plus years. It was just one of those things that happened one night. And I didn't go into detail about it at all.
"I just said it was a little thing and we giggled about it the next day and that's that. It's not a big deal, especially not in this day and age."
Posted by: Blond 2.0 Mar 27 2019, 03:08 PM
Glad they're still cool about it
Posted by: Mr.X Mar 27 2019, 03:25 PM
As much as I think it was very wrong of her to say that on national TV without prior consent from Geri, I also don't think she would have done it if the two of them weren't cool about it.
It's still very wrong though, and the way the British press has acted on it is just incredibly homophobic.
Posted by: Jay ☆ Apr 1 2019, 03:35 AM
Even though this is more about Geri, I'm posting it in this thread because it stems from Mel B/Piers Morgan/the tabloid reaction.
The Daily Mail ran an article yesterday claiming that Geri & Mel B actually had a year long relationship ( https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6868475/The-TRUTH-Geri-Mel-B-lovers-YEAR.html ), and Geri responded to this via a statement:
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"It has been very disappointing to read about all these rumours again, especially on Mother’s Day of all days.
Geri is really grateful for your support and loyalty for so many years. She loves the Spice Girls: Emma, Melanie, Melanie and Victoria.
She would like you to know that what has been reported recently is simply not true and has been very hurtful to her family.
Moving forward, Geri can’t wait to see the girls and all the fans on the tour, have an amazing time with everyone, and make some new memories.
She wishes you a Happy Mother’s Day."
Posted by: Michael Andrew Apr 1 2019, 10:02 AM
Daily Mail have framed Geri's official statement as being addressed towards Mel B, even though it's clearly about their salacious article above (see reference to Mother's Day). Unbelievable.
It's no wonder the general public can't tell truth from fiction anymore.
Posted by: schizo_spice Apr 1 2019, 10:59 AM
Still can't believe Mel B went there though it was really Piers Morgan who instigated it cannot stand him.
Posted by: Spiceboy Apr 1 2019, 11:09 AM
QUOTE(Michael Andrew @ Apr 1 2019, 11:02 AM)
Daily Mail have framed Geri's official statement as being addressed towards Mel B, even though it's clearly about their salacious article above (see reference to Mother's Day). Unbelievable.
It's no wonder the general public can't tell truth from fiction anymore.
To be fair the statement does sound like she is saying that none of it is true... “what has been reported recently is not true” sounds more like the whole thing than just one article.
To be honest I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s not true and Mel is potentially talking bull, who knows either way Mel really should not have said anything, especially when they are due to work together again soon.
Posted by: Piers Apr 2 2019, 04:33 AM
I mean. It's Geri's personal life experience...so...she's ultimately entitled to react in whatever way she sees fit. Buuut.
If I were an advisor and confidant...I would have told her to just laugh it off with a "eh, we were young, and it was the 90s!"
I really do believe making light of the story would take away the tabloids' power. I get that the article isn't accurate with the one-year relationship thing. But. Releasing a fairly serious statement? It lets the tabloids know this is getting to her. I think it opens the door to a whole lot more shady articles...wildly speculating that there's bitterness within the group...or that the tour's in jeopardy...etc.
Posted by: Jay ☆ Apr 2 2019, 07:11 AM
I completely agree, she's (probably inadvertently) fanned the flames
Posted by: Jay ☆ Apr 6 2019, 12:13 PM
A leaked demo!
From a CD-R promo from May 1999
Posted by: Piers Apr 6 2019, 02:16 PM
QUOTE(Jay ☆ @ Apr 6 2019, 06:13 AM)
A leaked demo!
From a CD-R promo from May 1999
Oh wow! What a find! I remember Mel mentioning this song in an interview in 1999. This was the only unreleased song (that we're aware of) from the Hot recording era, right?
Anyway. I think it's okay. It's not a lost "single-that-should-have-been" situation. It very much sounds like a demo. But it's unique enough that I actually prefer it over something with less personality like, say, ABC 123 that did make the album. This might have slotted in after Step Inside or something.
Wonder who she was working with on this one. My guess is Stannard/Biffco?
Posted by: Michael Andrew May 13 2019, 05:23 PM
Mel B talking to Lorraine this morning:
https://www.itv.com/hub/lorraine/1a9360a2407
She's on about half way through second part. She looks amazing and comes across very well.
No news as such. But there's an interesting video statement from Phoenix about living with Stephen.
Posted by: Jay ☆ May 30 2019, 06:17 AM
Yesterday was Mel B's birthday, which was also the first night at Manchester!
Posted by: Jay ☆ Jun 1 2019, 05:10 AM
Did anyone watch her on Piers Morgan Life Stories last week? It was a really good episode, she came across incredibly well. She was warm & funny, but there were plenty of emotional moments. I'm so glad she's survived bad experiences and is now having the time of her life on tour.
Posted by: Jay ☆ Jun 28 2019, 12:26 PM
I feel so happy for Mel & her family that they were able to reconcile. They'll never get back those many years of estrangement, but at least they're making up for it now.
Posted by: Mr.X Jun 28 2019, 01:31 PM
Love Mel and how she has been so fabulously received in the UK again. I only saw clips of the Life Stories interview, as I cannot stand Piers Morgan. But she did come across really well. Good on her and all her success at the moment!
Lots of media outlets beginning to report that Paddy McGuinness has stepped down from Celebrity Juice as team captain due to "scheduling conflicts", with the reports saying Mel B is the replacement!! This is mega exciting news, I LOVE Celebrity Juice and Mel has always been absolutely hilarious when appearing on it before!
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Speaking about the announcement, Mel B said: “I am so happy that I’m going to be part of the Celebrity Juice family and thrilled to be a captain. My mission is to give Keith a run for his money. Watch out. Things are going to get even more crazy."
EDIT: and now on the Celeb Juice Twitter!
Posted by: Spiceboy Sep 1 2019, 09:05 PM
Yay fabulous news I love that show, and it's a good gig for her. Am a bit shocked it's her and not Emma since Emma is such good friends with Holly and Leigh Francis...
Ps that gif I've never noticed Melanie C's facial expression in that scene before I always watch Mel B... hilarious
Posted by: Jay ☆ Sep 2 2019, 12:25 AM
great news, can't wait to see these episodes!
Posted by: Jay ☆ Oct 22 2019, 09:35 PM
Has anyone been watching? 2 episodes have been shown so far. She's a great fit for the show
Posted by: Mr.X Dec 6 2019, 03:28 PM
So in an unexpected turn of events (maybe since the plans for more Spice Girls project have now been cancelled lol), it turns out that Mel B has mentioned in a radio interview this morning that she was in the studio recently working on her own music.
As ever, TAKE IT WITH A LARGE PINT OF SALT!!
Posted by: Jay ☆ Dec 7 2019, 02:57 AM
Ohhh I would be happy if she really does give it another go! I can't even imagine at this stage what sort of sound she'd go for. Bring it on
Posted by: Michael Andrew Dec 7 2019, 03:57 PM
I'd love to see a second Missy Elliot duet. A dream scenario would be Lizzo too. But I guess that's incredibly unlikely. Unless she happens to be a massive Spice fan
Posted by: Mr.X Dec 7 2019, 08:14 PM
I could totally see her going for a pop/r'n'b sound but with some UK rappers attached to the songs. She mentioned Stormzy recently, and that would be great of course.
So we've heard a big fat NOTHING about that recorded music lol... you know Mel she talks so much crap she probably made it up.
Posted by: JosephStyles Jun 14 2020, 01:51 AM
Posted by: Jay* Jun 14 2020, 02:09 AM
OMG
Everyone trying to process Joseph's favourite Melanie C single being This Time:
Posted by: JosephStyles Jun 14 2020, 02:14 AM
Posted by: Spiceboy Jun 14 2020, 06:32 PM
QUOTE(Jay* @ Jun 14 2020, 03:09 AM)
OMG
Everyone trying to process Joseph's favourite Melanie C single being This Time:
Omg yes
Posted by: Jay* Jul 3 2020, 06:41 PM
Mel B has quit her role as team captain on Celebrity Juice, with a source citing a "hectic work schedule" as the reason!
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ITV confirmed the news to publication, with a spokesperson saying in a statement: "Mel has been a brilliant team captain and we'd like to thank her for all the laughs. We have no doubt she'll be back to banter with Keith as a guest on the show in the near future.
Yes, Melanie. A hectic schedule touring the world and that 😉
Posted by: sammy01 Jul 3 2020, 08:21 PM
Well she hasn't got any other on going jobs so unless she has got something else up her sleeve it looks like Mel is looking to be very dedicated to a certain project next year.
Posted by: Andrew. Jul 3 2020, 08:25 PM
Tbh Celebrity Juice is kinda dead, it's just not as funny as it used to be and I don't think the ratings are great these days. It's not a catastrophic loss for her.
Posted by: Mr.X Jul 3 2020, 09:21 PM
I'm glad, that show was bad as hell... And she wasnt even that funny in it either
Posted by: sammy01 Jul 3 2020, 09:34 PM
FYI Celeb juice is Oct-March contract and Mel B wont be in the UK in February/march she will be as far away as you can get from the UK with the kangaroos if the next couple of months go to plan.
Posted by: Spiceboy Jul 4 2020, 12:06 AM
Shame as it was a steady gig for her but tbh I don't think she was that great on it anyway, she was the most unlikable judge they've ever had really, her constant eye rolling and acting annoyed just didn't really suit the show. Although I have to say those home filmed episodes she really shone on and was fantastic on those ones.
I get the feeling you think Mel looks decent in her insta post Schizo?
Mod Edit: For context, the above post was accidentally posted a few times... but I've deleted them! - Jay
Posted by: schizo_spice Oct 29 2020, 01:19 PM
QUOTE(Scary Spice(boy) @ Oct 29 2020, 01:15 PM)
I get the feeling you think Mel looks decent in her insta post Schizo?
Posted by: Mr.X Oct 29 2020, 02:06 PM
She does look amazing!!
Posted by: dancinqueen Oct 29 2020, 03:51 PM
Mel B looks amazing in her new Instagram post.
Posted by: sammy01 Oct 29 2020, 04:13 PM
She does I just hope that look and her being 'back' isn't wasted on some crappy tv show or TV advert or something low rent.
Posted by: vibe Oct 29 2020, 04:40 PM
No she’s just signed a multi million record contract.
Scary is back for Halloween 👻
Posted by: Scary Spice(boy) Oct 29 2020, 04:45 PM
QUOTE(vibe @ Oct 29 2020, 04:40 PM)
No she’s just signed a multi million record contract.
Scary is back for Halloween 👻
We can dream
I wonder what happened with that Australian record contract she signed while on AUS X-Factor??? She never released anything.
Posted by: sammy01 Oct 29 2020, 05:02 PM
She might have filmed or recorded something for the channel 4 documentary next year to celebrate Wannabes anniversary.
She looks like she is at home so having a crew round filming her talking head part might have happened.
Speaking of the channel 4 documentary, channel 4 had the Brits 97 performance pulled from YouTube recently that a fan had uploaded in 4k. The Brits has always been an ITV show so channel 4 must have the rights for it now I'm assuming for the documentary.
Posted by: Jay* Oct 29 2020, 05:51 PM
Mel's looking stunning Glad she's seemingly made a return to social media!
Posted by: Chemistry Oct 29 2020, 06:00 PM
She is looking incredible indeed! Wonder what it's for or if she was just dressing up at home.
Posted by: Maz! Oct 29 2020, 06:20 PM
She looks so good
Posted by: Jay* Nov 28 2020, 08:17 PM
Mel is on Michael McIntyre's The Wheel show, 8:30pm!
Posted by: spiceboy Nov 28 2020, 08:47 PM
I'm watching it, a bit naff but nice to see Mel B on TV again.
Her commentary was a load of nonsense though she claimed that they had a pattern when writing songs and Emma and Mel C would start their songs Wannabe - Mel B Who do you think you are - Geri Naked - Geri If u can't dance - Mel B Spice up your life - All Stop - Geri Too Much - Mel B Never give up on the good times - Geri Saturday night divas - All Move over - All The lady is a vamp -Geri Holler - Mel B Tell me - Mel B? Right back at ya - All If u wanna have some fun - Mel B Weekend love - Victoria?? (I'm not actually sure)
Posted by: spiceboy Nov 28 2020, 09:01 PM
Cannot get over how amazing Mel B looks on this show
Posted by: Piers Nov 28 2020, 09:28 PM
QUOTE(spiceboy @ Nov 28 2020, 03:47 PM)
I'm watching it, a bit naff but nice to see Mel B on TV again.
Her commentary was a load of nonsense though she claimed that they had a pattern when writing songs and Emma and Mel C would start their songs Wannabe - Mel B Who do you think you are - Geri Naked - Geri If u can't dance - Mel B Spice up your life - All Stop - Geri Too Much - Mel B Never give up on the good times - Geri Saturday night divas - All Move over - All The lady is a vamp -Geri Holler - Mel B Tell me - Mel B? Right back at ya - All If u wanna have some fun - Mel B Weekend love - Victoria?? (I'm not actually sure)
^ Emma starts Weekend Love and Victoria starts Tell Me Why. The theory doesn't sound especially true to me either, though. I'm not going through all their b-sides and unreleased stuff. But if I were to go solely on whose voice is heard solo first on each song of album tracks...I'd guess it'd go...
Emma - 8 Mel B - 7 Mel C - 9 Geri - 7 Victoria - 1
The above is pretty debatable. Mel C is technically heard first on a few songs like Say You'll Be There and Love thing (so I gave her the point)...but she doesn't have the first verse in those. I didn't give a point at all for Spice Up Your Life because the group carries it together for so long. Geri racked up several despite not even being on a third of the material. Victoria is only truly heard first in Tell Me Why. She has the first verse in Saturday Night Divas (a rarity for her), but I still clocked it for Geri just because of her solo "Saturday Night"s...but...I don't know...maybe Victoria should get that point. I think I had to be pretty bored to do this...lol.
Posted by: Jay* Nov 28 2020, 09:30 PM
She looked fabulous and was fun Lol at the Emma/Melanie C begin their songs thing.
Posted by: spiceboy Nov 28 2020, 10:15 PM
QUOTE(Piers @ Nov 28 2020, 09:28 PM)
^ Emma starts Weekend Love and Victoria starts Tell Me Why. The theory doesn't sound especially true to me either, though. I'm not going through all their b-sides and unreleased stuff. But if I were to go solely on whose voice is heard solo first on each song of album tracks...I'd guess it'd go...
Emma - 8 Mel B - 7 Mel C - 9 Geri - 7 Victoria - 1
The above is pretty debatable. Mel C is technically heard first on a few songs like Say You'll Be There and Love thing (so I gave her the point)...but she doesn't have the first verse in those. I didn't give a point at all for Spice Up Your Life because the group carries it together for so long. Geri racked up several despite not even being on a third of the material. Victoria is only truly heard first in Tell Me Why. She has the first verse in Saturday Night Divas (a rarity for her), but I still clocked it for Geri just because of her solo "Saturday Night"s...but...I don't know...maybe Victoria should get that point. I think I had to be pretty bored to do this...lol.
I suppose by that counting Emma and Melanie C did start the most times tbf Also if you add Emma and Mel's totals together that is 17 compared to the other three girls 15 between them
Posted by: Mr.X Nov 29 2020, 12:56 AM
I think she meant they were the first ones to lay down the voices and provide ground work for the songs with their singing. Remember the Forever producers were really complimentary of their voices and how they worked songs around Emma's voice as well.
Maybe that's what she meant? They lay down the songs once they are written and then the others jump on top?
Posted by: sammy01 Nov 29 2020, 08:58 AM
This is a TV show Mel B was probably told to waffle a bit and be a bit unsure build some tension. If she had said 'we toured last year Mel C starts 2 become 1 I can hear and see it in my head' it wouldn't have been very dramatic or suspenseful.
Posted by: Piers Nov 29 2020, 04:20 PM
QUOTE(Mr.X @ Nov 28 2020, 07:56 PM)
I think she meant they were the first ones to lay down the voices and provide ground work for the songs with their singing. Remember the Forever producers were really complimentary of their voices and how they worked songs around Emma's voice as well.
Maybe that's what she meant? They lay down the songs once they are written and then the others jump on top?
That'd make sense. It'd also explain that Mel C Can't Stay Tonight demo that leaked ages ago (...though for the life of me, I can't imagine the girls singing that chorus together and the song seems to mostly make sense as a Mel C solo..)
Posted by: SouthernStar88 Nov 29 2020, 06:03 PM
Glad to see Mel back again, she's beautiful more than ever now
Posted by: schizo_spice Dec 1 2020, 06:15 PM
She's hosting the second Season of a show called The Fashion Hero.
Posted by: sammy01 Dec 1 2020, 06:30 PM
She don't half take some random jobs but glad to see her back working.
Posted by: Jay* Dec 13 2020, 04:02 AM
QUOTE(schizo_spice @ Dec 1 2020, 06:15 PM)
She's hosting the second Season of a show called The Fashion Hero.
Spice Girl Mel B is set to host the second season of model search competition “The Fashion Hero.”
Produced by BBC Studios-backed Rapid Blue (“X-Factor,” “Dancing With The Stars”), the show will be shot at South Africa’s Sun City Resort in the spring.
Representatives from four international brands will be appointed show judges and mentors and will ultimately select a winner to become part of one of their international marketing campaigns. One overall winner will become the face and ambassador of The Fashion Hero.
Mel B said: “Finally a show has come along that stands for everything I believe in. ‘Fashion Hero’ is my dream job because it’s not so much a television show as a movement.
“When I joined the Spice Girls there weren’t many singers in British girl bands who looked like me. I was different, we were all different and that was something we wanted to celebrate,” the singer continued.
“I have never fitted into any conventional mould and I wouldn’t ever want to. The whole world needs to learn that there is not one thing that makes someone beautiful, there are hundreds of things that makes someone special, beautiful and extraordinary and very few of them are skin deep.”
Caroline Bernier, president of Beauty World Search and executive producer of ‘The Fashion Hero,’ added: “[Mel B] is an inspirational figure and is sure to spice up the show with her positive attitude. Mel’s values of self-love and empowerment align perfectly with ours and we can’t wait to get started on production in South Africa next year.”
Posted by: spiceboy Dec 13 2020, 10:11 AM
Finally her dream show... bit of a kick in the teeth to America’s Got Talent 😂
Posted by: Mr.X Dec 13 2020, 10:50 AM
Melanie's solo career really is the saddest one for me, as she has so much talent wasted on these pointless endeavours...
Good luck to her, I hope she has fun and bring her a few more coins. But I do hope she gets to do better in the future.
Posted by: Chemistry Dec 13 2020, 02:56 PM
QUOTE(Mr.X @ Dec 13 2020, 11:50 AM)
Melanie's solo career really is the saddest one for me, as she has so much talent wasted on these pointless endeavours...
I know..
But at this point, I am just happy for her getting these kind of gigs. Which channel will broadcast this show?
Posted by: Mr.X Dec 13 2020, 04:09 PM
QUOTE(Chemistry @ Dec 13 2020, 02:56 PM)
I know..
