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My baby will be an Aussie!

// July 10th, 2011 // 7 Comments » // Articles

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Mel B tells us what she really, really wants… MY BABY WILL BE AN AUSSIE

The former Spice Girl tells SEBASTIAN VAN DER ZWAN about her love life, Australia and how she’ll spice up The X Factor

As Melanie Brown leans over her adorable daughter Angel to dab some “fairy princess” shadow over her eyes, the little girl throws her arms around her mum’s swollen belly and asks, teasingly, “What’s that?”

“You know the answer to that one,” grins the former Scary Spice, now known as Mel B. “It’s a baby.”

“When’s it coming out?” asks the cheeky four-year-old.

“That’s what I want to know!” her mother laughs. “I feel like I’m about to burst!”

Mel – who usually lives in Los Angeles, but is in Australia preparing for her role as a judge on The X Factor – is eight months pregnant and has clearly reached that uncomfortable stage.

As she is primped and preened for Woman’s Day’s exclusive photo shoot, Mel, 36, clutches her baby bump and groans, “Who was it that said pregnancy was exciting? It is at the start, with the glowing skin and the joy of bringing new life into the world, but now I just want this baby out of me!

“This is my third pregnancy,” she quickly adds, “so I’m allowed to moan!”

Despite her jokey protestations, Mel is clearly revelling in motherhood. Chuckling in her distinctive, throaty northern England accent, she says this pregnancy is very different to the previous ones, “Because I’m actually with the dad!”

Around the Internet

// June 5th, 2011 // 9 Comments » // Articles

Mel B’s diva act – the spice girl pulls out of a job at the last minute

DailyTelegraph.com.au
TOO hot to handle? Mel B (left) is the big draw on this year’s X Factor, but some say the former Spice Girl is proving a challenge to manage. It’s understood the pregnant star has pulled out of at least one high-profile magazine shoot at the last minute…

Mel B loving X Factor role

NZCity.co.nz
Mel B loves telling ‘X Factor’ hopefuls they are “terrible”. The former Spice Girls star – who was nicknamed Scary Spice during her time with the group – recently joined the Australian version of the TV talent show as a judge alongside Natalie Bassingthwaite, Ronan Keating and Guy Sebastian and after auditions started this week, the British singer is enjoying it more than she expected…

Around the Internet: Kyle and Jackie O Show

// June 1st, 2011 // No Comments » // Articles

Video: Mel B Calls Madonna A ‘Bitch’

SAFM.com.au
Newly installed X-Factor judge Mel B got in a bit of practice on the Kyle and Jackie O by going through a few fairly famous audition tapes. Out of Guy Sebastian, Lady Gaga, Pink, Madonna, Elton John and herself, who would she put through to the next round? Who would she reject…

Former Spice Girl Mel B announces she will join the Kyle and Jackie O show as a guest presenter

DailyTelegraph.com.au
THE former Spice Girl has announced today that she will join the 2Day FM duo as a regular guest host while she’s in town filming Seven’s X Factor. Scary Spice – or Melanie Brown as she’d now like to be known – has struck a deal with 2Day FM to co-host on the Kyle and Jackie O show during her judging stint on Australia’s X Factor. The sometime singer joined the high-profile jockeys this morning to confirm her regular guest host role…

Former Spice girl Mel B joins Kyle & Jackie O show

mUmBRELLA.com.au
Ex-Spice Girl Melanie Brown, otherwise known as Scary Spice, is to join the 2Day FM breakfast team as a guest host while she is in the country filming Seven show X Factor…

Mel B joins ‘Kyle and Jackie O Show’

DigitalSpy.com
Mel B has joined The Kyle and Jackie O Show as a regular host. The former Spice Girl, who has relocated to Australia to become a judge on The X Factor, was announced as the latest guest presenter on Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O’s 2DayFM breakfast radio show this morning. Jackie O said live on air: “We have to make a special announcement. Mel B is now a member of our team, she’s a regular on the show.”

Around The Internet

// May 31st, 2011 // 1 Comment » // Articles

So True? So False? Is There Another Spice Girls Tour in the Works?!

