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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.

 

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    It's Mel B's 50th birthday today! Happiest of birthdays to her 🥰

Does he predict her divorce or is he just another ridiculous charlatan? lol

 

Probably a charlatan lol

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/vi...383413566836010 (almost 850k likes and 8.6m views)

https://www.tiktok.com/@phoenixisphoenix/vi...708851510021422 (almost 163k likes and 1.9 views)

https://www.tiktok.com/@phoenixisphoenix/vi...881010521460014 (over 55k likes and almost 943k views)

 

Instagram:

 

Spiceworld: The Movie (US trailer) - 1997 🌎 📸 @edwiggery

 

Say you’ll be there - music video shoot 🤜🏽 (1996). 📸 @edwiggery

 

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...

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.

 

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.

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.

  • 3 weeks later...

Mel was on The View, promoting Special Forces:

 

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^ 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...

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertai...e-b2266274.html[/b]

 

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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.'

 

 

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:

 

... 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

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  • 5 weeks later...

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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.”

  • 2 weeks later...

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

 

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. :heart:
  • 3 weeks later...

This has to be about Mel B and Stephen, right? https://www.tiktok.com/@anjuliemusic/video/...330921837333802

 

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? :thinking:

 

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.

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. :thinking:

This has to be about Mel B and Stephen, right? https://www.tiktok.com/@anjuliemusic/video/...330921837333802

 

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? :thinking:

 

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?

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.

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