But at this point, I am just happy for her getting these kind of gigs. Which channel will broadcast this show?
Aparently it is an Amazon Prime programme, so online.
Again, good for her that she is working again and keeping busy. Just wish she would be more selective of her projects, but each to their own...
Posted by: Chemistry Jan 4 2021, 04:38 PM
I've been reading some comments on Twitter that Mel mentioned on the radio today that Glastonbury has been cancelled this year I can't find the clip myself, but we can always trust on Mel for spilling things that no one knows about yet.
Posted by: schizo_spice Jan 4 2021, 05:32 PM
She really needs a padlock on that mouth of hers sometimes.
I think the best we can hope for this year is something to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Spice in November.
Posted by: Jay❄ Jan 4 2021, 05:33 PM
QUOTE(Chemistry @ Jan 4 2021, 04:38 PM)
I've been reading some comments on Twitter that Mel mentioned on the radio today that Glastonbury has been cancelled this year I can't find the clip myself, but we can always trust on Mel for spilling things that no one knows about yet.
Glastonbury co-organiser Emily Eavis has denied claims made by former Spice Girl Mel B that this year’s festival has been cancelled.
Speaking to Nihal Arthanayake on BBC Radio 5 Live, Melanie Brown said she had been told on Monday that the event was off, indicating that the girl band were due to appear in the festival’s Sunday evening “legends” slot as part of their 25th anniversary celebrations.
Brown said: “I know that Glastonbury’s been cancelled, so a lot of big stage performances are on hold again this year, which is sad but we’ve got to get this virus under control.”
Eavis swiftly tweeted that they had “no news this end”, and that announcements would come direct from the event’s organisers.
Posted by: tommie Jan 4 2021, 05:41 PM
Girlfriend has all the (inaccurate) gossip. x
Posted by: FestiveOdyssey Jan 4 2021, 05:59 PM
For what it's worth, I know KSI's manager and he's said to me it's cancelled unfortunately! Or at least unless there are some major developments, but they usually get ready for it quite early in the year.
Posted by: Jay❄ Jan 4 2021, 06:15 PM
So it seems that Glastonbury weren't ready to confirm this, and are perhaps annoyed that Mel B has talked about it before they gave official word on it? I wonder why they're wanting to hold off confirming the cancellation?
Posted by: tommie Jan 4 2021, 07:31 PM
QUOTE(Jay❄ @ Jan 4 2021, 07:15 PM)
So it seems that Glastonbury weren't ready to confirm this, and are perhaps annoyed that Mel B has talked about it before they gave official word on it? I wonder why they're wanting to hold off confirming the cancellation?
I think it's due to everything being up in the air and no one knowing how fast the vaccine will be out or if it even works.
Posted by: sammy01 Jan 4 2021, 10:26 PM
I'm assuming it is a money decision as to not reveal the cancellation. I mean Melanie C and Little Mix have tours scheduled for April/May and haven't been cancelled. It's all about money.
Posted by: vibe Jan 5 2021, 09:56 AM
Melanie C said that her team will be told in January what is going on regarding the tour.
Sod all to do with money.
I guess now its going to be delayed!!
Posted by: Mr.X Jan 5 2021, 11:06 AM
Of course it is about money. They are trying to ensure that people dont cancel their tickets and their insurance keeps things rolling. The later, the better for them but the worse for the fans...
It's obvious that things wont be back to normal by April in the UK, and probably not till end of Summer anyway, the way things are going here...
Posted by: dannjohn Jan 5 2021, 11:32 AM
screaming that media correspondant melanie b is at it again...
Posted by: vibe Jan 5 2021, 01:00 PM
QUOTE(Mr.X @ Jan 5 2021, 11:06 AM)
Of course it is about money. They are trying to ensure that people dont cancel their tickets and their insurance keeps things rolling. The later, the better for them but the worse for the fans...
It's obvious that things wont be back to normal by April in the UK, and probably not till end of Summer anyway, the way things are going here...
The will cancel when they have to.
Posted by: Voodoo Jan 5 2021, 01:05 PM
QUOTE(vibe @ Jan 5 2021, 03:00 PM)
The will cancel when they have to.
If anything, they will postpone the dates and not cancel.
Posted by: sammy01 Jan 5 2021, 02:33 PM
QUOTE(Mr.X @ Jan 5 2021, 11:06 AM)
Of course it is about money. They are trying to ensure that people dont cancel their tickets and their insurance keeps things rolling. The later, the better for them but the worse for the fans...
It's obvious that things wont be back to normal by April in the UK, and probably not till end of Summer anyway, the way things are going here...
Yep, it's well known in the industry no tour is going ahead till summer at least. Melanie C will know the tour is cancelled it is all about when it can be announced with regards to insurance.
Exactly the same with Glastonbury, Paul McCartney has already said he has been informed it's cancelled as I'm sure all acts have been told.
Posted by: vibe Jan 5 2021, 02:49 PM
QUOTE(Voodoo @ Jan 5 2021, 01:05 PM)
If anything, they will postpone the dates and not cancel.
Thats what i meant.
i have flights to milan but think i am able to move the flights if needed.
Posted by: Mr.X Jan 5 2021, 03:36 PM
QUOTE(vibe @ Jan 5 2021, 01:00 PM)
The will cancel when they have to.
Glastonbury has been cancelled, just not announced yet as they are preparing for the announcement behind the scenes including writing statements, having conversations with artists about the cancellation (which takes MONTHS as it is a huge line up), designing the announcement, working on press releases, negotiating with the insurance company, etc. All of this takes time. I know this, I work in theatre and events production.
With Mel C's tour they are probably rescheduling now, which also takes time, but they know by now that it is not going to happen in April. I mean, it would be very silly to do the tour in April at all, they know this.
It's well known by now that events like that and tours wont happen before the Summer in the UK at the very least. But they will announce delays and cancellations when they are ready to.
Posted by: WhoOdyssey Jan 21 2021, 01:00 PM
Glastonbury has now been officially cancelled
Posted by: Jay❄ Jan 21 2021, 01:25 PM
Mel B right now:
Posted by: Mr.X Jan 21 2021, 02:04 PM
QUOTE(Jay❄ @ Jan 21 2021, 01:25 PM)
Mel B right now:
This. Let's put some respect on Mel B for once!!
Posted by: sammy01 Jan 21 2021, 02:35 PM
I honestly think Mel B never lies she just jumps the gun. I can see them sending 4 messages about the possibility of say new music and Mel B is on a talk show the next day and says they are going to record new music hopefully. It then never materialises and she looks bad.
Posted by: Mr.X Jan 21 2021, 02:48 PM
QUOTE(sammy01 @ Jan 21 2021, 02:35 PM)
I honestly think Mel B never lies she just jumps the gun. I can see them sending 4 messages about the possibility of say new music and Mel B is on a talk show the next day and says they are going to record new music hopefully. It then never materialises and she looks bad.
Yeah I think this is true too.
Posted by: Piers Jan 21 2021, 04:41 PM
Uhhh. I think Mel B...mostly...jumps the gun. But there have been cases I'd consider...wishful thinking.
I can't remember the literal litany of things Mel B has claimed over the years. But I could give a few that I don't think were ever truly in the cards. In 2001, she claimed the group would continue releasing Forever singles in 2002. Knowing the behind-the-scenes of this now, this definitely wasn't ever true. After the first reunion tour, Mel claimed she was recording a song with Janet Jackson and that she'd join her on tour. Janet's reps basically laughed this off as absurd. (she also said she was working with Missy again during this time...but I'll accept that as more plausible) Then, there was Mel's claim that the full group would be at the royal wedding.
Anyway. A lot of it's harmless. Mel claiming GEM is about to choose and release their single may not...totally be in the pipeline, but it raises her profile for a moment. Nobody (except for fans) seem to remember those claims or hold her to it. But. Stuff like the Janet Jackson and royal wedding claims are so easily disprovable...I think its a little embarrassing. I also have to assume it's not great for the group dynamics that nothing can be discussed in private without Mel telling it to the world (...like the announcement to an entire stadium about an Australian tour)
Posted by: sammy01 Jan 21 2021, 04:52 PM
See you absolutely have no idea what went on behind the scenes about the Royal wedding.
Victoria 'I've been invited to the royal wedding' Simon 'It would be amazing press if you all went together, I'll put feelers out to see if that is possible' All the other girls 'yes please I'll be there if we can go'
This sort of thing could easily be emailed behind the scenes.
Posted by: spiceboy Jan 21 2021, 05:10 PM
QUOTE(sammy01 @ Jan 21 2021, 04:52 PM)
See you absolutely have no idea what went on behind the scenes about the Royal wedding.
Victoria 'I've been invited to the royal wedding' Simon 'It would be amazing press if you all went together, I'll put feelers out to see if that is possible' All the other girls 'yes please I'll be there if we can go'
This sort of thing could easily be emailed behind the scenes.
To be fair Mel did go on to say that she'd recieved the invitation from Buckingham Palace and then gave some bizarre description of it. I don't think she intends to lie I think she thinks that if she puts it out into the universe then it might actually happen.
Posted by: schizo_spice Jan 21 2021, 08:14 PM
I think she has no filter and often borderlines on delusional.
Posted by: Mr.X Jan 21 2021, 10:26 PM
QUOTE(sammy01 @ Jan 21 2021, 04:52 PM)
See you absolutely have no idea what went on behind the scenes about the Royal wedding.
Victoria 'I've been invited to the royal wedding' Simon 'It would be amazing press if you all went together, I'll put feelers out to see if that is possible' All the other girls 'yes please I'll be there if we can go'
This sort of thing could easily be emailed behind the scenes.
Oh yeah of course, I agree. I dont think she 'lies' about it, it might just be a miscomunication from how the group receives information and might get misconstrued. But yes she does always jump the gun, I think that is fairer...
But consider this....Remember she was going on about the group going on tour in 2014, 2016, etc, we found out eventually those things were being planned even though only Mel talked about it publicly then and everyone laughed at her, and then laughed again in 2018 when she wouldnt shup up about it and then it was real!
When she was talking about the group releasing more music into 2002 right? We dont know if internally some of the girls had talked about it. Maybe Mel herself and Victoria might have wanted to do some group stuff cos their solo bits werent exactly setting the charts on fire... And maybe Bunton was up for it too cos she has never said no to a reunion and was always very supportive of that album... Maybe there were some talks about it but then essentially it didnt happen...
Yeah she could chill on that front sometimes but actually if it wasnt for Mel B we wouldnt have much of a clue about plans going ahead behind the scenes... And it also always gives the girls press and attention whilst they are inactive as a band, and otherwise probably wouldnt be mentioned at all...
So, lets give Mel B a break and put some respect on her.
She is always a Spice from head to toe and you can tell she just wants it to happen all the time, she loves it and wants it to happen. Even Mel C in 2019 started to say 'Im gonna do it like Mel B and say it is going to happen and then it will happen' or something to that effect.
Posted by: sammy01 Jan 21 2021, 10:43 PM
Let's not forget Mel B mentioning the royal wedding caused the GH to rechart in the top 200 that week.
I often feel they could be a bit more proactive on their personal social media pushing Spice girls stuff. Mel C has gotten good at this lately and Emma too.
Posted by: Mr.X Jan 21 2021, 10:48 PM
QUOTE(sammy01 @ Jan 21 2021, 10:43 PM)
Let's not forget Mel B mentioning the royal wedding caused the GH to rechart in the top 200 that week.
See? Mel B is a queen
Posted by: Tombo May 13 2021, 05:56 PM
It’s was great to see Mel in the news today but really sad about the circumstances (talking about the abuse she went through in her last marriage). The film looked very emotional and distressing but an important film and hopefully it will help raise awareness and money for the charity
QUOTE
The film will be released by Women's Aid on social media and on Mel B's social media accounts on Friday.
There is more info in the article here and it was also just shown on the ITV news https://www.itv.com/news/2021-05-13/spice-girls-mel-b-opens-up-about-double-life-as-she-struggled-with-domestic-abuse
Posted by: Jay❄ May 13 2021, 06:24 PM
^ It's very harrowing, in that sense it's hard to watch A really well made video though and a very important message. Well done Mel (and very brave of her to do this this considering how painful it must be to relive her experiences through acting):
Posted by: McAndrew May 13 2021, 06:58 PM
Wow. Raw and beautiful. Proud of her for giving this truthful, heart-wrenching performance.
The interwoven scene of the dance and the violent struggle is particularly powerful.
Posted by: Spice Girls Net May 13 2021, 07:01 PM
Very intense. Must have been difficult for Melanie to film with it being so close to home for her. Very proud of her.
Posted by: spiceboy May 13 2021, 07:16 PM
Very powerful! Good on Mel for doing this!
Posted by: Tombo May 13 2021, 07:48 PM
Just seen the full video and basically echo all the other comments here. It’s very emotional and the statistic at the end was the scariest part. The dance scene really highlights the way these abusers act in public vs behind closed doors.
Posted by: Jay❄ May 14 2021, 02:45 PM
Nice to see Geri supporting Mel B’s film in her Instagram story
Posted by: spiceboy May 14 2021, 07:12 PM
QUOTE(Jay❄ @ May 14 2021, 03:45 PM)
Nice to see Geri supporting Mel B’s film in her Instagram story
I thought this too!
Posted by: sammy01 May 15 2021, 07:32 PM
The video was powerful and hit the point home hard.
Not the point of it but it reminds you how talented Mel is.
Posted by: spiceboy May 16 2021, 08:49 AM
QUOTE(sammy01 @ May 15 2021, 08:32 PM)
The video was powerful and hit the point home hard.
Not the point of it but it reminds you how talented Mel is.
Tbh I've never rated Mel B as an actor (none of the girls can really), but she is very good in this!
Posted by: Mr.X May 16 2021, 09:52 AM
Such a bold, powerful move. Mel is indeed a great actor when she puts her mind to it and is well directed.
It is really great all the work she does for the charity, she hasnt really stopped since 2018 and hope it has been a successful endeavour
Posted by: Spice Girls Net May 17 2021, 11:03 AM
Mel B is getting a lot of praise on Twitter in regards to her GMB interview talking about domestic violence which is a horrible thing for anyone to go through, I couldn’t imagine. But I’m glad there’s at least some positivity towards her interview, rather than people slagging her off just for the sake of it.
Posted by: Jay❄ May 17 2021, 11:23 PM
Glad that people are praising Mel because she's being brave, but also powerful with talking about this and spreading awareness. I'm very proud of her! Here's the full interview:
Posted by: vibe May 18 2021, 05:37 AM
She and the the girls should wrote an abuse survivor anthem.
This powerhouse of a women I get to call my best friend! Happy birthday @officialmelb (We are wearing g-strings, taking meetings, feeling music to the beats🎤) 💞
Oh yeh it’s ma birthday!!!Anyone who no’s me no’s I don’t really like this day one of the reasons being it’s my dads birthday the day before mine god rest his soul,but I feel he is looking down on me smiling as I have THE best birthday gifts today ever being surrounded by family and my 3 baby girls that are my world,thank you for all your birthday messages it really does mean ALOT now I’m off to go spend time with my nearest and dearest #greatful #familytime #birthday #bighair #raisingstrongwomen #lifeisgood
Posted by: Maz! May 29 2021, 06:21 PM
Love her and glad she has all her kids around for her birthday 🥳
Posted by: Alberto! May 29 2021, 11:21 PM
Lovely to see all the girls wishing her happy bday and to see her reunite with all 3 her kids.
Posted by: spiceboy May 30 2021, 07:45 AM
Nice to see all 4 (5 if you include Mel herself) have posted for her birthday!
Posted by: vibe May 30 2021, 09:07 AM
What lovely pics!
Posted by: -Jay- Jun 13 2021, 01:03 AM
https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2021-06-11/exclusive-mel-b-launches-domestic-abuse-poster-campaign-in-home-city-of-leeds - includes a video
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Mel B has launched a campaign to get posters put up on toilet doors, to help people spot the signs of an abusive relationship.
ITV Calendar joined the former Spice Girls member as she went out in her home city of Leeds to distribute the new posters and encourage businesses to put them up in toilet cubicles.
She also met with students from Leeds City College to discuss the new poster and how it might help young people identify unhealthy relationships.
Mel said: "It doesn't just happen overnight, the signs are very subtle, it happens very slowly and before you know it that person is taking control of your phone or commenting on what you wear or when you see your friends or how they don't think your friends are good for you so you don't end up seeing your friends too much.
"And that escalates into something that is completely isolating and completely abusive.
"From a young age, we're not taught these kinds of things, I know that if there was something like this in my school, or if the teachers spoke about it in an educational way then I would've been really aware of what a coercive, abusive relationship looks like."
In her book 'Brutally Honest', Mel B says her marriage to ex-husband Stephen Belafonte was emotionally abusive towards her.
ITV Calendar approached his representatives for comment but did not receive a response. However, he has repeatedly denied the allegations.
She added: "I love my work, I love performing with the Spice Girls and singing all those amazing songs.
"But then at home, I was just a piece of nothing, I was so humiliated every single day, talked down to and that just became quite normal and I was just a tiny little person, no confidence, no nothing because it had just been slowly chipped away at, without me even realising to start off with."
Mel is now a patron of Women's Aid and recently featured in a short film in support of the charity. 'Love Should Not Hurt' was directed by British composer Fabio D'Andrea and was created to raise awareness of the impact of domestic abuse.
Now she is working with Women's Aid again to promote the new poster, which she hopes will raise awareness and be another tool to help people who are living in unhealthy and abusive relationships.
According to the ONS, an estimated 1.6 million women experienced domestic abuse in England and Wales last year and one woman every four days on average is killed by a current or former partner.
The idea for this poster was inspired by a Health and Social Care student, who reached out to the singer and asked her to be a case study for a module on her degree course.
The student, who has to remain anonymous for her own safety, says she spent time in hospital during an abusive relationship and read Mel B's book while recovering on the ward.
She says it prompted her to leave her partner, change her life and enrol at university.
Mel B said: "We did a Q&A as part of her university presentation, and one of the questions she asked me was 'what is the next step for you?' and I said I'd like to get those signs of an abusive relationship - the ones that feature in my book - out there for more people to see.
"And then after our conversation, she just took it upon herself to ask her local pub to put a poster up in the toilets and I thought, 'I should do that too, we should do it together'."
She continued: "If this is up in the toilet, this is the only place that no one can get to you, your abuser who's waiting in the car of waiting in the pub or restaurant can't get to that space so you can sit in the bathroom and right there in front of you will be the key signs to help you identify if you're living in that kind of abusive, controlling, coercive relationship and you can get help."
Melanie's daughter Angel helped design the poster, which is now available to download from the Women's Aid website.
On a separate note, she really seems so much more like herself - very real and down to earth. I love that for her!
