Mel C

Profession: Singer
Place/Date of Birth: Widnes, Cheshire, 12 January 1974
Associated with: Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell, Mel B, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham

The girls are now all in their late twenties and since the Spice Girls have been known for various reasons - a famous footballing husband, weight disorders, yoga, being dropped by their record labels and having a few babies / hits - so can they still pull off a possible last ’Sporty’ stage outing? Although a Greatest Hits album would probably still go down a treat...

Mel C to tour again - 27/01/03
Hampstead resident Mel C has revealed plans for her first nationwide tour in several years. The former Sporty Spice kicks off the 14-date tour at Middlesbrough Town Hall on April 24.

She will play Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, York, Nottingham, Oxford, Ipswich, Norwich, Bristol, Southampton, London and Belfast, before ending in Dublin on May 12.

Her next single Here It Comes Again is released on February 24.

Birthday bother for Mel C - 13/01/02
Former Spice Girl Mel C celebrated her 29th birthday in Manchester’s Circle Club, after dinner and a slice of birthday cake the doorman took a dislike to Mel’s man Thomas Starr and booted him out of the club.

A witness said: "They just turfed Thomas into the street. No one knows why. Mel shouted at the door staff but they were not having any of it. She went berserk."

Mel followed Thomas out of the club in the early hours of the morning, hurling abuse at the doormen and people in the streets.

Mel C making a comeback - 19/11/02
Ex-Spice girl, Mel C, plans to make a comeback in the New Year. Her new single will be released in February and the album will be out in March.

She has told Radio 1 that there are no plans or a Spice Girls reunion, but that she is ready to perform again after her depression.

"You know, it’s well-publicised that I did go through some quite horrible moments. I was very depressed, and it did cross my mind you know that maybe I should do something else...maybe this isn’t right for me. But that didn’t last very long and there’s nothing else I want to do. So I’m back and I feel great now. I think I was burned out."

Fitter then ever - 11/03/02
For a while she was known as fat, even beefy spice after piling on the pounds, its been a while since then, not only has she shed over a stone and a half, but fit she still is.
Mel C has been working on a follow-up album in Los Angeles and will be back in England around mid march - she’s planning on running the Flora London Marathon!

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Biography

Melanie C - Mel C - Sporty Spice - whatever you want to call her - this is one lass who is proud to be from Liverpool. Born in Whiston Hospital, Merseyside, she was brought up in Rainhill, then Widnes and grew up in a sports-mad Liverpool-supporting family and became an accomplished player herself. Her love of Liverpool FC and sport in general became her trademark, and after deciding to incorporate her high-kicks into the spice girl act, her fate was sealed, and she was known as sporty spice for ever after.

Unless you’ve been living in a cave these past 6 years, you will have heard of Mel C and even if you don’t know her by name, you must have heard of The Spice Girls and their message of girl power. They were the girl band of the 90’s who for a while, really seemed to rule the world. They broke America, toured the world....they’ve sold something like 40million albums worldwide. Which really is quite an extraordinary thing for five such ordinary english girls to achieve. Mel was the quieter one, a bit shy- but then with the likes of Geri, Mel B and Posh around, it’s not surprising that she didn’t try and compete for the spotlight. She was generally considered to have the best voice out of the group, and although that’s not saying much, she has gone on to prove her critics wrong.

Although the spice girls have never offically split, they’ve have all gone their separate ways over the past two years to work on solo projects. For most of them, they have had to learn the hard way that being a member of a successful group and being in the papers does not guarantee you success as a soloist. Mel B was recently dumped by her record label Virgin. Emma also got the chop a few months later, depite having a No1 with ’what took you so long’. Geri’s album had very dissapointing sales, despite having a few successful singles. And then there’s Victoria. She’s in a league of her own celebrity wise, but she still insists on making music and banging on about proving to people that she can sing, when we all know she can’t. Her album bombed out of the charts like a lead balloon.

The picture is looking much more rosy for Mel C. Her album ’Northern Star’ (a name that proudly shows off her Liverpudlian roots) has been a massive No1 success, and is still riding high in the charts after nearly a year. Although she got off to a bit of a rocky start - people couldn’t quite believe she was for real - when she strolled onto the stage at Glastonbury acting like Sid Vicious people laughed. She’s not punk, she’s a spice girl, who’s she trying to kid? But she soldiered on, and people came to see that it wasn’t just an act, that her tastes in music weren’t represented by what she did with the spice girls.

Mel has been dogged by the press continually, and seemed to be at breaking point at the end of last year. She said she couldn’t take the pressure of having her weight continually analyzed in the tabloids, and said how much it hurt her when she read things like ’beefy spice’, which did seem to be a ridiculous double standard when at the same time the same press were still calling Victoria ’skeletal spice’. But she’s a bit of a comeback kid, and has bounced back. She has her dark hair back again (soooo much better than blonde) and is looking very trim indeed.

Mel C - a real northern star to be proud of.
January 2008