EOnline.com
Is the world ready for another round of girl power? Actually, let us qualify that: another round of girl power courtesy of the Spice Girls? That’s what anyone following erstwhile Scary Spice Melanie Brown was bracing for last week, when we she and Union Jack pleather dress wearer extraordinaire Geri Halliwell seemed to hash out a deal to try and publicly cajole Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton and Melanie Chisholm into reuniting one more time for another trek round the world…

Mel B left without clothes after luggage goes missing

MonsterAndCritics.com
Pregnant Mel B has been left without any clothes after her suitcase went missing on a flight to Sydney. The singer is Down Under while she sits as a judge on the Australian X Factor. She boarded a flight from Melbourne after celebrating her 36th birthday on Sunday. But upon landing at Sydney airport, she soon realised that all of her family’s suitcases had vanished…

Mel B – Birthday Girl Melanie Brown Loses Luggage

ContactMusic.com
Pregnant singer Melanie Brown has been left without her holiday clothing after losing her luggage on a flight to Sydney, Australia hours after celebrating her 36th birthday. The Spice Girl marked her big day on Sunday (29May11) in front of a TV audience in Melbourne as she filmed episodes of Australia’s The X Factor talent show, on which she is a judge. She later boarded a flight to Sydney with her family, but soon learned her bags had gone missing en route…

Articles Of The Week

// May 28th, 2011 // 1 Comment » // Articles

Oops! Mel B Tricked By Twitter Imposter Into Agreeing To Spice Girls Reunion Tour!

PerezHilton.com
Oh no! How embarrassing! Twitter seems to have gotten the best of Mel B, as she inadvertantly agreed to another Spice Girls reunion tour when an imposter posing as former bandmate Geri Halliwell suggested that the girls all get together once again!

Guy Sebastian is flat out judging The X Factor

DailyTelegraph.com.au
IT’S the new craze that’s sweeping the world. Well, the world of Twitter and Facebook anyway. And now planking has entered the sphere of celebrity. While filming the new series of The X Factor this week Guy Sebastian pulled a planking pose – face down, dead straight…

Mel B falls for Spice reunion hoax

BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
Mel B was left a little red-faced after a hoaxer posed on Twitter as Geri Halliwell and suggested a Spice Girls reunion tour. Singer and reality TV star Mel, who is currently Down Under to judge The Australian X Factor, appeared to get excited when GeriHalliwell1, and a message putting forward the idea of a reunion to all the Spice Girls, appeared on the social networking site. Mel B tweeted: “Whoop whoop hands up for another spice tour!!!!! count me in”…

New Australian ‘X Factor’ judge Mel B is enjoying her new role – particularly when she gets to tell hopefuls they are “terrible”.

NZCity.co.nz
Mel B loves telling ‘X Factor’ hopefuls they are “terrible”. The former Spice Girls star – who was nicknamed Scary Spice during her time with the group – recently joined the Australian version of the TV talent show as a judge alongside Natalie Bassingthwaite, Ronan Keating and Guy Sebastian and after auditions started this week, the British singer is enjoying it more than she expected. Mel – who is pregnant with her third child – said: “What can I say, it’s been an interesting two days. Long days, may I say? We have definitely captured some amazing talent in Brisbane. And also some very strange, funny, and quirky, talent (if you can call it that!)…

Mel B duped by Twitter fraudster

MonsterAndCritics.com
Mel B has been duped by a Twitter fraudster posing as her former Spice Girls bandmate Geri Halliwell. The 35-year-old British singer was happily chatting to a user called GeriHalliwell1 on the social networking site, thinking that it was Geri herself, and even agreed to another tour with the girl group. She replied, ‘Whoop whoop hands up for another spice tour!!!!! Count me in’…

Mel B’s been sucked in by a Spice Girls reunion hoax

HeatWorld.com
Now this is a little bit embarrassing, but at least we know one member of the Spice Girls is up for another reunion tour. Thanks to Twitter, Mel B was sucked into believing that Geri Halliwell wanted the girl group to go on tour again, after a fake Geri started chatting away on Twitter about a possible reunion…

Mel B is bringing Scary Spice back for X Factor 2011

Express.co.uk
SHE used to be all about peace, love and girl power but since becoming an X Factor judge it appears Mel B is doing quite a convincing Simon Cowell impression. The pregnant 35-year-old says she gets a kick out of telling people how bad they are on the Australian version of the show, where she works alongside Ronan Keating…