Posted by: spiceboy Jun 13 2021, 08:06 AM
Go Mel really using her platform for good. ❤️
Posted by: -Jay- Aug 15 2021, 11:01 AM
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSheniqFNNH/
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/08/13/21/46652729-9892115-Dig_On_his_Instagram_stories_Stephen_made_another_dig_at_his_for-m-23_1628886178027.jpg (this is a screen shot of an Instagram story)
Meh, I probably shouldn't pay any attention to this... but him taking cheap shots at Mel B, the mother of his child, on Instagram... ew. That's not a good look. He couldn't simply post pictures of himself and his daughter without the loaded captions? This must be so hurtful for Mel.
Posted by: spiceboy Aug 15 2021, 02:42 PM
Ewwww don't post him in here
Nor Daily Hate Mail links
Posted by: Mr.X Aug 15 2021, 02:46 PM
It's tactics for the courts and the public, basically. Horrific man. Even if that is true, why would you do that to your child?
At least Mel can visit/see her now. The fact that she was barred from seeing her own child for so long was disgusting
Posted by: -Jay- Aug 15 2021, 03:48 PM
QUOTE(spiceboy @ Aug 15 2021, 03:42 PM)
Ewwww don't post him in here
Nor Daily Hate Mail links
Hmm it's just a link to a screen shot, hotlinking their images won't benefit them per se
QUOTE(Mr.X @ Aug 15 2021, 03:46 PM)
It's tactics for the courts and the public, basically. Horrific man. Even if that is true, why would you do that to your child?
At least Mel can visit/see her now. The fact that she was barred from seeing her own child for so long was disgusting
That's something at least It's such a sad situation... but it's crazy to me that anyone could take his side. Social media posts like that demonstrate clearly what his character is like.
Posted by: spiceboy Aug 15 2021, 03:51 PM
I know he is vile, and he is more than happy to take Mel's money to pay for it all too which is even more vile!
Posted by: JaneJ Aug 15 2021, 05:31 PM
I hope Madison doesn't get affected mentally by this whole situation. Disgusting man.
Mel B to present special episode of Steph’s Packed Lunch as part of Channel 4’s Black to Front Project
Channel 4’s daytime show Steph’s Packed Lunch is to become Mel B’s Packed Lunch on Friday 10th September as part of the channel’s Black to Front Project.
Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown is making her live presenting debut as she takes the helm of the lunchtime show, which broadcasts live from Mel’s hometown of Leeds each weekday.
Mel will be joined by popular Steph’s Packed Lunch regular and football icon Chris Kamara, while resident chef Freddy Forster cooks up tasty treats in the iamspamspamami
Mel B’s Packed Lunch will feature celebrity guests, topical chat, real-life issues and consumer items. Plus, our regular lunchmates will be in the studio to join in the conversation and add different opinions and perspectives to discussions.
Melanie Brown said: "It's going to be a lot of fun and I can't wait to spice up lunchtime television. I'm also really proud to be part of Channel 4's Black to Front Project, that's something to really celebrate."
Mel B’s Packed Lunch will broadcast live from 12.30pm on Friday 10th September on Channel 4 and All 4. It is produced by Expectation in partnership with West Yorkshire-based Can Can Productions. The series editor is Vivek Sharma and the executive producers are Rebecca Papworth for Can Can Productions and Ben Wicks for Expectation. Jayne Stanger is commissioning editor for Channel 4.
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Notes to Editors:
The Black to Front Project is part of Channel 4’s ongoing commitment as an anti-racist organisation to improve Black representation on and off screen and drive long-term change in the industry.
On September 10th, Channel 4 will host an entire day featuring some of Channel 4’s biggest flagship shows – such as Celebrity Gogglebox, Countdown and Channel 4 News – all with Black talent and contributors at the forefront.
To ensure the Black to Front Project leaves a lasting legacy off-screen, Channel 4 has worked with production partners and The Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity to make meaningful commitments addressing specific challenges, barriers and issues identified in the industry. Read more about that here.
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"Former" but anyway, great for Mel!
Posted by: spiceboy Aug 26 2021, 07:50 AM
Don’t you former spice girl me!!!
But good for her hope it is successful.
Posted by: -Jay- Oct 19 2021, 12:36 PM
Spice Girl Mel B works with the Wellness App to record two intimate stories and help people fall asleep
Thats very random for Mel, not something you would expect her to be involved in but she is probably getting paid very well.
Posted by: -Jay- Nov 23 2021, 09:21 PM
Mel B is unfortunately getting bad press across all of the trashy tabloids, regarding the question she asked on An Audience with Adele TV special that wasn't aired... press going with the "Mel B axed from special due to inappropriate question that was an awkward-as-hell moment which no one laughed at" angle. Funny thing is that the day after the taping, it was reported what she'd said, but it wasn't given such a negative spin then.
A shame the press has it in for Mel at times. I don't get the angle they've gone with about her question being "inappropriate for a family show". Adele literally said, when she messed up the intro of a song - "start again, I'm shitting myself"... so family friendly...
Posted by: Voodoo Nov 23 2021, 09:24 PM
^ What was her question?
Posted by: Mr.X Nov 23 2021, 10:21 PM
The UK press, specially when it comes to black people:
Posted by: -Jay- Nov 23 2021, 10:29 PM
QUOTE
"She was tasked with asking a question about the best gift Adele had ever received but when the cameras were on her she said she felt silly asking it," a source told the publication.
“Then she made a joke and said she could answer the question for Adele and said it was a vibrator.
Posted by: Voodoo Nov 23 2021, 11:57 PM
Posted by: spiceboy Nov 24 2021, 01:45 AM
That is actually hilarious I love it Trust the press to put a negative spin on it, they really have it in for our girls.
Posted by: dancinqueen Nov 24 2021, 10:22 AM
QUOTE(Mr.X @ Nov 23 2021, 11:21 PM)
The UK press, specially when it comes to black people:
This. And I don’t see what she’s done wrong. That’s Mel B being Mel B - and that’s why we love her.
Posted by: sammy01 Nov 24 2021, 03:59 PM
Mel B is just an easy target for the UK press.
Posted by: Feel_The_Fever Nov 24 2021, 09:20 PM
Its a very Mel B thing to do to be fair to her, press just using the story to fill space.
Posted by: Chemistry Nov 25 2021, 12:23 PM
QUOTE(sammy01 @ Nov 24 2021, 04:59 PM)
Mel B is just an easy target for the UK press.
Of course. She is a black woman, so the British press is always going to try and tear her down.
Posted by: -Jay- Nov 30 2021, 01:30 AM
Not sure whether this picture was previously seen before this month, but it was shared in an article about photographs of the 1990s gay scene; Mel B out clubbing in 1992:
Quite a few news reports today stating that Mel B is to receive an MBE for her services to domestic violence charities. How fantastic if so a real achievement!
Posted by: vibe Dec 20 2021, 11:56 AM
Ive seen this online.
Posted by: Mr.X Dec 20 2021, 12:48 PM
I love Mel B and everything she has done both in music and in charity, specially her support for victims of sexual and domestic abuse, so good for her.
A part of me is still very disappointed that any of these girls will accept anything from the British monarchy and empire, so I am afraid I wont be able to celebrate this.
Posted by: Voodoo Dec 20 2021, 02:42 PM
QUOTE(Mr.X @ Dec 20 2021, 02:48 PM)
A part of me is still very disappointed that any of these girls will accept anything from the British monarchy and empire
Why?
Posted by: Mr.X Dec 20 2021, 07:06 PM
QUOTE(Voodoo @ Dec 20 2021, 03:42 PM)
Why?
It is a cesspit of racism and xenophobia built over centuries of colonialism, slavery and stealing across the world. Plus, it is the highest example of inequality in the UK, where the Queen is technically sovereign and everyone is her 'subjects'. Biggest con in the world and needs to be abolished. Traditionally, various paedophiles, mass murderers and dictators got similar honours or support from the monarchy. Plus, her p**** son Andrew is being investigated for paedophilia and the Queen is paying to protect him.
Sorry, but there is no excuse to support them in this day and age.
Posted by: sammy01 Dec 20 2021, 09:57 PM
Good for Mel B.
Posted by: Equinox8 Dec 21 2021, 03:08 AM
QUOTE(sammy01 @ Dec 20 2021, 09:57 PM)
Good for Mel B.
Agreed; so well deserved!
Posted by: -Jay- Dec 21 2021, 07:54 AM
Congratulations Mel B Very proud of her for being able to do something positive after suffering such a horrific few years & doing all she can to help others in the same situations. She’s very deserving
Posted by: lovaticuk Dec 21 2021, 08:04 AM
as a Proud Brit and Royalist, I am thrilled for Mel!
All the girls deserve this for their service to entertainment and culture anyway, but im so pleased she is getting recognised for her work for this important cause.
This was the moment I told my dad about my MBE.On his death bed I promised him I would leave my abusive marriage.He gave me that strength.He would be so proud,I’m overwhelmed honoured and grateful and as patron of @womens_aid I will NEVER stop this fight to #stopabuse #itsnotyourfault #silencenomore #womensupportwomen #speakup #youarenotalone #reclaimthesestreets #yourlifematters #togetherwearestronger
Posted by: The Kid JOSEPH Jan 4 2022, 06:40 PM
My MBE queen *.*
Posted by: vibe Jan 4 2022, 07:42 PM
❤️
Posted by: Feel_The_Fever Jan 4 2022, 08:18 PM
That picture and post says so much, it truly captures the heart.
Posted by: spiceboy Jan 5 2022, 08:07 AM
❤️
Posted by: Lukuzz Jan 5 2022, 08:22 AM
So lovely, so proud of her !
Posted by: Equinox8 Jan 6 2022, 12:45 AM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Jan 4 2022, 06:18 PM)
This was the moment I told my dad about my MBE.On his death bed I promised him I would leave my abusive marriage.He gave me that strength.He would be so proud,I’m overwhelmed honoured and grateful and as patron of @womens_aid I will NEVER stop this fight to #stopabuse #itsnotyourfault #silencenomore #womensupportwomen #speakup #youarenotalone #reclaimthesestreets #yourlifematters #togetherwearestronger
This is what we call "keeping it real". What a beautiful post, thanks for sharing this!
Ok so last night FINALLY”reunited with ALL my girls”hahaha🦄at the @stylistmagazine awards. So honoured to be given this award and thankful to everyone for their constant support and understanding NOW when I talk/cry/yell about domestic violence,but I no I wouldn’t have a platform like this without my spice girls.I remember this pic like it was yesterday literally yesterday ahhhh it made me smile deep in my heart seeing this when I was walking to my seat #spiceforce5🇬🇧 #neverforget #whereyoucomefrom #stopabuse @womens_aid
Congratulations to @OfficialMelB MBE for winning the ‘Fearless Future’ award at the ‘Stylist Remarkable Women’ Awards in London on Monday evening (March 14) 💙
Ok so last night FINALLY”reunited with ALL my girls”hahaha🦄at the @stylistmagazine awards. So honoured to be given this award and thankful to everyone for their constant support and understanding NOW when I talk/cry/yell about domestic violence,but I no I wouldn’t have a platform like this without my spice girls.I remember this pic like it was yesterday literally yesterday ahhhh it made me smile deep in my heart seeing this when I was walking to my seat #spiceforce5🇬🇧 #neverforget #whereyoucomefrom #stopabuse @womens_aid
Congratulations to @OfficialMelB MBE for winning the ‘Fearless Future’ award at the ‘Stylist Remarkable Women’ Awards in London on Monday evening (March 14) 💙 Well done Mel
I'm so proud of Mel B
Posted by: -Jay- Apr 17 2022, 09:35 AM
Mel B has been filming a new show with Ruby Wax and Emily Atack, a new travel series called Trailblazers:
She looks great, super happy for her and proud. She seems pretty in demand right now with the travel show and The Circle.
Posted by: spiceboy May 4 2022, 07:07 PM
She looks lovely so proud of her 😍
Posted by: Spice Girls Net May 4 2022, 08:02 PM
I also saw some clips of Melanie on Sky News. So proud of her
Posted by: vibe May 5 2022, 05:09 AM
What a moment for her!
Posted by: Chemistry May 5 2022, 07:02 AM
Such a beautiful moment for her and LOVE she was wearing a Victoria dress as well.
Posted by: Alberto! May 5 2022, 11:50 PM
Lovely to see Mel with Victoria and their mothers celebrating the MBE in both girl's stories
Surely a Spice combo I had wanted to see in a picture together in a long while.
Posted by: -Jay- May 6 2022, 02:46 AM
QUOTE(Alberto! @ May 6 2022, 12:50 AM)
Lovely to see Mel with Victoria and their mothers celebrating the MBE in both girl's stories
Surely a Spice combo I had wanted to see in a picture together in a long while.
It really is so lovely! I'm so glad that they're in a really good place with each other nowadays.
Here's the picture from Victoria's instagram:
https://i.imgur.com/wMml8op.jpg
On Mel B's instagram story she wrote: "Victoria not only fitted/dressed me and my adorable mother but Victoria didn't tell me she was actually going to be there fitting us. She made it soooo special me and my mother felt like princesses"
The story of Mel showing off her MBE with Feels So Good used in the story!
Very proud of her!
Posted by: -Jay- May 6 2022, 02:51 AM
AS he handed Mel B her MBE at Buckingham Palace, Prince William joked: “Now can you get the Spice Girls back together?”
But Mel, 46, stressed the gong was awarded for her work as patron of domestic violence charity Women’s Aid, not music.
The singer started with the charity after walking out of her abusive ten-year marriage to TV producer Stephen Belafonte, 46, in 2017.
After receiving her MBE yesterday, she told The Sun: “William told me, ‘I’m so delighted that it’s me giving you this’.
"And he asked, ‘Will you get the Spice Girls back together?’. I told him I was having dinner with Victoria that evening and he said, ‘Oh good, I’ll work on David then’.”
Mel was accompanied to the palace by her proud mum Andrea and the pair both wore dresses by Spice Girl turned designer Victoria Beckham.
Mel’s former bandmate even flew back from Miami so she could personally handpick their outfits.
But in true Scary Spice style, cheeky Mel quipped that she was “stark, b****ck naked” underneath the figure-hugging red dress. She said: “Victoria asked me, ‘Will you wear nipple covers? I said, ‘Why bother?’.
“When it came to the part where Prince William had to pin the MBE on, he asked for a female official to do it. I didn’t think I had that much cleavage on show!”
Melanie added how during her days as a Spice Girl, she often saw young Princes William and Harry as they were growing up.
She recalled: “I remember once around the time the Spice World movie came out we were helicoptered into Highgrove and we hung out with them, eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
“I think William thought I was receiving the MBE for being a Spice Girl, but I told him that it was for my work on domestic violence. He wanted to hear all about it.
“In fact, I felt guilty holding up the queue because we spent so long talking. I told him I had been in an abusive marriage for ten years, which I finally got out of by the skin of my teeth.
“And then I wrote a book all about it and became a patron for Women’s Aid. I told him that when I wrote my autobiography, people were not really talking about things like coercive control, that it was a dark, taboo topic. I explained that I often visit a women’s refuge in Leeds near where I live.
“He said, ‘That must be really fulfilling for you to talk about it and help women’. I said that my story is exactly like so many of the women’s I meet and that I managed to get out and survive.
“It was a really good conversation and a very special moment for me." The investiture was the first to be held at Buckingham Palace since the pandemic.
And Mel’s former Spice bandmates flooded her with congratulatory messages on her big day. Sporty Spice Mel C sent her a funny video, in which she cheekily wears a T-shirt with Mel B’s face on it and jokes they “must have sent the MBE to the wrong Melanie”.
She added: “I’m so proud of you. I know everything you have been through and to do so much for other people is amazing.”
Meanwhile, Emma Bunton congratulated Mel on her “Motor Boating Extreme” award and said: “Your strength and resilience is always something I have aspired to — and I get to call you my best mate.”
And Geri Horner sent a video in which she said: “What you have achieved is amazing. Hope you have an amazing time.”
Mel said it was especially poignant to take her mum as her guest to the palace because during her marriage to Belafonte he forced her to cut herself off from her family.
She added: “I missed my family for so many years and I just want them to be part of this moment. Although, my mum has driven me mad, panicking about not having a hat and worrying about her curtsey.
“She kept looking around in Buckingham Palace, saying, ‘It’s like Downton Abbey, I wish I had my phone’. But we’ve had a laugh.”
Mel was also accompanied to London by her 15-year-old daughter Angel, whose father is Hollywood actor Eddie Murphy, 61. But one family member she wishes could have been there to see her big moment is her dad, Martin, who died in 2017 following a long battle with bone marrow cancer.
It was during her last conversation with him as he lay dying that she vowed to quit her marriage. She said: “It was the last thing I said to him. I said I would leave my husband and did so within a month.
‘Girl Powerless’ “My dad worked in a factory all his life and I would have loved him to be here. When I received the letter to tell me I was being awarded an MBE, I drove to his grave and stood there over his headstone crying, telling him his daughter was getting an MBE.”
Mel is also mum to daughter Phoenix, 23 — who is currently filming reality TV show The Games — and ten-year-old Madison, her daughter with Belafonte.
When she reflects on the journey that brought her to Buckingham Palace, the former X Factor judge says there are times she can barely believe she survived.
She explained: “I have felt really calm and peaceful today, but really it is surreal. I was a Spice Girl, I stood for Girl Power. But then I met a man who swept me off my feet, who I thought was Prince Charming, but I became Girl Powerless.
“He destroyed my confidence, isolated me from my friends and family and made me feel useless and ugly, like I was better off dead.
“But I have had to work on myself and face up to what happened. It is tempting to block it out, but that does no good. I spoke up and got out of my horrendous marriage and have tried to help other women, and men, who are going through abuse.”
But the legacy of abuse still looms large in her life. She added: “There are so many triggers, like when I arrived in my hotel room the night before going to the palace, I had to close all the curtains because I always feel like someone could be watching.
“I am always looking around me. I used to flinch when people came to hug me.”
Mel began her campaigning work after being introduced to Women’s Aid by The Sun.
For the past 20 years we have campaigned on behalf of domestic violence survivors to change laws and safeguard funding for shelters and refuges.
Yesterday, The Sun threw a bash at London hotel Claridge’s in conjunction with Women’s Aid to celebrate Melanie’s MBE.
As patron of the charity, Mel has raised money and awareness, and even helped former Prime Minister Theresa May shape legislation to help survivors who face financial hardship.
She said: “An army of women stand behind me today. I accepted the MBE on behalf of them.
“This MBE is not for me, Mel B the Spice Girl, it’s for me, Melanie Brown, the mixed-race, working-class girl from Leeds who went through an abusive marriage then spoke about the very worst thing that happened in her life.”
Source: The S*n
Posted by: Spice Girls Net May 6 2022, 01:55 PM
The article really made me emotional. As a fan I couldn’t be prouder. Well done, Melanie
he last few days have been a true magical whirlwind,wow It’s taken me a while to process all this trust me but I wanted to be present and in the moment to appreciate and respect every single second,I can’t let this pass by firstly without thanking ALL the amazing army of women who have not only helped me and supported me but given me the strength to carry on,my story is your story Firstly a huge thank you to Teressa at @womens_aid and your entire team,the work you do saves lives,mine included even my 3am calls you calmed me down and made me feel safe Victoria Newton at @thesun the number 1 supporter from way back of Womens aid thank you for organising my MBE celebration with @womens_aid and your none stop determination to raising awareness and understanding for all the survivors of domestic abuse over the years. You introduced me to Women’s aid and I can’t thank you enough Thank you to my beautiful friend @victoriabeckham for dressing me and my mum making us feel like queens Thank you @prmariaboyle and @robinsonpelham for mine and my mums stunning diamonds and adding and extra sparkle to our day thank you to @ljstylist_ for our beautiful fascinators (last min i no sorry)provided by @judybentinckmilliner and finally my dearest unbelievable friend @louise.gannon97 who goes above and beyond every day,with out you Louise I don’t think I would of had the courage to even think about coming this far and none of this would of been possible without you my dear dear friend. This isn’t just for me it’s for every
My spice sister vic, I can’t thank you enough for your enormous generosity. Not only did you dress me and my mum but you surprised me by actually being there to fit us…….it was just soooooooo special thanks to YOU and your fabulousness Honestly what a perfect ending to a magical day you booked a lovley dinner together with both our families wowza 25 years of friendship and we still like each other haha I love you lots
My heart 😭🥰
Posted by: Mr.X May 6 2022, 10:07 PM
So nice to see them together
Posted by: spiceboy May 6 2022, 11:05 PM
Really really really nice to see them together, it was clearly Stephan that caused the problems for many years, so glad Mel has ditched him.
Posted by: Spice Girls Net May 6 2022, 11:24 PM
Seeing Vic and Mel together again in this way warms my heart so much
Posted by: vibe May 11 2022, 06:13 PM
Not sure if anyone is watching the games with Pheonix competing? Mel was in the crowd and Phoenix came second in the hurdles.
Trying to do our bit to help. Madi wanted to get everything on the list that is needed for the foodbank. Times are hard for so many. Families I grew up with are struggling. Remember to stop when you shop and think about others. Give what you can afford @asda #foodbank #thinkofothers #doyourbit #educateyourkidsearly #fighthunger #foodcrisis
Posted by: Mr.X Aug 6 2022, 08:51 PM
Love her!
Posted by: sammy01 Aug 7 2022, 06:22 AM
Who would have thought Mel B would end up the most rounded and best of the girls at this stage. She seems to be living a simple life now, passionate about her charities and doing her solo gigs that are no harm to anyone.
Posted by: spiceboy Aug 7 2022, 08:02 AM
QUOTE(sammy01 @ Aug 7 2022, 07:22 AM)
Who would have thought Mel B would end up the most rounded and best of the girls at this stage. She seems to be living a simple life now, passionate about her charities and doing her solo gigs that are no harm to anyone.
She lives in a 3 million pound mansion in one of the most expensive area of Leeds… lol simple life wish mine were that simple!
Posted by: Mr.X Aug 7 2022, 10:19 AM
Im glad she does a lot of charity and activist work, but yeah she does not live a 'simple life' at all, she is a multi-millionaire who travels the world for work and pleasure.
Posted by: Skankhunt43 Aug 7 2022, 10:28 AM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Aug 15 2021, 11:01 AM)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSheniqFNNH/
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/08/13/21/46652729-9892115-Dig_On_his_Instagram_stories_Stephen_made_another_dig_at_his_for-m-23_1628886178027.jpg (this is a screen shot of an Instagram story)
Meh, I probably shouldn't pay any attention to this... but him taking cheap shots at Mel B, the mother of his child, on Instagram... ew. That's not a good look. He couldn't simply post pictures of himself and his daughter without the loaded captions? This must be so hurtful for Mel.
What did she ever see in him?!
Posted by: -Jay- Aug 7 2022, 10:31 AM
Love is blind as far as the eye can see
Posted by: spiceboy Aug 7 2022, 12:46 PM
I’m not even justifying the cretin by looking at it
Posted by: sammy01 Aug 7 2022, 02:57 PM
When I say simple life, I mean she isn't walking red carpets for the opening of an envelope. Her bf isn't famous and private life is just that now private.
She seems to have struck a great balance between being famous enough to get solo jobs but also keep a nice simple life away from that.
I like her insta isn't constant adverts or selling something like so many celebs these days and even Emma and Mel C fall into doing those awful paid advert posts sometimes.
Posted by: -Jay- Sep 5 2022, 02:24 AM
Mel B is one of the guest judges on RuPaul's Drag Race UK Season 4! https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch6rvaXIoRT/?hl=en
Posted by: dannjohn Sep 6 2022, 04:21 PM
i pray there's a lip sync to Tell Me. I'm sorry but it's just undeniably a great song.
Posted by: spiceboy Sep 6 2022, 08:26 PM
QUOTE(dannjohn @ Sep 6 2022, 05:21 PM)
i pray there's a lip sync to Tell Me. I'm sorry but it's just undeniably a great song.
If Geri Emma and Melanie C didn’t get solo lip syncs then Mel B definitely won’t.
Posted by: Equinox8 Sep 6 2022, 08:31 PM
QUOTE(spiceboy @ Sep 6 2022, 08:26 PM)
If Geri Emma and Melanie C didn’t get solo lip syncs then Mel B definitely won’t.
That's a shame; wondering if they could have made that a condition for appearing as a guest judge. It's Raining Men or Bag It Up are campy obvious choices for lip sync songs.
Posted by: dancinqueen Sep 6 2022, 08:35 PM
I can see the Queens lip-sync to For Once In My Life That song is actually about empowerment and would work perfectly as a queer anthem
Posted by: Equinox8 Sep 6 2022, 10:28 PM
QUOTE(dancinqueen @ Sep 6 2022, 08:35 PM)
I can see the Queens lip-sync to For Once In My Life That song is actually about empowerment and would work perfectly as a queer anthem
Glamourising 'special forces' aka the military complex for Fox?....
This is objectively terrible, probably the worst thing she ever done
Posted by: -Jay- Sep 12 2022, 10:40 AM
From my perspective the premise of the show sounds far from glamorising what it is? It sounds like it’ll be hellish, and as far removed from their comfort zones as they could possibly be. Rather Mel than me!!
My main gripe is the association with Jamie Lynn, who I really don’t care for, but meh.
Mel was left in a difficult position financially after her divorce (at least relatively to a celebrity at her level). In recent years she’s clawed it back through doing numerous projects. Clearly she has to keep getting these good pay cheques from reality shows to maintain it. This is far from being the easiest one she could have signed up for.
Posted by: Mr.X Sep 12 2022, 11:55 AM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Sep 12 2022, 10:40 AM)
From my perspective the premise of the show sounds far from glamorising what it is? It sounds like it’ll be hellish, and as far removed from their comfort zones as they could possibly be. Rather Mel than me!!
My main gripe is the association with Jamie Lynn, who I really don’t care for, but meh.
Mel was left in a difficult position financially after her divorce (at least relatively to a celebrity at her level). In recent years she’s clawed it back through doing numerous projects. Clearly she has to keep getting these good pay cheques from reality shows to maintain it. This is far from being the easiest one she could have signed up for.
It literally uses the concept of the military and its tests on how strong/resiliant you can be as a frame. So yep, it is absolutely revolting, sorry.
Couldnt give two shits about Jamie Lynn, she's just a waste of space that will probably go to jail just like the rest of her family. But I *do* care about what Mel B does and will never support such tripe. She's a f***ing Spice Girl, multi-millionaire who gets millions a year on revenue from the group anyway, she doesnt need to do this crap and I wish she would have more morals on crap like this and the monarchy, but alas...
Mel's recent jobs and her MBE really have started to impact on how I see her. I love her as a Spice Girl, but I cant really support her as an individual celebrity any more. Guess Mel C is starting to take her place in my Spice rank now, ah...
Posted by: Rebel Sep 12 2022, 12:06 PM
After her lawsuits, let Mel B make some money since the tours are still on hold. She’s usually the one where the press reported that being on a verge of bankruptcy.
Posted by: -Jay- Sep 12 2022, 12:08 PM
I confess I really don’t understand the big deal about this, but anyway… I doubt I’ll watch anyway because it’s extra effort to find links & I don’t tend to have much of an interest in their reality TV endeavours anyway. I really doubt there’ll be a peep of controversy regarding her doing this. The UK has a reality show with pretty much the same concept.
I’m not a royalist but I don’t think it’s morally wrong for Mel to express sorrow & respect for the Queen, from the perspective of a UK citizen, which Mel B is. I’d rather her express how she genuinely feels, than hide it in order to appease a percentage of people.
Posted by: dancinqueen Sep 12 2022, 12:35 PM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Sep 12 2022, 12:08 PM)
I confess I really don’t understand the big deal about this, but anyway… I doubt I’ll watch anyway because it’s extra effort to find links & I don’t tend to have much of an interest in their reality TV endeavours anyway. I really doubt there’ll be a peep of controversy regarding her doing this. The UK has a reality show with pretty much the same concept.
I’m not a royalist but I don’t think it’s morally wrong for Mel to express sorrow & respect for the Queen, from the perspective of a UK citizen, which Mel B is. I’d rather her express how she genuinely feels, than hide it in order to appease a percentage of people.
I love how you put it. And as a POC and LGBTQ+ person, I’m glad when I see people being respectful to each other despite their different opinions.
But it hurts to see POC not taking her time to investigate before accepting anything that she’s offered.
Still, just to set the record straight, this is just my personal opinion.
Posted by: Mr.X Sep 12 2022, 01:11 PM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Sep 12 2022, 12:08 PM)
I confess I really don’t understand the big deal about this, but anyway… I doubt I’ll watch anyway because it’s extra effort to find links & I don’t tend to have much of an interest in their reality TV endeavours anyway. I really doubt there’ll be a peep of controversy regarding her doing this. The UK has a reality show with pretty much the same concept.
I’m not a royalist but I don’t think it’s morally wrong for Mel to express sorrow & respect for the Queen, from the perspective of a UK citizen, which Mel B is. I’d rather her express how she genuinely feels, than hide it in order to appease a percentage of people.
Oh I wasnt saying she is wrong for expressing her beliefs. She is free to do that, thankfully, and it is her right to do so. I just cant support it, due to my own beliefs and like others have said here, I too would wish she would be more educated on this.
Posted by: Jessie Where Sep 12 2022, 01:24 PM
Mel B doesn't really strike me as being the most educated or knowledgeable when it comes to these things, this interview clip alone suggests that to me:
Posted by: Mr.X Sep 12 2022, 02:05 PM
Urgh, yes this is why they were constantly taken to task on their feminism and girl power. Whilst there is no doubt they believe in the power of women, there was very to little nuance to their stance, at least from most of them. Mel is not a singular case in the group of course, much to the contrary.
Posted by: dancinqueen Sep 12 2022, 03:22 PM
QUOTE(Mr.X @ Sep 12 2022, 02:05 PM)
Urgh, yes this is why they were constantly taken to task on their feminism and girl power. Whilst there is no doubt they believe in the power of women, there was very to little nuance to their stance, at least from most of them. Mel is not a singular case in the group of course, much to the contrary.
It’s shocking though. Now I understand why Shirley Manson used to say that was a sort of commodified feminism and a gimmick (I don’t agree with that in full, but the girls don’t do anything to prove her wrong either).
Posted by: -Jay- Sep 12 2022, 05:04 PM
I know this is from 26 years ago, but Mel B said this in 1996 in the infamous Spectator interview.
Mel B: "We shouldn't be prejudiced against any background, poor or aristocratic. The middle class are the worst. We like the aristocrats'.
A lot can change in what a person believes in that time, but to me it shows that her looking up to people like the Queen isn't so surprising.
I kind of wish she'd been asked to expand on her sentiment about the middle class being the worst! Particularly as that seemed to immediately contradict her saying that people shouldn't be prejudiced to any background.
It is noted that in that same interview, Mel B and Emma expressed pro-European views, directly opposed to Victoria and Geri.
You know I've never actually read that Spectator interview in full, only extracts... I should do that just for the sake of interest.
Posted by: dancinqueen Sep 12 2022, 06:48 PM
Emma: “Do I think Margaret Thatcher is the original Spice Girl? Not particularly. My mum is.”
Mel C: “I think Margaret Thatcher is a complete prick.”
Victoria: “Personally I am a Tory.”
Mel B: “I’m an anarchist.”
Lizz: “It was my quote that Margaret Thatcher was a Spice Girl - she was the first advocate of Girl Powder Power.”
Posted by: Mr.X Sep 14 2022, 03:46 PM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Sep 12 2022, 05:04 PM)
I know this is from 26 years ago, but Mel B said this in 1996 in the infamous Spectator interview.
Mel B: "We shouldn't be prejudiced against any background, poor or aristocratic. The middle class are the worst. We like the aristocrats'.
A lot can change in what a person believes in that time, but to me it shows that her looking up to people like the Queen isn't so surprising.
I kind of wish she'd been asked to expand on her sentiment about the middle class being the worst! Particularly as that seemed to immediately contradict her saying that people shouldn't be prejudiced to any background.
It is noted that in that same interview, Mel B and Emma expressed pro-European views, directly opposed to Victoria and Geri.
You know I've never actually read that Spectator interview in full, only extracts... I should do that just for the sake of interest.
I never knew about those Mel B quotes. How can she say she was an anarchist and then say 'we like the aristocrats'???? That just sounds like a Tory to me lol
But it really says that I don't think Mel B is particularly interested in politics to know much about what those things mean. Just like her stance on girl power goes to shit when comforted with the nuances around 'powerful women' like Thatcher. She sees it as empowerment and women being powerful but not really any understanding on what those powerful women did in real terms. It's quite bad actually and just shows why so many feminists and progressive people shunned them.
Lets be honest, none of them would have read Karl Marx but all of them craved individual power and monetary gain, that's for sure. Whilst they always fought for women's rights and female solidarity, the pursuit of power can absolutely obfuscate the reality of class and social politics.
I do, however, expected a bit more from Mel B and Mel C whom both have showed a bit more nuance over the years around women's liberation and LGBTQ+ rights issues, but even those two I am not so sure it goes beyond the superficial.
Posted by: -Jay- Oct 5 2022, 01:57 PM
Posted by: Scary Spiceboy Oct 6 2022, 08:57 AM
I did LOL at the "I'm probably the last person you'd expect to see at a Tory conference and I can't quite believe I am here myself"
Posted by: Mr.X Oct 6 2022, 10:04 AM
Mel B hinting at the fact she is no dirty Tory!
Posted by: -Jay- Oct 8 2022, 01:05 PM
As well as Mel making waves with her tweet to Tory minister Conor Burns, this is also in the news today:
QUOTE
'Extraordinarily high earner' Eddie Murphy agrees to pay ex Mel B $35,000 in MONTHLY child support for 15-year old daughter Angel - two years after the Spice Girl filed for more financial help due to drop in her income
Court documents seen by DailyMail.com show Mel B and Eddie Murphy have modified their child support agreement for daughter Angel Iris Murphy Brown
The Spice Girl, full name Melanie Brown, filed court papers requesting additional financial assistance in October 2020, citing a change in income
The filing reveals Murphy, identified as an 'extraordinarily high earner', will now be required to pay $35,000 a month - an increase of $10,000
The payments are to be made retroactively beginning from October 2021 up until Angel turns 18 years old
Murphy was originally ordered to pay Brown $25,000 a month - $30,000 a year- in their paternity settlement in February 2009
$35k a month ($420k a year) sounds extreme for child support, though of course Eddie Murphy is incredibly rich (net worth $600m and he he reportedly makes $45m a year). It works out at less than 1% of his yearly earnings going towards Angel.
Posted by: Scary Spiceboy Oct 8 2022, 01:20 PM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Oct 8 2022, 02:05 PM)
As well as Mel making waves with her tweet to Tory minister Conor Burns, this is also in the news today: $35k a month ($420k a year) sounds extreme for child support, though of course Eddie Murphy is incredibly rich (net worth $600m and he he reportedly makes $45m a year). It works out at less than 1% of his yearly earnings going towards Angel.
Her school fees cost approximately that monthly payment for the year shows how much money they have going out.
Posted by: -Jay- Oct 9 2022, 12:44 AM
Spice Girl Mel B is left feeling 'violated' as pop icon calls in the police after WhatsApp 'hack' sees cryptocurrency scammers target her friends and family and request fake charity donations
Mel B had to call in police when Whatsapp hackers who sent her family and celebrity friends fake cryptocurrency donation requests left her feeling 'violated'.
Fraudsters pretending to be the former Spice Girl sent messages asking for donations to a charity project to 'help African children dying of thirst'.
The 47-year-old received messages from friends regarding the 'charity' project she was involved in, alerting her to the hacking.
Those who received the Whatsapp messages were asked to donate in cryptocurrency and the scammers even said Bitcoin could be bought for a cheaper prince as a reward for contributing.
A source close to Mel B told the Sunday People that the star knew nothing of the scam and felt 'violated and angry' that someone would go to those lengths and claim it was in the name of charity, as she is known for her charitable ventures.
The messages were sent from a contact called Scary Spice MelB and included kisses and emojis to attempt to trick people into believing it was really her.
The hackers asked people to send money via Binance - a digital currency exchanging site which was subject to a hacking scandal last week that put £500million of investors' money at risk.
The source added that the cryptocurrency angle raised suspicions as 'Mel isn’t involved in any of that. It’s not her scene,' adding that the charity part however did make the scam plausible
Posted by: -Jay- Oct 22 2022, 10:41 PM
Mel B is engaged according to the newspapers! Congratulations to her!
2 BECOME 1 Mel B is engaged to Leeds hairdresser who restored her faith in men after 10-year domestic violence hell
MEL B is engaged to wed boyfriend of three years Rory McPhee after he proposed this week.
The Spice Girl, 47, was “overwhelmed” when the Leeds-born hairdresser popped the question on Wednesday.
And sources close to the star told how Rory, 36, and a long-time family friend, has helped repair the damage done by her ten-year domestic abuse hell.
Brave Mel has spoken openly about how she was left “powerless” during her decade-long relationship with abusive ex-hubby Stephen Belafonte.
But one source told how Rory, who she began dating in 2018, has restored her trust in men.
Rory got down on one knee at luxury country hotel Cliveden House, Berks, to propose.
He presented her with a £100,000 pear-shaped, champagne-coloured diamond ring, encrusted with smaller champagne diamonds set on a rose gold band.
The source said: “Mel is so happy and this is such a big deal for her because she has been though such a lot.
“It has taken a huge amount for a man to get her to trust him and to believe in love again.
"Rory is from her home town Leeds, he’s known her for years. He’s the absolute opposite of so many of the guys she had relationships with.
“He is a really normal, down-to-earth guy, with good morals who has worked incredibly hard to build his own business and a family business. He’s not flash, or interested in the limelight.
“He comes from a loving family and his best pal is Mel’s cousin, Christian Cooke. He has really taken the time to understand what she’s been through. He is madly in love with her.
"It’s incredibly hard to trust a man after years of abuse but he has shown her men can be caring, trustworthy and reliable.”
According to friends, mum-of-three Mel “burst into tears” when Rory got down on one knee.