Mel B is bringing Scary Spice back for X Factor 2011

UnrealityTV.co.uk
Mel B has revealed that she is bringing Scary Spice back for the Australian X Factor series. The former Spice Girls singer has joined the judging panel of the Oz show and started auditioning hopefuls this month…

Mel B unleashes `Scary Spice` on X Factor contestants

MonsterAndCritics.com
Mel B has revealed that she unleashed her inner Scary Spice while judging the X Factor Australia. The talent show is still at the audition stage and the 35-year-old former Spice Girl said that she is enjoying weeding out the good from the bad…

Mel B falls for Spice reunion hoax

Independent.ie
Mel B was left a little red-faced after a hoaxer posed on Twitter as Geri Halliwell and suggested a Spice Girls reunion tour. Singer and reality TV star Mel, who is currently Down Under to judge The Australian X Factor, appeared to get excited when GeriHalliwell1, and a message putting forward the idea of a reunion to all the Spice Girls, appeared on the social networking site…

Mel B loving X Factor role

MusicRooms.net
Former Spice Girl Mel B is having a great time in her role as a judge on the Australian version of X Factor – so much so, in fact, that she can’t get enough of telling the aspiring artists that they are “terrible”. Melanie Brown – nicknamed Scary Spice while in the pop outfit – only recently joined up with Guy Sebastian, Natalie Bassingthwaite and Ronan Keating on the television talent show, but is having more fun that she thought was possible…

Melanie Brown Duped By Fake Halliwell

ContactMusic.com
Melanie Brown has fallen victim to a Twitter faker who was posing as her former Spice Girls bandmate Geri Halliwell. The British singer replied to posts from a user claiming to be her friend, under the username GeriHalliwell1, and even got excited when the prankster suggested heading out on another Spice Girls tour…

Melanie Brown Shares ‘X Factor’ Set Picture

ImNotObsessed.com
Sounds like Melanie Brown is having a great time! I wish they were a little CLOSER to the judges, but you can still get the feel of the panel. A few minutes ago, the pregnant judge posted the following message on Twitter: “What a great kick off to Melbourne, I’ve already cried at one of the singers, he moved me so much!” Wow! Can’t wait to check out the episode!…

 

X Factor Australia Press

// May 25th, 2011 // 2 Comments » // Articles

Mel loves B-ing a harsh judge

TheSun.co.uk
MEL B has declared she loves telling wannabes how terrible they are on The X Factor Australia. The former Spice Girl, 35 – who is pregnant with her third child – wrote on her website: “Who’d a thought telling people they were terrible would be so much fun?!? Can’t wait for you guys to see what fun and chaos we created at the X Factor auditions. “It sucks cuz you have to see it to believe it! But one thing I can say is you will NOT be disappointed.” “Scary Spice came out in full effect!” Mel judges alongside Natalie Bassingthwaite, Ronan Keating and Guy Sebastian …

X Factor hopefuls strut their stuff in Brisbane auditions

CourierMail.com.au
QUEENSLAND’S best talent was on show at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre over the weekend as The X Factor auditions kicked off, and Confidential was given an exclusive peek. With Guy Sebastian recording in LA, the talented (and the not so talented) only had to impress Ronan Keating, Natalie Bassingthwaighte and former Spice Girl Melanie “Mel B” Brown. But if they thought one less judge was going to make things any easier, they were wrong. The judges have already settled comfortably into their roles, with Nat Bass playing the ditzy flirt with breathtaking efficiency, even encouraging one contestant to flash his abs …

Out and About in OZ

// May 23rd, 2011 // 1 Comment » // Articles

Mel B’s and her hubby’s spicy night out in Brighton-Le -Sands

DailyTelegraph.com.au
BRIGHTON-LE-SANDS isn’t a suburb you’d normally associate with international celebs. But that’s exactly where Spice Girl Melanie Brown and hubby Stephen Belafonte chose to celebrate their birthdays on Wednesday night. “We are going to have a lot of fun here,” Belafonte said. “We’ll surf some waves and get eaten by a great white.” …

Seaplane Spice: Mel B takes to the skies as she treats husband Stephen to a birthday flight Down Under

DailyMail.co.uk
It’s certainly proving to be a busy year for Melanie Brown. She’s heavily pregnant, a long way from home on the other side of the world and about to start a very high-profile new job. But she is also a woman whose family will always come first, and yesterday she took time out from her hectic schedule to show them just how much she cares …