One said: “She said ‘yes’ straight away. But it was incredibly emotional because after everything she has been through, it was a really big moment for her.”
According to sources, her eldest daughter Phoenix, 23, was the first person to be told — and the rest of her family and all four Spice Girls were let in on the news. The source said: “All the Spice Girls have met Rory and like him.”
Mel, who was awarded an MBE this year for her work as Patron of domestic violence charity Women’s Aid, has been dating Rory since 2018 when they met up through friends in LA — when they were pictured with top make-up artist Renee Camilleri.
But the relationship became more serious the following year, when Mel returned to the UK for the 2019 Spice World Tour.
Rory, who works in the family hair salon in Leeds and his own salon, Lab Hair, accompanied her to Brooklyn Beckham’s Palm Beach wedding earlier this year. And they were at an awards do in Manchester in May.
The source went on: “The ring is gorgeous and Mel is thrilled with it. She hasn’t stopped smiling.”
The old-fashioned proposal is a stark contrast to her previous relationship.
Belafonte, whose real name is Stephen Stansbury, insisted on getting married in Las Vegas within six weeks of meeting — and Mel had to buy both wedding rings.
Mel, who has appeared as a judge on The X Factor and America’s Got Talent, was left on the brink of suicide after the “reign of terror” at the hands of her ex, who she divorced in August 2018.
A second source last night told how Mel’s family and friends are “over the moon” she has found happiness with Rory.
They said: “They feel — as she does — that she is safe with him, and what more could they ask for?”
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Mel B's daughter Phoenix describes mum's split from Stephen Belafonte as 'best day ever'
Mel B's daughter Phoenix recalls the difficult time growing up in her household and the relief she felt when her mum left husband Stephen Belafonte, as she spoke to Kate Ferdinand
Mel B's eldest daughter Phoenix has shared her perspective on her mum's relationship with Stephen Belafonte.
The 22 year old opened up about the subject to Kate Ferdinand on her podcast Blended, where she discussed knowing the household wasn't "ideal", and her joy when the Spice Girl left her husband after a decade.
Phoenix recalls the day it came to an end, telling Kate: “One day we were like, today is the day, and we left. That was the best day ever!"
She expanded: "It was a lot of weight lifted off our shoulders."
Phoenix, whose father is Mel B's former husband Jimmy Gulzar, reveals that she never felt fully settled around their partnership.
She said: "Right away, when my mum got married I realised that it wasn’t an ideal household. I didn’t feel my most comfortable."
Describing the household in further detail, she said: “It was a very controlled environment, there were a lot of rules and that is something I wasn’t used to, so everything was happening very fast-paced.
"Instead of me asking the questions about what is going on, I would go play basketball, separate myself or just hang out with my mum. I didn’t try to grow a relationship with my mum’s partner.”
Phoenix describes how things got worse after a few years of her mum and Stephen being together, due to Mel B's busy work schedule.
Reflecting on her experience Phoenix told Kate: “I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone, but I’m happy it’s something I could get through.”
She added that she coped with the situation by talking with her mum, and consoling herself. “Might sound a little weird but I would talk to myself," she explained. "No one really went through what I went through so I would rant, say how I feel and in a way I’d feel better."
The mother and daughter both now work with Women's Aid to combat domestic abuse, with Mel B being awarded an MBE for her work.
Prince William presented her with the honour, and during an interview with Good Morning Britain Mel B revealed he was very engaged in conversation with her.
“We had a really good catch up and a really good chat and I was just like erm, you’ve got lots of people waiting and he just carried on talking. He’s so lovely," she recalled.
The occasion was made even more special as her bandmate Victoria Beckham designed the dress that she wore for the day.
Stephen and Mel B split in 2017, and share daughter Madison, ten. Mel B also has daughter Angel, 15, who's father is Eddie Murphy.
I hope it goes well, she has a habit of rushing into these things.
Posted by: Scary Spiceboy Oct 23 2022, 07:39 AM
A friend of mine is friends with him and she has really good things to say about him and his family so fingers crossed.
Posted by: dancinqueen Oct 23 2022, 09:48 AM
We love you Melanie. Kisses xx VB
Posted by: Rodent-boy Oct 27 2022, 09:10 PM
Mel B was on Drag Race UK tonight!
Posted by: -Jay- Oct 27 2022, 09:27 PM
She was enjoyable! Saying Pixie Polite’s runway outfit was similar to Emma Bunton’s Olympics outfit though… the one thing they have in common is being pink lol.
Posted by: sammy01 Oct 27 2022, 09:36 PM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Oct 27 2022, 10:27 PM)
She was enjoyable! Saying Pixie Polite’s runway outfit was similar to Emma Bunton’s Olympics outfit though… the one thing they have in common is being pink lol.
Still better than listing your top 5 Spice Girls songs and only remembering 4 of them.
Posted by: -Jay- Oct 27 2022, 09:48 PM
QUOTE(sammy01 @ Oct 27 2022, 10:36 PM)
Still better than listing your top 5 Spice Girls songs and only remembering 4 of them.
just about!
Posted by: Chemistry Oct 28 2022, 06:21 AM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Oct 27 2022, 09:27 PM)
She was enjoyable! Saying Pixie Polite’s runway outfit was similar to Emma Bunton’s Olympics outfit though… the one thing they have in common is being pink lol.
Haha, yes, I was like "in what way?"
She did do a good job, though. I liked how honest she was with her feedback.
Posted by: -Jay- Nov 1 2022, 01:54 PM
Mel B was on the most recent episode of Celebrity Gogglebox with Ruby Wax!
Which reminds me, I wonder what's happening with their travel TV show with Emily Atack? It's been 7 months since they were filming it.
Posted by: Mr.X Nov 1 2022, 07:10 PM
Oh forgot about that! Will catch up with it now, thanks for reminder
Mel was also on RuPaul Drag Race UK, and it was a bit lukewarm to be honest with you... Her insistance on one of the contester's looks being like Emma at the Olympics was a bit... And her comments on the contest who did the Lil Nas X impersonation was a bit lame lol
Thought she could have been a bit more funny to be honest ah
Posted by: Matttttt Nov 8 2022, 10:48 AM
Random thought, but do we know why Mel ‘performed’ Word Up sitting in that chair every time? lol was she injured or anything during that time?
Posted by: Mr.X Nov 8 2022, 10:50 AM
QUOTE(Matttttt @ Nov 8 2022, 10:48 AM)
Random thought, but do we know why Mel ‘performed’ Word Up sitting in that chair every time? lol was she injured or anything during that time?
Exclusive: Mel B reveals Spice Girls' emotional reaction to Rory McPhee's proposal in first joint interview The couple have shared details on their proposal
In a world exclusive interview and photoshoot with HELLO! magazine, Mel B has confirmed her engagement to Rory McPhee.
The Spice Girl and her hairdresser fiancé speak for the first time to the magazine about their love, revealing all the details of Rory's romantic proposal and the diamond engagement ring he presented her with.
"For the first time in my life, I'm engaged to a beautiful, honest person who makes me feel protected, nurtured and so loved, and I want to savour that," Mel shares.
And she says her fellow Spice Girls have all given Rory their seal of approval. "Emma [Bunton] cried, so did Mel C," she says of telling them she was engaged.
"All of them were delighted for us and said, 'We love Rory, he's amazing' and they've all sent congratulations cards. I do care about their opinion and it's really special to me that they like Rory so much, because they've never liked any of my boyfriends and they've been quite clear about that.
"They were actually pushing me towards Rory for ages before the two of us became romantic, but I'd say to them, 'It's not like that; he's just a really good friend who makes me feel safe," continues Melanie.
Talking about the moment Rory popped the question, in the grounds of Cliveden in Berkshire, she tells the magazine: "We went for a walk around the grounds with the dogs before dinner and on the way back, Rory suddenly said, 'I'm going to go back to the room and put the fire on'. I didn't think anything of it, but I did get this funny feeling in my stomach. Then, as I walked through the door, he got down on one knee."
"I was so nervous, my lips were trembling," Rory says. "I'd spent ages writing down all these things I wanted to say, but when it came to it, I just babbled."
"Oh no, it was lovely, what you said," Melanie responds. "He told me he loved me, that I was his best friend and that he wanted to be with me for the rest of our lives."
To read the full article, pick up the latest issue of HELLO! on sale now.
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Very happy for her, she deserves to be lucky in love. Lol at the other girls telling her they disliked all the previous men in her life.
That looks really horrible and unnecessary tbh, so I will avoid it like a f***ing plague
Posted by: -Jay- Nov 12 2022, 05:50 PM
The Trailblazers show with Emily Atack and Ruby Wax begins on BBC Two on Monday 28th November! Thanks to Maz for letting us know
Posted by: Mr.X Nov 12 2022, 05:52 PM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Nov 12 2022, 05:50 PM)
The Trailblazers show with Emily Atack and Ruby Wax begins on BBC Two on Monday 28th November! Thanks to Maz for letting us know
awesome!
Posted by: -Jay- Dec 2 2022, 12:34 PM
I really enjoyed the first episode of Trailblazers! A lot of fun. Anybody else watching it?
Posted by: -Jay- Dec 4 2022, 12:36 PM
Mel B says James Corden is one of the “biggest dickhead celebrities” She also listed Geri Horner and Jessie J
Mel B has called James Corden one of the “biggest dickhead” celebrities she’s ever met, alongside Geri Horner and Jessie J.
During an appearance on Channel 4’s The Big Narstie Show set to air on Friday (December 2), the former Spice Girl was asked by co-host Mo Gilligan: “Who is the biggest dickhead celebrity you’ve ever met?”
In response, Mel B said: “So, there’s a few. James Corden, Geri Halliwell, Jessie J and me!”
Asked about the inclusion of her former bandmate Geri, Mel said: “I know, I love her to bits but she’s really f***ing annoying.”
As reported by MailOnline, Big Narstie probed further on the addition of Corden. “I think you always have to be nice to the people that you work with whether it be production, camera guys, sound, lighting,” Mel said.
“We all work for the same thing, so you should always be nice and he hasn’t been very nice.”
Obviously she was being jokey about Geri because in the Trailblazers show she also said that Geri and Emma were her two favourite Spice Girls!
I wonder what her problem is with Jessie J? A few years ago Mel called her "overrated"!
Posted by: Mr.X Dec 4 2022, 12:43 PM
I mean, she isn't wrong
Also, Mel is not the first person to say that about Jessie J. It is well known she isn't a very nice person, same with James Corden. The inclusion of Geri is funny (though accurate) and to be honest, she did include herself too.
I would take this as a funny moment and nothing to do a scandal about (which is exactly why the British press has made a scandal over it, they are pros at this).
Posted by: Piers Dec 4 2022, 11:49 PM
I feel it says something about the public perception of James Corden that the article/headline targets him the most. Typically, I think the article would focus on Mel listing Geri as a dickhead celeb. But Corden's not in the best space PR-wise...and so he ends up with the focus.
As to the comment about Geri...I mean, look. I'm not new here. I know Mel's saying that in jest about a friend. I also know how things will often get intentionally misrepresented in articles. But. There is part of me that thinks Mel's been doing this long enough that...maybe she should realize listing Geri as a dickhead could be low hanging fruit for the press? I guess Mel's gonna Mel...
Also. I'm late to the party on this, but I just watched that Special Forces TV show trailer. Fox really is just throwing every idea at the wall to see what sticks. I don't figure this has any hit potential. It's not a reality competition with people getting voted off week-to-week. Participants can quit...and the special forces team can ask them to leave. But it's not a competition in the traditional TV sense. So. What's the point of watching? Just to see Jamie Lynn Spears be miserable in training? The trailer's not even playing to the comedy of celebs doing this stuff. What a dud.
I don't think this is a very good match for Mel. She's got a natural athleticism...but I can't imagine her reacting well to aggressive people giving her demands. She's barely featured in the TV trailer...and considering what good TV/a soundbite machine she is...I'm guessing she doesn't last long. At first glance, she doesn't appear to be pushing to this show on social media.
Posted by: -Jay- Dec 22 2022, 11:47 AM
I finished Trailblazers this week. I really enjoyed the series overall, it was pretty inspiring! Definitely one of the most interesting projects Mel B has been involved in. Has anybody else watched it?
On another note, this randomly appeared on my YouTube recommendations. Does anyone know when this was filmed? It's definitely when she was still with Stephan.
Posted by: spiceboy Dec 22 2022, 09:01 PM
Does he predict her divorce or is he just another ridiculous charlatan? lol
Posted by: Mr.X Dec 22 2022, 09:35 PM
QUOTE(spiceboy @ Dec 22 2022, 09:01 PM)
Does he predict her divorce or is he just another ridiculous charlatan? lol
Probably a charlatan lol
Posted by: -Jay- Dec 30 2022, 10:26 AM
Phoenix has had some really successful TikTok videos, with her dressing up in some of Mel B's 90s looks!
https://www.tiktok.com/@phoenixisphoenix/video/7180383413566836010 (almost 850k likes and 8.6m views) https://www.tiktok.com/@phoenixisphoenix/video/7180708851510021422 (almost 163k likes and 1.9 views) https://www.tiktok.com/@phoenixisphoenix/video/7181881010521460014 (over 55k likes and almost 943k views)
Spice up your life album cover - 1997 💋. 📸 @edwiggery
and it was reported on by a lot of sites: Daily Mail, The Mirror, The Sun, People, Page Six, Fox News, Eonline, News24, Parade, Today
Go Phoenix! It's crazy to realise that Phoenix is now older than Mel B was back then...
Posted by: Piers Jan 1 2023, 04:13 AM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Dec 22 2022, 06:47 AM)
On another note, this randomly appeared on my YouTube recommendations. Does anyone know when this was filmed? It's definitely when she was still with Stephan.
Oh my gosh. This guy. Lol. Tyler Henry. The episode with Mel B is from 2017. I remember watching when it was new.
A friend of mine is a huge fan of Tyler, and she *haaates* my take on him. Ha! But. Yeah. I don't get why people believe him at all. He's a celebrity medium...who sits in front of very, very famous people and claims to not know them...while making 'readings' of things the public very widely knows. In Mel's case, he's telling her she may work with people from her past but not all of them. Well, obviously he's referring to the Spice Girls. And the fact that all members of the group weren't on board reunion hopes around that time isn't exactly...events happening behind closed doors. But we're supposed to believe him because he claims to not know Mel B? Important to note that both Mel and Tyler were in the Kardashians' orbit then. Just sayin...
I think the height of it for me was when Tyler did a reading for LaToya Jackson and said a bunch of stuff about Michael's death that the world knows. This isn't an obscure event.
But. Anyway. That's a whole tangent for ya there. If anyone's a Tyler fan and thinks I'm waaay off on my perception of him, just know a very good friend of mine has already raked me over the coals for knocking his ability. lol.
Posted by: spiceboy Jan 1 2023, 11:04 AM
QUOTE(Piers @ Jan 1 2023, 04:13 AM)
Oh my gosh. This guy. Lol. Tyler Henry. The episode with Mel B is from 2017. I remember watching when it was new.
A friend of mine is a huge fan of Tyler, and she *haaates* my take on him. Ha! But. Yeah. I don't get why people believe him at all. He's a celebrity medium...who sits in front of very, very famous people and claims to not know them...while making 'readings' of things the public very widely knows. In Mel's case, he's telling her she may work with people from her past but not all of them. Well, obviously he's referring to the Spice Girls. And the fact that all members of the group weren't on board reunion hopes around that time isn't exactly...events happening behind closed doors. But we're supposed to believe him because he claims to not know Mel B? Important to note that both Mel and Tyler were in the Kardashians' orbit then. Just sayin...
I think the height of it for me was when Tyler did a reading for LaToya Jackson and said a bunch of stuff about Michael's death that the world knows. This isn't an obscure event.
But. Anyway. That's a whole tangent for ya there. If anyone's a Tyler fan and thinks I'm waaay off on my perception of him, just know a very good friend of mine has already raked me over the coals for knocking his ability. lol.
I think all mediums are a load of bullshit anyway. My aunties friend claims to be one and I said go on the do me and her response was “you think this is all a load of rubbish” to which I said well I was pretty clear on that earlier… then she said “you’ve always felt like you don’t fit in or belong anywhere and seek approval to be who you are”… I mean I am the only deaf person in a hearing family and I am also gay of flipping course I always felt I didn’t fit in give me something that isn’t based on using clues in my life! She refused to do anymore after that lol.
Posted by: Piers Jan 1 2023, 04:49 PM
QUOTE(spiceboy @ Jan 1 2023, 06:04 AM)
I think all mediums are a load of bullshit anyway. My aunties friend claims to be one and I said go on the do me and her response was “you think this is all a load of rubbish” to which I said well I was pretty clear on that earlier… then she said “you’ve always felt like you don’t fit in or belong anywhere and seek approval to be who you are”… I mean I am the only deaf person in a hearing family and I am also gay of flipping course I always felt I didn’t fit in give me something that isn’t based on using clues in my life! She refused to do anymore after that lol.
Ha! Well. I tend to agree with you about mediums.
It's really an old carnival trick...the way this works. But people (and very high profile ones at that) seem to believe it wholeheartedly.
Besides the Spice Girls prediction, let's take the other thing he told Mel. Someone close to her died from a form of cancer...perhaps a kidney, liver, or pancreatic cancer. Here's the deal with that. Let's say for the sake argument, he really didn't know who Mel was (I don't buy that...but...just for the sake of argument...) He can tell two things immediately. She's a Black woman...and she's European. What mediums often do is a matter of regional/racial/age-related statistics. Cancer rates are disproportionately higher in Black people...so...there was a fairly good chance Mel lost someone in the family to cancer. So, why was he specific to it being a kidney, liver, or pancreatic cancer? One possibility is that smoking tends to remain more common in Europe over the US. What's a risk of smoking? Pancreatic cancer.
I won't deny there's a certain skill in being able to keep up with so many statistics related to age/race/region to make this work. I just wish people viewed medium readings a bit more like magicians. There's just something ghoulish to me about someone making a fortune out of pretending to talk to people's dead relatives.
Posted by: Voodoo Jan 20 2023, 08:11 PM
Mel was on The View, promoting Special Forces:
Posted by: -Jay- Jan 23 2023, 04:59 PM
^ I wonder how that show has been doing in terms of ratings and reviews? I doubt I'll make the time to watch it!
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A new Mel B article in The Independent regarding the TV show Happy Valley and domestic violence, but it's behind a paywall for me:
‘Glassy-eyed and battered – I was that woman’: Mel B on how Happy Valley’s domestic abuse storyline resonates with her own trauma Former Spice Girl Mel B felt her blood run cold as she watched the latest series of Sally Wainwright’s BBC drama. As someone who experienced domestic abuse in her own marriage, she writes about why it’s vital for mainstream shows to explore the subject
I didn’t watch Happy Valley when it first came out. I was living in Los Angeles back then. I actually only got around to it very recently – just a week before the new series arrived. A close friend had recommended it to me but I always thought it looked too bleak. But I went back to the first series and within minutes I was hooked. It is absolutely bleak as hell but it is also brilliant in a way that only northern British drama can be. You get the rain, you get the backdrop flitting between beautiful countryside, concrete council estates...
Mel B has told of the embarrassing exchange she suffered with Prince William - all thanks to a dress designed by her good friend Victoria Beckham.
The Spice Girl, 47, revealed how her bandmate Posh, 48, designed her dress for an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace last year, and joked that Victoria purposely stitched her up when it came to her outfit.
Speaking on Live with Kelly and Ryan, Mel detailed how she wore a dress with a 'big slit across the chest' where her medal should have been pinned, adding: 'Victoria knew. She knew!'.
Explaining how her friend had designed the dress, Mel said: 'It was quite embarrassing, actually, because I didn't realise the medal goes here on your chest.
She continued: 'Victoria [Beckham] designed my dress for the occasion. And she put a big slit right there. And I was like "Oh, sorry!"
Co-host Ryan Seacrest congratulated Mel on the MBE (The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for services to charitable causes and vulnerable women.
Mel B went on to discuss her prior meetings with the royals, revealing that the Prince Of Wales' greeting was very casual.
She said: 'I've met the royals before, so he was like, 'Oh, hey, how are you?'
Mel then recalled a meeting when Prince William and his brother Prince Harry were 'very young' at Buckingham Palace with the Spice Girls.
She said: 'When we flew into Buckingham Palace, this is when they were really young, the royals. We had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, without the crust, which was a little bit posh for me.
'So then I decided, 'Can we go into the kitchen and just make some toast and jam?' So we did that too.'
Posted by: Voodoo Jan 23 2023, 06:24 PM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Jan 23 2023, 06:59 PM)
A new Mel B article in The Independent regarding the TV show Happy Valley and domestic violence, but it's behind a paywall for me:
‘Glassy-eyed and battered – I was that woman’: Mel B on how Happy Valley’s domestic abuse storyline resonates with her own trauma Former Spice Girl Mel B felt her blood run cold as she watched the latest series of Sally Wainwright’s BBC drama. As someone who experienced domestic abuse in her own marriage, she writes about why it’s vital for mainstream shows to explore the subject
I didn’t watch Happy Valley when it first came out. I was living in Los Angeles back then. I actually only got around to it very recently – just a week before the new series arrived. A close friend had recommended it to me but I always thought it looked too bleak. But I went back to the first series and within minutes I was hooked. It is absolutely bleak as hell but it is also brilliant in a way that only northern British drama can be. You get the rain, you get the backdrop flitting between beautiful countryside, concrete council estates...
Here is the rest of the article:
QUOTE(The Independent)
... and cosy cottages. You get the accents, the blend of cultures, the families sitting down for their “tea” in the evenings. Not their “dinner” like they do in the South.
And that’s before you get to the acting. Sarah Lancashire is off the charts. I know Sergeant Catherine Cawood – she’s as real as any of the women I grew up with on a council estate in Leeds. She’s flawed, she’s tough, she’s morally solid and she doesn’t give a s*** what people think of her (except the people she loves). I am in awe of all of the actors, from James Norton and Siobhan Finneran to Con O’Neill and Ishia Bennison. I want to name every one of them because, like with Catherine, I know all these people. They are completely true to life, true to my northern soul.
But season three is the one that is everything to me. I went through a 10-year abusive marriage where, at my lowest, most desperate and isolated, I took to drink and drugs to self-medicate. I wrote about it in my book Brutally Honest, because no one talked about it. This coping mechanism may add to the shame, the guilt, the powerlessness, but more than 60 per cent of abused women self-medicate because their lives are hell. So when Mollie Winnard (as Joanna) appeared on screen – glassy eyed and battered, with low-level terror seeping from her pores – this wasn’t a woman I knew, this was a woman I was.
Given the opportunity by a concerned Catherine to open up about her abusive husband, Joanna said nothing. She sat in silence, just like I did when a lovely policeman – PC Cunningham – sat at my bedside in 2014 after I took an overdose. He knew something was seriously wrong. He gently asked me questions about my relationship, but could not get me to talk. So there I am, nine years later, sitting on my sofa back in Leeds and willing Joanna to talk but knowing that she won’t because life – abuse – is not that simple. It’s not the way things go. Those scenes made my blood run cold because they were so unbelievably real that I wanted to call the writer and creator, Sally Wainwright, to tell her how much this had moved me.
When I wrote my book in 2017, most publishers turned it down because they didn’t think domestic abuse was a palatable subject. Talking about being a mother, self-medicating, the bleak reality of daily life – it was all too much. When it was finally published in 2018, Teresa Parker from the domestic abuse charity Women’s Aid told me it was the most real account of abuse she had ever read. It was real. My story – regardless of its glamorous veneer – was the same story as every woman like Joanna. I became their patron and I now talk in conferences at parliament, about the epidemic of violence against women in our society. I have been given an MBE, not for being a Spice Girl, but for the work I have done with Women’s Aid. I have used my voice.
In the past five years, we have started to properly talk about domestic abuse. I am so proud to be one of the voices breaking the silence. And Sally Wainwright should be too. The abuse isn’t the main storyline in Happy Valley, it’s sewn in as a bright red thread in the stitching of the story. And that’s exactly as it is in life. It’s the grit in the road, the crack in the ceiling.
Joanna dies a violent death on the floor of her iamspamspamami– not literally at the hands of her husband but undeniably because of the relentless cycle of abuse she was in. It horrified me when I saw it. But it also made me feel strangely triumphant that Winnard’s portrayal is so truthful, and that the reality of domestic violence has become an integral part of mainstream drama. We are talking. We are watching. Thank you Happy Valley.
‘Happy Valley’ airs on Sunday nights at 9pm on BBC One
Melanie Brown – Mel B – is patron of Women’s Aid
Posted by: spiceboy Jan 23 2023, 07:02 PM
That's a great article, hard hitting and powerful.
Posted by: -Jay- Feb 22 2023, 10:55 PM
Mel B is a judge on Season 2 of Queen of the Universe:
QUEEN of the U NI VERSE 🎶 Y’all aren’t even READY for the season we have in store, divas #QueenOfTheUniverse Season 2 starts streaming FRIDAY MARCH 31 on @paramountplus 👠
Posted by: -Jay- Feb 28 2023, 11:04 PM
QUOTE
But Mel B, sitting alongside Sir Keir at a Woman’s Aid panel, demanded that he adds a sixth mission: tackling domestic violence.
“If you’re going to talk about your five main things you have to add another one on that is specifically domestic abuse,” she said.
As the audience laughed at her sustained questioning, she said: “You may well laugh but I’m being bloody serious.
“It needs to be a standalone thing that we get educated on from the ground up, inside out.”
Mel B, a patron of the Women’s Aid charity, described herself as a “big fan” of Sir Keir’s and expressed confidence that he will win the next general election.
But she warned him: “Keir, I’m holding you to everything. I will come after you, I will.
“For every survivor and everybody’s voice out there that can’t be heard I am their voice – so watch out. Because I really do like you.”
Posted by: -Jay- Mar 12 2023, 10:37 AM
Pop Star Melanie Brown has said she would not call the police to report domestic abuse because it might not be taken "seriously".
Mel B, one of the Spice Girls, told BBC Newsnight she would only report it if "the whole entire system" of justice was reformed by the government.
She became a campaigner for domestic abuse victims after leaving what she described as an abusive relationship.
She said police needed better education about spotting "tell-tale signs".
"I wouldn't [call the police], because I wouldn't know if they would take it seriously," said Ms Brown, who became a patron for domestic violence charity Women's Aid in 2018.
She called for a "redo" of the justice system, and said police officers needed better education about spotting the "tell-tale signs" that someone is a victim of abuse.
"Like if I'm living here and I want to report it to the police, I don't know if I can trust the police. I don't know if they're going to take my allegations seriously," she said.
Speaking to Victoria Derbyshire, Ms Brown described domestic abuse as an "epidemic" and praised those who collected statistics on it which allows victims to "openly talk".
"When I brought my book out, nobody wanted to talk about it. It was like a taboo topic. It was something that everybody knows about but nobody talks about it."
She said it was impacting "younger and younger" people" including "kids as soon as they start some kind of intimate relationship".
"It's just your average person who just wants to be loved and cared for," she added.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64803529
Posted by: Equinox8 Mar 12 2023, 03:04 PM
Soul crushing. Every single time I hear Mel B speak about what she lived through, while hiding it from so many people. So proud of her for making a consistent effort to help save others from this madness.
Posted by: spiceboy Mar 12 2023, 09:53 PM
Bless her, a very powerful interview there she came across very well. My heart goes out to her.
Posted by: -Jay- Mar 30 2023, 03:36 AM
This has to be about Mel B and Stephen, right? https://www.tiktok.com/@anjuliemusic/video/7215330921837333802
I can 100% see it being true, and I bet Mel B wasn't even aware the session happened. Sounds like the songwriter was being taken advantage of. Thought it was interesting that she was asked to sing with the same style/accent. The Myah Marie of it all...
Mel's career could be very directionless in those years. Every now and then I remember her 2010 documentary series "Mel B: It's a Scary World" and it culminating with a performance of Lip Lock. A song featuring Ludacris, who at that point was still achieving #1 albums and hit singles in the US. That was a pretty big coup. So... why not release the song?
In a way I'm kind of surprised in hindsight that she eventually got her act together, albeit very briefly, to release For Once in My Life and go as far as make a music video and promote it. Wild that that is almost 10 years ago. I wish she'd get the bug again to make some solo music. With the right team she could stand to do reasonably well with an album considering how the UK albums chart operates these days (multiple formats, front loaded first week sales). The 2019 Spice Girls tour showed she's still a fantastic performer... a pity that it seems she only interested in performing if it's with the Spice Girls.
Posted by: Voodoo Mar 30 2023, 06:51 AM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Mar 30 2023, 06:36 AM)
Thought it was interesting that she was asked to sing with the same style/accent. The Myah Marie of it all...
This also explains why FOIML does not even sound like her.
Posted by: spiceboy Mar 30 2023, 12:41 PM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Mar 30 2023, 04:36 AM)
This has to be about Mel B and Stephen, right? https://www.tiktok.com/@anjuliemusic/video/7215330921837333802
I can 100% see it being true, and I bet Mel B wasn't even aware the session happened. Sounds like the songwriter was being taken advantage of. Thought it was interesting that she was asked to sing with the same style/accent. The Myah Marie of it all...
Mel's career could be very directionless in those years. Every now and then I remember her 2010 documentary series "Mel B: It's a Scary World" and it culminating with a performance of Lip Lock. A song featuring Ludacris, who at that point was still achieving #1 albums and hit singles in the US. That was a pretty big coup. So... why not release the song?
In a way I'm kind of surprised in hindsight that she eventually got her act together, albeit very briefly, to release For Once in My Life and go as far as make a music video and promote it. Wild that that is almost 10 years ago. I wish she'd get the bug again to make some solo music. With the right team she could stand to do reasonably well with an album considering how the UK albums chart operates these days (multiple formats, front loaded first week sales). The 2019 Spice Girls tour showed she's still a fantastic performer... a pity that it seems she only interested in performing if it's with the Spice Girls.
I can't see it, what is the link about?
Posted by: Mr.X Mar 30 2023, 04:37 PM
QUOTE(spiceboy @ Mar 30 2023, 12:41 PM)
I can't see it, what is the link about?
It is a tik tok video where the person mentions she was asked to be in a recording session as a writer with a huge producer for a singer (the description does match Mel) and then when she got there, it was the boyfriend of that singer calling the shots and telling the producer and the girl what to do, and Mel B never turned up so the boyfriend asked her to sing like Mel for the recording. She eventually left as it didnt feel right at all.
Posted by: spiceboy Mar 30 2023, 10:24 PM
How strange, just goes to show what a weird controlling creep the guy clearly was.
I always found it bizarre though that Mel had recorded (or possibly not in this case) a song with Ludacris who was a fairly big deal at the time and it literally went nowhere except as a teeny tiny snippet in the show!? Then the Australian record contract when she was on all those shows, went nowhere at all? It was all very weird.
Posted by: sammy01 Mar 31 2023, 06:57 PM
I've always just assumed she was controlled by him and those TV shows, judging slots, endorsements were easy money compared to music and that would be all he cared about.
I'm sure Mel would have loved to explore music more. Now it just isn't viable as those offers to do music just aren't there anymore.
SO, TELL US WHAT YOU WANT, WHAT YOU REALLY, REALLY WANT...
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Supporting women is at the core of everything Pour Moi does. Michael Thomson CEO and founder of Pour Moi says “We believe that everybody should feel confident and empowered to be unapologetically themselves. That’s why we couldn’t resist sharing this journey with Mel B. Charismatic, confident and a true inspiration to many women, Mel B embodies everything our Own Your Confidence campaign stands for. It was a no brainer to have her, and her family help us spread the feel your fabulous vibes!” Introducing ‘Mel B’ AKA ‘Scary Spice’, her daughter Phoenix Brown and mother Andrea Brown, the multi-generational Brown family are here to show you how to feel confident, comfortable and fabulous in whatever you’re wearing.
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Speaking of the campaign, Mel B says “I love that Pour Moi’s philosophy is about feeling fabulous, feeling confident and celebrating women of all shapes, sizes and ages. It’s about being real, not being edited and not taking ourselves too seriously. I love that it was a collaborative experience – it was my idea to include my mum and my daughter at the shoot and we had so much fun!” I love their lingerie and swimwear and how it makes me feel. It means a lot to me that Pour Moi are making a donation to Women’s Aid to support the campaign.”
As part of the campaign Pour Moi and Mel B both agreed on no airbrushing on all campaign imagery. Pour Moi are also making a donation to Women’s Aid, of which Mel B and her daughter Phoenix are proud patrons.
Posted by: Mr.X May 31 2023, 09:44 AM
OK I dont much care about this campaign but GOOD ON Andrea to be taking part too! She looks fab
Posted by: -Jay- May 31 2023, 11:01 AM
Wow, that’s a stunning photoshoot! Mel and her mum and daughter all look great. The photos of Mel reminds me of when Geri had a clothing range for Next (such a far cry from the Geri of today lol).
It’s been years now but it still makes me happy that Mel and Andrea healed their relationship.
Can Mel B put her energies into a third solo album next please, thank you!
Mel B had some amazing outfits she was so cool in the group in a way the other 4 weren’t so much.
Posted by: dancinqueen Jun 4 2023, 12:53 PM
Mel B style >>>> the others
Posted by: Sacred3 Jun 6 2023, 10:37 PM
Throughout their hey day Mel B always stood out to me. I really thought she would be the biggest solo star of them all. What a shame that did not happen as she had so much potential.
Posted by: Mr.X Jun 6 2023, 10:46 PM
Mel B had such an incredible run of singles initially! The album being what it was, really sank it together with the awful release strategy.
She was done wrong, although some of it is her own fault (by her own admission!).
Posted by: Sacred3 Jun 8 2023, 11:13 PM
I want you back and Word up were her only good songs. The rest of her stuff, well for me, was cheap and awful!
Two Spice Girls promoting Padam, get that Kylie love out there girls!
Posted by: Voodoo Jun 15 2023, 09:08 AM
QUOTE(spiceboy @ Jun 15 2023, 11:55 AM)
Two Spice Girls promoting Padam, get that Kylie love out there girls!
Two? Who's the other one?
Posted by: ___∆___ Jun 15 2023, 09:46 AM
QUOTE(Voodoo @ Jun 15 2023, 10:08 AM)
Two? Who's the other one?
I think Mel C posted it from one of her DJ sets?
Posted by: Jessie Where Jun 15 2023, 10:49 AM
QUOTE(Sacred3 @ Jun 9 2023, 12:13 AM)
I want you back and Word up were her only good songs. The rest of her stuff, well for me, was cheap and awful!
I mean, was 'Word Up' not cheap and awful? That was like the ultimate misfire coming months after a #1 (I don't rate 'I Want You Back' in all honesty either, but it did the business for her as a debut)
'Feels So Good' dwarfs all of these easily! (although of course it's dated now)
Posted by: Mr.X Jun 15 2023, 11:23 AM
QUOTE(Jessie Where @ Jun 15 2023, 11:49 AM)
I mean, was 'Word Up' not cheap and awful? That was like the ultimate misfire coming months after a #1 (I don't rate 'I Want You Back' in all honesty either, but it did the business for her as a debut)
'Feels So Good' dwarfs all of these easily! (although of course it's dated now)
Word Up is the best cover of any Spice release and definitely Spice Top 10! It is not cheap and awful in the slightest. In fact, it is even better than the original and Mel made it sound like her own.
The fact it went to #14 at the time was seen as a failure was stupid (although the lack of proper promo didnt help for sure!), where so many popstars didnt event break Top20 with the majority of their singles and were seen as a success.
Her run from I Want You Back, Word Up, Tell Me and Feels So Good is the strongest opening run of any of the solo Spices in terms of quality of music. Shame the rest of her output didnt match it or even got close to any of those songs.
And no, I dont think Hotter would have been successful either, definitely not as it is. It screams 'Excellent Album Track' but to be a single it needed to have a different mix and possibly a feature. Maybe with Sisqo since they worked together back then?
DAMN this made me want to listen to those tracks again
Posted by: tommie Jun 15 2023, 11:26 AM
QUOTE(Jessie Where @ Jun 15 2023, 10:49 AM)
'Feels So Good' dwarfs all of these easily! (although of course it's dated now)
Feels So Good should've easily been her first single - it sounds like a proper "big pop star" song from around that time. I could see why people would dislike Tell Me though; it is sort of tacky to sing blatantly about your ex like that (even if they're a no-good hustler). I like both songs though, but it does feel like a screw up not to just go for Feels So Good and Hotter as the one-two punch.
Posted by: -Jay- Jun 15 2023, 11:54 AM
Personal opinion of course but Word Up wasn't cheap sounding or cheap to have organised, what with it being a Timbaland production. He had produced for Aaliyah, Missy Elliott, Genuwine, Destiny's Child and Jay-Z in advance of working with Mel B!! Considering it awful is another matter of course, but for the time the production was current, and unlikely to have come cheap.
I also don't think cheap can be levelled at most of Hot tbh. It's a well produced album! It's just that a lot of the songs are a bit meh regardless.
Loved seeing Mel's Padam Padam instagram story btw *.*
Posted by: Voodoo Jun 15 2023, 12:05 PM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Jun 15 2023, 02:54 PM)
Personal opinion of course but Word Up wasn't cheap sounding or cheap to have organised, what with it being a Timbaland production. He had produced for Aaliyah, Missy Elliott, Genuwine, Destiny's Child and Jay-Z in advance of working with Mel B!! Considering it awful is another matter of course, but for the time the production was current, and unlikely to have come cheap.
Not to mention the fact that Virgin spent a fortune producing TWO expensive music videos for Word Up. She clearly had the required budget to succeed. They believed in her potential.
Posted by: -Jay- Jun 15 2023, 12:09 PM
If only it had worked out, it deserved more than #13 (well, #14 is what was revealed at the time)! I feel like the production/first video was maybe a bit too mature for the young fanbase, perhaps. If the second video had been *the* video all along, then maybe it would have got better airplay?
Posted by: Voodoo Jun 15 2023, 12:25 PM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Jun 15 2023, 03:09 PM)
I feel like the production/first video was maybe a bit too mature for the young fanbase, perhaps.
I think Melanie's Goin' Down video suffered the same problem.
Wasn't it banned / restricted to late hours by some music television stations due to its "violent content" and "offensive language"?
Posted by: spiceboy Jun 15 2023, 12:26 PM
QUOTE(tommie @ Jun 15 2023, 12:26 PM)
Feels So Good should've easily been her first single - it sounds like a proper "big pop star" song from around that time. I could see why people would dislike Tell Me though; it is sort of tacky to sing blatantly about your ex like that (even if they're a no-good hustler). I like both songs though, but it does feel like a screw up not to just go for Feels So Good and Hotter as the one-two punch.
I agree with this! Tell me is a catchy track but was such a misfire with the whole bitter ex vibe to it.
Posted by: vibe Jun 15 2023, 12:57 PM
Regarding Word Up , which had amazing production and two amazing videos. It deserved better. Looking at the chart when released , a very tough week, i wonder if it would have reached the top 10 if released at a different time?
Regarding Tell Me as lead single, it did well, and was used for the publicity, so it did make sense.
Hotter should have been a single.
My order 1. Feels So Good 2. Hotter 3. Tell Me 4. Lullaby
Regarding the album it has 5 good tacks the rest = skip !!
Posted by: Mr.X Jun 15 2023, 01:23 PM
QUOTE(Voodoo @ Jun 15 2023, 01:25 PM)
I think Melanie's Goin' Down video suffered the same problem.
Wasn't it banned / restricted to late hours by some music television stations due to its "violent content" and "offensive language"?
Was it restricted in the UK?... jesus the country has always been so prude/conservative... what exactly was violent about the video, Melanie's hair style? moronic people
Mel B's Word Up also suffered from lack of promo, and not the least cos the few times she performed, she did sat down on a couch
like, what is this hunny?
Posted by: -Jay- Jun 15 2023, 02:02 PM
Relaxed Spice *_*
Posted by: Matttttt Jun 15 2023, 02:26 PM
Do we know why she sat for all of the Word Up performances? Was it ever said anywhere? lmao
Posted by: vibe Jun 15 2023, 02:46 PM
^ she was pregnant
Posted by: tommie Jun 15 2023, 03:03 PM
QUOTE(vibe @ Jun 15 2023, 02:46 PM)
^ she was pregnant
Her daughter was born in February 1999; these performances were in June 1999.
Posted by: Voodoo Jun 15 2023, 05:27 PM
QUOTE(___∆___ @ Jun 15 2023, 12:46 PM)
I think Mel C posted it from one of her DJ sets?
Perhaps it was in one of her stories, but here is a https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ctg9JhsvZ36/ someone in the audience has posted.
Posted by: vibe Jun 15 2023, 07:02 PM
QUOTE(tommie @ Jun 15 2023, 04:03 PM)
Her daughter was born in February 1999; these performances were in June 1999.
Oh damn !!
Posted by: Big Fat Padam Jun 15 2023, 07:59 PM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Jun 15 2023, 03:02 PM)
Relaxed Spice *_*
!!!
👁👄👁
Word Up is a great song! She needed to do more promo for it, and rrlease in a quieter week. I don't think it's a no.1, but an easy top 5 with promo and a good relesse schedule
Posted by: dancinqueen Jun 16 2023, 12:32 PM
QUOTE(Voodoo @ Jun 15 2023, 05:27 PM)
Perhaps it was in one of her stories, but here is a https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ctg9JhsvZ36/ someone in the audience has posted.
Sporty Gay Icon recognizing Aussie Gay Icon. It’s a gay icons’ world and we’re just living in it
Posted by: Equinox8 Jun 16 2023, 06:26 PM
QUOTE(spiceboy @ Jun 15 2023, 12:26 PM)
I agree with this! Tell me is a catchy track but was such a misfire with the whole bitter ex vibe to it.
How, exactly, is singing about a lived experience a misfire?
Posted by: spiceboy Jun 16 2023, 07:27 PM
QUOTE(Equinox8 @ Jun 16 2023, 07:26 PM)
How, exactly, is singing about a lived experience a misfire?
The song itself is fine, but releasing it as the first single when she was already being typecast as a "bitch" in the media was a huge misfire. She did nothing to wipe out that image.
Posted by: Equinox8 Jun 17 2023, 01:15 PM
QUOTE(spiceboy @ Jun 16 2023, 07:27 PM)
The song itself is fine, but releasing it as the first single when she was already being typecast as a "bitch" in the media was a huge misfire. She did nothing to wipe out that image.
OK
Posted by: ___∆___ Jun 17 2023, 01:52 PM
QUOTE(dancinqueen @ Jun 16 2023, 01:32 PM)
Sporty Gay Icon recognizing Aussie Gay Icon. It’s a gay icons’ world and we’re just living in it
^^ all this!
Posted by: spiceboy Jun 17 2023, 03:08 PM
QUOTE(Equinox8 @ Jun 17 2023, 02:15 PM)
OK
Glad you understand.
Posted by: Sideout Jun 17 2023, 03:08 PM
It's interesting to wonder how Mel B's album would have done if the singles and album release would have gone
Feels So Good - February 2001 Hot album - February 2001 Hotter - May 2001 Tell Me - August 2001
Posted by: tommie Jun 17 2023, 03:17 PM
QUOTE(Sideout @ Jun 17 2023, 03:08 PM)
It's interesting to wonder how Mel B's album would have done if the singles and album release would have gone
Feels So Good - February 2001 Hot album - February 2001 Hotter - May 2001 Tell Me - August 2001
It would've been an interesting scenario for sure - I do think Tell Me is a good song, but I just don't like launching the era with a "bitter ex" song. I think it's more suitable for when people have already bought into someone as an artist. The fact that Feels So Good did so well after the album flopped makes me think it could've done better as the lead single.
Posted by: Equinox8 Jun 17 2023, 11:30 PM
QUOTE(spiceboy @ Jun 17 2023, 03:08 PM)
Glad you understand.
Sure, Jan.
Posted by: dancinqueen Jun 27 2023, 02:52 PM
Where is Mel B? What is she doing? I hate so much she gave up music..
Posted by: Mr.X Jun 27 2023, 03:01 PM
She's doing shitty TV shows unfortunately... the latest, Queen of the Universe or whatever it is, has just been cancelled... Reality TV is so lame, jesus...
I hate that she is doing these instead of music.
Posted by: dancinqueen Jun 27 2023, 04:10 PM
QUOTE(Mr.X @ Jun 27 2023, 03:01 PM)
She's doing shitty TV shows unfortunately... the latest, Queen of the Universe or whatever it is, has just been cancelled... Reality TV is so lame, jesus...
I hate that she is doing these instead of music.
Same. I’d love at least a duet with Melanie C. Never Be The Same Again needs to be performed once with Mel B. She could rap and sing in the chorus!
I miss her really. She’s a great dancer and she can sing.
Posted by: sammy01 Jun 27 2023, 09:51 PM
QUOTE(Mr.X @ Jun 27 2023, 04:01 PM)
She's doing shitty TV shows unfortunately... the latest, Queen of the Universe or whatever it is, has just been cancelled... Reality TV is so lame, jesus...
I hate that she is doing these instead of music.
Well Queens of the universe has been cancelled so even though jobs are getting harder to come by.
Posted by: Voodoo Sep 11 2023, 09:14 PM
Posted by: Sacred3 Sep 11 2023, 10:37 PM
She looks good.
Posted by: Equinox8 Sep 11 2023, 11:01 PM
QUOTE(Sacred3 @ Sep 11 2023, 10:37 PM)
She looks good.
^ Agreed! And I'm glad the interviewer commented about how Mel looks like a "woman in love" -- she's got this glowing smile about her. If it were solely up to Mel B, we'd have everything we've been wanting from the SGs and then some.
Mel is looking great! As ever I won't be watching though.
Posted by: Voodoo Oct 1 2023, 06:01 PM
Deluxe edition of Brutally Honest will be published early next year:
"In this brand new, updated and expanded edition written with Louise Gannon, Mel brings her story up to date. With her trademark honesty, she tells the unfiltered story of piecing herself back together, dealing with trauma and new heartbreak whilst becoming a champion for survivors of abuse, performing once more with the Spice Girls and receiving her MBE from Prince William".
Ooohhh good for her! If she goes into more details about the 2019 tour and the various cancellations since then, I will probably buy it! But if it is a 'and then I got my girls together and we toured' without any more details, I wont bother lol
I gave my copy of the original to a local charity shop before I left the UK
Posted by: sammy01 Oct 2 2023, 09:59 AM
We are at the point of them recycling solo stuff now, two different NS vinyls, My happy place vinyl, new edition of Brutally Honest, even Geri's doing kids books again and recycling a leaked song from years ago for it. I'm not going to say they are creatively bankrupt but man they are verging on it.
Posted by: Babyboy Oct 2 2023, 03:49 PM
QUOTE(sammy01 @ Oct 2 2023, 09:59 AM)
We are at the point of them recycling solo stuff now, two different NS vinyls, My happy place vinyl, new edition of Brutally Honest, even Geri's doing kids books again and recycling a leaked song from years ago for it. I'm not going to say they are creatively bankrupt but man they are verging on it.
I agree with you. Always the same stuff.
Posted by: -Jay- Oct 2 2023, 05:00 PM
Re-releasing an autobiography over 5 years after original release is quite a surprising move. Is that quite rare? Usually I notice autobiographies getting a paperback release a few months after the hardback, either with a slight update to it or no update at all. But I haven’t noticed any get re-released after many years. Interesting decision from Mel and the publishers.
I wonder if they’ll leave all the previous chapters untouched, and add a new chapter, or chapters. Her book is all over the place in terms of jumping around the timelines of events, so I’m not sure whether they’d try and add new stuff within the book, or make it more straightforward and add it all to the end.
Hopefully new artwork is a given, something superior to the original art. Her image nowadays is more recognisably Mel B than back then. I wonder if it’ll still be credited to “Melanie Brown”? I know the book did well in the first place, but I feel like “Mel B” on the cover would be beneficial over Melanie Brown.
I would say this is more interesting than Emma & Melanie C reissuing vinyl in different colours!
Posted by: DoggySwami Oct 2 2023, 05:08 PM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Oct 2 2023, 06:00 PM)
Re-releasing an autobiography over 5 years after original release is quite a surprising move. Is that quite rare? Usually I notice autobiographies getting a paperback release a few months after the hardback, either with a slight update to it or no update at all. But I haven’t noticed any get re-released after many years. Interesting decision from Mel and the publishers.
I think she mentioned in a recent interview that nowadays people were more open to discuss domestic abuse with her than they were when she was doing the original promo for the book, so this might come from that.
Posted by: -Jay- Oct 2 2023, 06:41 PM
It’s a good point! So proud of her for all the work she’s done over the years to raise awareness and help people feel more comfortable to talk about it. Hopefully the reissued book continues to help that.
Posted by: Voodoo Oct 2 2023, 06:53 PM
Maybe the timing is to coincide with her being back on American TV as a judge on AGT, and to capitalise on the promotion around that.
Posted by: Mr.X Oct 2 2023, 09:38 PM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Oct 2 2023, 06:00 PM)
Re-releasing an autobiography over 5 years after original release is quite a surprising move. Is that quite rare? Usually I notice autobiographies getting a paperback release a few months after the hardback, either with a slight update to it or no update at all. But I haven’t noticed any get re-released after many years. Interesting decision from Mel and the publishers.
I wonder if they’ll leave all the previous chapters untouched, and add a new chapter, or chapters. Her book is all over the place in terms of jumping around the timelines of events, so I’m not sure whether they’d try and add new stuff within the book, or make it more straightforward and add it all to the end.
Hopefully new artwork is a given, something superior to the original art. Her image nowadays is more recognisably Mel B than back then. I wonder if it’ll still be credited to “Melanie Brown”? I know the book did well in the first place, but I feel like “Mel B” on the cover would be beneficial over Melanie Brown. I would say this is more interesting than Emma & Melanie C reissuing vinyl in different colours!
Thats for damn sure! Mel's book might be a bit all over the place as you say, but it did give us a lot of new insight into the 2007-2008 reunion at least.
Also, I forget what she said about the Olympics era? Anything?... i can't really remember anything at all
Hope we get some juicy intel
Posted by: Mr.X Nov 21 2023, 05:25 PM
A rare performance of Tell Me at TMF Awards 2000 has just been uploaded to YouTube:
Bless Mel. She could have had it all
Posted by: Matttttt Nov 22 2023, 02:26 AM
QUOTE(Mr.X @ Nov 21 2023, 11:25 AM)
A rare performance of Tell Me at TMF Awards 2000 has just been uploaded to YouTube:
Bless Mel. She could have had it all
Ooh I’ve seen this one before! At the end the turn her mic on and she shouts out Mel C, who was coming out later to sing. Guess they cut that part out
Posted by: Mr.X Nov 22 2023, 11:14 AM
QUOTE(Matttttt @ Nov 22 2023, 03:26 AM)
Ooh I’ve seen this one before! At the end the turn her mic on and she shouts out Mel C, who was coming out later to sing. Guess they cut that part out
Oh that's a shame! A bit of girl power is always welcomed
Posted by: Mr.X Nov 22 2023, 11:15 AM
Variety has mentioned Mel B as one of the Top Female Reality TV Stars. She seemingly comes right at the top:
Mel B is best known as Scary Spice thanks to her decades performing with the Spice Girls. But she’s also been on unscripted television for more than 15 years, appearing as a judge on “America’s Got Talent,” “The X Factor” in the U.K. and “The Masked Singer Australia.” This year, she competed on Fox’s “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test,” and judged Paramount+’s “Queen of the Universe.” And while she’s not on dating shows, she likes to watch them. “I can’t get enough of ‘Married at First Sight,’” says Mel B. “I’ve watched every version there is. I find it totally fascinating!”
Brutally Honest will have 3 new chapters, but it’s sticking with the original cover art. Out 7th March 2024.
Posted by: Mr.X Nov 23 2023, 01:17 PM
I WANT SPICE GIRLS GOSSIP MEL B!!! Give us info on the reason you cancelled the 2019 international dates, why was the planned documentary in 2019 also cancelled??
GIVE US EVERYTHING WE NEED
Posted by: sammy01 Nov 23 2023, 02:48 PM
QUOTE(Mr.X @ Nov 23 2023, 01:17 PM)
I WANT SPICE GIRLS GOSSIP MEL B!!! Give us info on the reason you cancelled the 2019 international dates, why was the planned documentary in 2019 also cancelled??
GIVE US EVERYTHING WE NEED
Well one word can answer those questions - Geri.
The release date is interesting as that is the date I'm expecting the documentary to either release or the first big trailer. If it is for the 30th anniversary the only solid date from 1994 is the day of the audition which was very early March iirc.
Would make sense to have it out when hype and interest is at max.
Posted by: Babyboy Jan 29 2024, 10:44 PM
https://youtu.be/68kiUNQegLo?si=SCXPS-OEwMBfsQaz
This is an jingle of a famous italian radio. One of the Dj confirmed it was recorded by Mel B in 1999. It's still on the radio everyday.
Posted by: Buzzz Feb 10 2024, 10:20 AM
I had no clue she was in such a terrible place financially after her divorce.
I’m very glad that she’s in a much more stable position now.
Posted by: colinn Feb 10 2024, 11:23 AM
Always have so much love and respect for Mel, so glad to see she's in a much better place.
Posted by: spiceboy Feb 10 2024, 11:40 AM
Hmmmm, that post is interesting. I happen to know where she has been living in a 3 million pound mansion in what is possibly, THE most prestigous area of Leeds for the last few years. I guess she was renting the place, however she was certainly not penniless or living a life of someone who was truly broke.
Don't get me wrong I am not taking away how difficult the whole thing must have been for her, but she is not the normal woman who is financially left with nothing following leaving an abusive partner.
Posted by: Mr.X Feb 10 2024, 01:11 PM
QUOTE(spiceboy @ Feb 10 2024, 11:40 AM)
Hmmmm, that post is interesting. I happen to know where she has been living in a 3 million pound mansion in what is possibly, THE most prestigous area of Leeds for the last few years. I guess she was renting the place, however she was certainly not penniless or living a life of someone who was truly broke.
Don't get me wrong I am not taking away how difficult the whole thing must have been for her, but she is not the normal woman who is financially left with nothing following leaving an abusive partner.
Yeah I agree. Even from posts we've seen over the last few years, that 'mum's shed' she talks about looked like a million pound-worth lol
Love Mel B but even when she was 'bankrupt' that just might mean her 'business' was pennyless. SHE herself is not a working class or poor, come on... Even after the divorce before she moved to Leeds, she was living in a private condo in LA. Sure it wasnt a mansion like she was used to, but lets be honest here...
Good for her that she finally has gotten back to the level she wanted/was used to though, for sure...
Posted by: spiceboy Feb 10 2024, 04:50 PM
QUOTE(Mr.X @ Feb 10 2024, 01:11 PM)
Yeah I agree. Even from posts we've seen over the last few years, that 'mum's shed' she talks about looked like a million pound-worth lol
Love Mel B but even when she was 'bankrupt' that just might mean her 'business' was pennyless. SHE herself is not a working class or poor, come on... Even after the divorce before she moved to Leeds, she was living in a private condo in LA. Sure it wasnt a mansion like she was used to, but lets be honest here...
Good for her that she finally has gotten back to the level she wanted/was used to though, for sure...
It is, her mother lives round the corner from me in the big houses, they are 800k upwards. I'd bloody love one of those houses they are utterly gorgeous
Posted by: -Jay- Feb 24 2024, 11:47 PM
'START FROM SCRATCH' I was so broke after I left abusive ex I was secretly shopping in Lidl & sleeping in same bed as 3 kids, reveals Mel B When the star walked out of her abusive ten-year marriage in 2017 she had just £700 in the bank
SPICE Girl Mel B has revealed how she was left so broke after walking out on her abusive marriage that she took to shopping in budget stores Lidl and Costco to save cash.
Melanie Brown, 48, returned to her native Leeds in 2019 — a year after divorcing abusive ex Stephen Belafonte.
But she was so drained of cash following the ten-year marriage she was forced to move in to mum Andrea’s bungalow with her three kids.
Mel, who has made more than £80million in her career, says: “People will assume, ‘She’s rich, she’s a Spice Girl’.
“But I went from performing to thousands at Wembley on the Spice Girls’ 13-date Reunion Tour in 2019 to squeezing into my mum’s with my kids sleeping in bed with me.
“I didn’t expect that to happen in my 40s after a successful career but I had nowhere else to go.
“Because I was so badly affected financially from my relationship, I had to pick up the pieces.”
When Melanie Brown walked out of her abusive ten-year marriage in 2017 she had just £700 in the bank with costly divorce and custody battles to fight.
It has taken her five years to save the cash to move out of her mum’s, and she finally exchanged on a converted farmhouse in West Yorkshire earlier this month.
Although Mel had carved out a successful career during her ten-year stint living in Los Angeles, appearing in the US version of Strictly, Dancing With The Stars, and as a judge on America’s Got Talent, she claims she lost control of her fortune while married to film producer Belafonte, 48.
Sparkling Spice But in the wake of her split, Mel has rebuilt.
She was Seahorse on The Masked Singer in 2021, is a judge on the show’s Australian version and this year returned to the America’s Got Talent panel.
She adds: “Luckily, I have always been a hard worker. I thoroughly enjoy my job and have thrown myself into it.
“I spend a lot of time speaking to abuse survivors and I want to show abuse, including financial abuse, can happen to anyone, and you can build yourself back up.”
Mel recalls how she went from having a loft apartment in LA, a ten-bed pile in Marlow, Bucks, and owning an impressive collection of furniture and art, to doing the weekly shop at budget stores.
She says: “In LA I hadn’t bought a pint of milk in years.
“But back home I would buy in bulk from Costco and got really into shopping in Aldi and Lidl.
“It was Covid times and I would put on my face mask and no one would recognise me.
“I stood in a queue for the first time in a long time. No one batted an eyelid.
“After being in an abusive relationship for years you really have to rebuild yourself inside and out. Nobody can do that apart from you.
“Having to budget and learn how much a packet of crisps costs again kind of felt like me reclaiming my power.
“I felt I went back to my Leeds roots, and I have never forgotten where I came from.”
Mel also switched from Scary Spice to Sparkling Spice.
She says: “I love cleaning. If there is something abnormal going on, like I am fighting in the courts, steaming the floors or doing laundry makes me feel normal and OK.
“I’ve tried out every steamer for floors. Seeing how clean something is gives me instant gratification.”
Astonishingly, the singer had become so isolated in LA that there were everyday things she was clueless about.
She says: “I would say to people, ‘Do you know there is this service called Amazon that delivers to your door?’ And they would be like, ‘Of course!’
“But I didn’t have access to a credit card during my relationship and was working 24/7.”
Mel, awarded an MBE in 2022 for her work as a patron for domestic abuse charity Women’s Aid, says of her time with Belafonte: “I had always taken care of my own money but over time I didn’t worry about money because in my eyes he was taking care of it.
“But afterwards I realised, ‘Oh my God, I am going to have to start from scratch, Ground Zero’.”
Scary Spice admits that even when safely cocooned in her mum’s bungalow, with her ex thousands of miles away, she struggled to shake off the trauma of that relationship.
She says: “The past five years living with my mum have been intense.
“When you are in an abusive relationship it affects your whole family and I was really angry at my mum for a while.
“I was like, ‘Why didn’t you come and get me when I was with Stephen?’
“But I didn’t know he was calling her and yelling at her and she didn’t know how to reach me.
“You have to build those relationships back up and living in that small bungalow saved ours because there was no escape.
“We joked it was like Last Of The Summer Wine meets One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
“My mum would say, ‘But you’ve left him, you’re away, you’re fine’. But it isn’t like that.
“A friend once asked me what it was like being in my head.
“The only way I could describe it was it is like being in a house where a baby is crying but you can never find the room where the baby is.
“I’m a work in progress. But look how far I’ve come.
“A few years ago if a door slammed I would jump out of my skin. Now I think, ‘It’s just a door’.”
Continuing hurt A continuing hurt has been separation from youngest child Madison, since courts ruled after expensive custody wrangling that, as a US citizen, the 12-year-old must live with dad Belafonte, who also has daughter Giselle, 19.
Mel, also mum to 16-year-old Angel, from a romance with actor Eddie Murphy, and Phoenix, 25, from a previous marriage to dancer Jimmy Gulzar, now sees Madison only in school holidays.
She says: “It is like having an arm cut off. She is my baby. I have spent a fortune on legal battles but at least she spends big chunks of time here.
“In the eyes of the court I’m the big earner and have to pay his court fees as well as my own.
“I’ve been campaigning through my work on behalf of Women’s Aid for the court system to better understand financial abuse.”
Mel reached a divorce settlement in August 2018 which involved all abuse charges being dropped.
Pivotal in rebuilding her self-esteem has been her fiancé, Leeds hairdresser Rory McPhee, 36.
She says: “He is a family friend and I have known him for a long time. So there was a foundation of trust and respect.
“And he is a great hairdresser! When I came back home in 2019 he nurtured my curls back and at the same time nurtured my trust and affection, and it just grew bit by bit.
“I kept pushing him away, saying, ‘I’m damaged goods’.
“But Rory can’t even understand how someone would even raise their voice to a woman. He is a great influence on me. If I am getting manic he can calm me.”
This year marks three decades since the Spice Girls formed and rumours of reunion gigs have been rife, although Sporty Spice (Mel C) yesterday claimed it was just talk.
Mel B adds: “All our mums get along. If there is a bit of a tiff or we get excited about something, all the mums seem to know everything first.
“My mum will be like, ‘I just got off the phone to Pauline (Baby Spice Emma Bunton’s mother) and I hear you are doing . . . ’”
Her bandmates have always been supportive.
She says: “Emma bawled her eyes out when she read my book (2018 memoir Brutally Honest).
“But there was nothing she or any of them could have done, I lied to everyone about my relationship, including myself.”
Mel says the band have recently supported Ginger Spice (Geri Horner) who has stood by her husband, Red Bull F1 boss Christian Horner, amid a probe into claims — which he vehemently denies — that he sent suggestive texts to a female colleague.
Mel says: “We have a WhatsApp group and we have sent messages.”
Mel has a packed diary this year, but many engagements seem a long way from her jet-set Spice days.
She says: “I’m going to Buckingham Palace in a few weeks for an International Women’s Day event with the Queen.
“Later in the year I am addressing the Women’s Institute at the Royal Albert Hall. It’s mad, I’m joining the Jam and Jerusalem crowd.”
Mel’s updated Brutally Honest, written with Louise Gannon (Quadrille, £10.99), is republished on March 7.
Exclusive extracts are in this week’s Sun on Sunday.
TALK OF THE TOWN Mel B reveals surprise career change in ‘huge moment’ she’s spent ‘years looking for’ The Spice Girls' star said her new job was influenced by her being a mum
SPICE GIRLS singer Mel B has got a job as a telly voiceover actress.
She narrates new Sky Kids series Happy Town, which follows a problem-solving hedgehog and ladybird pals Pep and Tabitha.
The insects must lift the spirits of the creatures, as the lights of the cartoon town are powered by their glee.
Mel said: “This is a huge moment for me – my first time as a narrator.
“I’ve spent years looking for the perfect children’s show to get involved with because I’m a mum of three, and I believe that little ones learn so much through brilliant, colourful, creative storytelling.
“At Happy Town’s heart is adventure and great entertainment – just like me really!”
A rare performance of Tell Me at TMF Awards 2000 has just been uploaded to YouTube:
Bless Mel. She could have had it all
Shame the press ripped rhem down. She cojlda been huge!
She looks great, but question: Tell Me was released in winter, with Hollier, sooo ... why is she wearing a t shirt??? She's outside. It must be freezin!!
Posted by: Anita Hanjaab Feb 25 2024, 12:11 AM
QUOTE(-Jay- @ Feb 24 2024, 11:47 PM)
'START FROM SCRATCH' I was so broke after I left abusive ex I was secretly shopping in Lidl & sleeping in same bed as 3 kids, reveals Mel B When the star walked out of her abusive ten-year marriage in 2017 she had just £700 in the bank
SPICE Girl Mel B has revealed how she was left so broke after walking out on her abusive marriage that she took to shopping in budget stores Lidl and Costco to save cash.
Melanie Brown, 48, returned to her native Leeds in 2019 — a year after divorcing abusive ex Stephen Belafonte.
But she was so drained of cash following the ten-year marriage she was forced to move in to mum Andrea’s bungalow with her three kids.
Mel, who has made more than £80million in her career, says: “People will assume, ‘She’s rich, she’s a Spice Girl’.
“But I went from performing to thousands at Wembley on the Spice Girls’ 13-date Reunion Tour in 2019 to squeezing into my mum’s with my kids sleeping in bed with me.
“I didn’t expect that to happen in my 40s after a successful career but I had nowhere else to go.
“Because I was so badly affected financially from my relationship, I had to pick up the pieces.”
When Melanie Brown walked out of her abusive ten-year marriage in 2017 she had just £700 in the bank with costly divorce and custody battles to fight.
It has taken her five years to save the cash to move out of her mum’s, and she finally exchanged on a converted farmhouse in West Yorkshire earlier this month.
Although Mel had carved out a successful career during her ten-year stint living in Los Angeles, appearing in the US version of Strictly, Dancing With The Stars, and as a judge on America’s Got Talent, she claims she lost control of her fortune while married to film producer Belafonte, 48.
Sparkling Spice But in the wake of her split, Mel has rebuilt.
She was Seahorse on The Masked Singer in 2021, is a judge on the show’s Australian version and this year returned to the America’s Got Talent panel.
She adds: “Luckily, I have always been a hard worker. I thoroughly enjoy my job and have thrown myself into it.
“I spend a lot of time speaking to abuse survivors and I want to show abuse, including financial abuse, can happen to anyone, and you can build yourself back up.”
Mel recalls how she went from having a loft apartment in LA, a ten-bed pile in Marlow, Bucks, and owning an impressive collection of furniture and art, to doing the weekly shop at budget stores.
She says: “In LA I hadn’t bought a pint of milk in years.
“But back home I would buy in bulk from Costco and got really into shopping in Aldi and Lidl.
“It was Covid times and I would put on my face mask and no one would recognise me.
“I stood in a queue for the first time in a long time. No one batted an eyelid.
“After being in an abusive relationship for years you really have to rebuild yourself inside and out. Nobody can do that apart from you.
“Having to budget and learn how much a packet of crisps costs again kind of felt like me reclaiming my power.
“I felt I went back to my Leeds roots, and I have never forgotten where I came from.”
Mel also switched from Scary Spice to Sparkling Spice.
She says: “I love cleaning. If there is something abnormal going on, like I am fighting in the courts, steaming the floors or doing laundry makes me feel normal and OK.
“I’ve tried out every steamer for floors. Seeing how clean something is gives me instant gratification.”
Astonishingly, the singer had become so isolated in LA that there were everyday things she was clueless about.
She says: “I would say to people, ‘Do you know there is this service called Amazon that delivers to your door?’ And they would be like, ‘Of course!’
“But I didn’t have access to a credit card during my relationship and was working 24/7.”
Mel, awarded an MBE in 2022 for her work as a patron for domestic abuse charity Women’s Aid, says of her time with Belafonte: “I had always taken care of my own money but over time I didn’t worry about money because in my eyes he was taking care of it.
“But afterwards I realised, ‘Oh my God, I am going to have to start from scratch, Ground Zero’.”
Scary Spice admits that even when safely cocooned in her mum’s bungalow, with her ex thousands of miles away, she struggled to shake off the trauma of that relationship.
She says: “The past five years living with my mum have been intense.
“When you are in an abusive relationship it affects your whole family and I was really angry at my mum for a while.
“I was like, ‘Why didn’t you come and get me when I was with Stephen?’
“But I didn’t know he was calling her and yelling at her and she didn’t know how to reach me.
“You have to build those relationships back up and living in that small bungalow saved ours because there was no escape.
“We joked it was like Last Of The Summer Wine meets One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
“My mum would say, ‘But you’ve left him, you’re away, you’re fine’. But it isn’t like that.
“A friend once asked me what it was like being in my head.
“The only way I could describe it was it is like being in a house where a baby is crying but you can never find the room where the baby is.
“I’m a work in progress. But look how far I’ve come.
“A few years ago if a door slammed I would jump out of my skin. Now I think, ‘It’s just a door’.”
Continuing hurt A continuing hurt has been separation from youngest child Madison, since courts ruled after expensive custody wrangling that, as a US citizen, the 12-year-old must live with dad Belafonte, who also has daughter Giselle, 19.
Mel, also mum to 16-year-old Angel, from a romance with actor Eddie Murphy, and Phoenix, 25, from a previous marriage to dancer Jimmy Gulzar, now sees Madison only in school holidays.
She says: “It is like having an arm cut off. She is my baby. I have spent a fortune on legal battles but at least she spends big chunks of time here.
“In the eyes of the court I’m the big earner and have to pay his court fees as well as my own.
“I’ve been campaigning through my work on behalf of Women’s Aid for the court system to better understand financial abuse.”
Mel reached a divorce settlement in August 2018 which involved all abuse charges being dropped.
Pivotal in rebuilding her self-esteem has been her fiancé, Leeds hairdresser Rory McPhee, 36.
She says: “He is a family friend and I have known him for a long time. So there was a foundation of trust and respect.
“And he is a great hairdresser! When I came back home in 2019 he nurtured my curls back and at the same time nurtured my trust and affection, and it just grew bit by bit.
“I kept pushing him away, saying, ‘I’m damaged goods’.
“But Rory can’t even understand how someone would even raise their voice to a woman. He is a great influence on me. If I am getting manic he can calm me.”
This year marks three decades since the Spice Girls formed and rumours of reunion gigs have been rife, although Sporty Spice (Mel C) yesterday claimed it was just talk.
Mel B adds: “All our mums get along. If there is a bit of a tiff or we get excited about something, all the mums seem to know everything first.
“My mum will be like, ‘I just got off the phone to Pauline (Baby Spice Emma Bunton’s mother) and I hear you are doing . . . ’”
Her bandmates have always been supportive.
She says: “Emma bawled her eyes out when she read my book (2018 memoir Brutally Honest).
“But there was nothing she or any of them could have done, I lied to everyone about my relationship, including myself.”
Mel says the band have recently supported Ginger Spice (Geri Horner) who has stood by her husband, Red Bull F1 boss Christian Horner, amid a probe into claims — which he vehemently denies — that he sent suggestive texts to a female colleague.
Mel says: “We have a WhatsApp group and we have sent messages.”
Mel has a packed diary this year, but many engagements seem a long way from her jet-set Spice days.
She says: “I’m going to Buckingham Palace in a few weeks for an International Women’s Day event with the Queen.
“Later in the year I am addressing the Women’s Institute at the Royal Albert Hall. It’s mad, I’m joining the Jam and Jerusalem crowd.”
Mel’s updated Brutally Honest, written with Louise Gannon (Quadrille, £10.99), is republished on March 7.
Exclusive extracts are in this week’s Sun on Sunday.
Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/26147110/mel-b-broke-abusive-relationship/ ------------------------------------------- MEL B plans to tie the knot with fiancé Rory McPhee in St Paul’s Cathedral.
She says: “As I have an MBE I am allowed to marry at St Paul’s.
“They only do a small number of weddings a year so we are on the waiting list.”
Mel hopes it will be this year or next, and explains how she and Rory had to meet the chaplain of St Paul’s.
She says: “Because I have been married twice before we talked about that.
“I was very open and honest.
“I take marriage seriously and am actually very traditional.
“I spoke about how I was married for ten very abusive years.
“Before the conversation even ended they said they would approve us.
“I keep thinking how proud my dad Martin, who died in 2017, would have been.”
The Spice Girls are invited.
Mel joked: “They won’t be bridesmaids though, we are all too old.”
Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/26147266/mel-b-rory-mcphee-wedding-st-pauls-cathedral/ ------------------------------------------- TALK OF THE TOWN Mel B reveals surprise career change in ‘huge moment’ she’s spent ‘years looking for’ The Spice Girls' star said her new job was influenced by her being a mum
SPICE GIRLS singer Mel B has got a job as a telly voiceover actress.
She narrates new Sky Kids series Happy Town, which follows a problem-solving hedgehog and ladybird pals Pep and Tabitha.
The insects must lift the spirits of the creatures, as the lights of the cartoon town are powered by their glee.
Mel said: “This is a huge moment for me – my first time as a narrator.
“I’ve spent years looking for the perfect children’s show to get involved with because I’m a mum of three, and I believe that little ones learn so much through brilliant, colourful, creative storytelling.
“At Happy Town’s heart is adventure and great entertainment – just like me really!”
The Sun reported on her money PLUS her mobe into her ma's when it happened. My qu3stion is: who told them?? Mel or her mam?
Posted by: Mr.X Mar 7 2024, 03:55 PM
Has anyone read the new chapters of her book? Just wondering if she shared anymore info around the Spice tour 2019 and any other info on the girls?
Posted by: sammy01 Mar 7 2024, 07:03 PM
Like Rosie Frost most people on Spice Circle seem to be buying it for collection purposes only. I haven't seen one topic about the actual content of the new chapters.
It is no wonder they put zero effort into anything these days when the hardcore fans would buy anything.
Posted by: Anita Hanjaab Mar 8 2024, 12:13 AM
Imagine what Girls Aloud woulda done with that level of success and fame!!
Posted by: -Jay- Mar 13 2024, 09:52 AM
The reissue of Brutally Honest seems to be doing quite well, currently #72 in the Amazon book chart but also the #1 “musician autography”. I know #72 may not seem great on the surface but I think it appearing amongst every kind of book that’s selling well enough to be in the Top 100 at the moment (fiction, children’s, cookery books, self help etc), is pretty good!
Posted by: sammy01 Mar 13 2024, 11:37 AM
I think I'm right in saying its sales have blown the other girls books out the water. It sold something like 12k the week it was on the Sunday times bestsellers list, while Emma and Mel C managed about 5k and Geri didn't make the list at all.
The number of reviews for Mel B's book on Amazon absolutely dewarfs the others too.
Posted by: Mr.X Mar 13 2024, 01:18 PM
Yeah it is quite a success for her, and I am glad.
Did Geri's book really not make any list in the UK? Thats quite bad for such a massive slap in the press.... It did flop a bit right?....
Posted by: sammy01 Mar 13 2024, 03:20 PM
I have no real idea how Geri's book sold but I don't think it was good sales in the UK. Geri seemed to cling to it making the New York times list but it was such a niche list 'hardback kids books'. I cant imagine many kids books are released as hardback.
The Rosie Frost insta page hasn't posted since 20th Dec 2023, which if you think it is meant to be a series then you would think they would want to keep posting every now and then. There is also no pre-order up for a 2nd book despite it supposedly coming out this year.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Rosie books are put on hold or it just gets shelved.
Posted by: Anita Hanjaab Mar 16 2024, 03:31 PM
It was a massive flop. When she gets menrioned thesw days, it's in scathing pieces about the publishing industey being choked by "celebrity writers" and people having to become ghost writers for "celebs". There was one on tv the orhee day and it focused on loads of others and just mentioned her in passing as part of the problem!!!
Posted by: Anita Hanjaab Mar 16 2024, 03:34 PM
The reason why Mel does so well is she is authentic, ans ahe tells the trurh. Look at her with Piers. She told the truth. We all know their split might be what actually helped end the spicu girls too, but Geri is uust putting on yet another persona. The only one you can get the truth from is Mel B.
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but anyway, great for Mel!
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