Mel C opens up about sexual assault experience

Victoria Beckham, 48, in a recent interview when she was asked why the fashion designer did not return for the reunion tour.Melanie appeared on the podcast, The Diary of a CEO, earlier this week to discuss her upcoming book, Who I Am.The singer spoke candidly about the Spice Girls reunion in 2019 and revealed that Victoria turned down taking part for personal reasons.The shows went on with Mel C, Emma Bunton, Mel B, and Geri Halliwell, and ultimately became the pop group's most successful tour.Podcast host Steven Bartlett asked Mel the big question about Victoria's absence.She revealed: "On a more personal level, and I think this has been said, I don't think she'd mind me saying..."When we did the Olympics in 2012, she had a really hard time.She was petrified.She had a lot of anxiety about that performance."Despite Victoria having since referred to the performance as one of the "proudest" moments of her career, Mel did not remember it as that.Mel continued: "She was like, 'You know what girls, I'm putting my dancing shoes up'."We respected her decision.

Mel C has admitted she didn’t feel the need to warn fellow singer  Robbie Williams she was going to open up about their romance when penning her autobiography.The Spice Girl previously confirmed she dated the Angels hitmaker in the mid-90s and has opened up about their time together in her new tell-all memoir, Who I Am. However, she confessed that she didn’t feel the need to let him know he’s in the book, because of the way the former Take That star has apparently ‘behaved over the years’, she said.To give the Shine singer his due, he has admitted himself he was in no rush to settle down before he met wife Ayda. ‘[It’s] amazing for somebody built like me – to put it in vulgar terms – a sh**ger.

Sporty Spice is opening up about her experience with body image issues.

Holly Willoughby referenced Mel B on This Morning today, days after the Spice Girls star appeared to take a dig at her and Phillip Schofield. Mel's bandmate Mel C was on the ITV daytime show to chat to the hosts about her new book.

Holly Willoughby hit back at Mel C as they discussed throwing knickers from a moving car window on This Morning.Mel, 48, joined Holly and co-host Phillip Schofield as she discussed her upcoming autobiographical book with them in the studio.Inevitably the chat turned to Mel's inclusion of a story about the day the Spice Girls signed their record deal with virgin records when they went on a wild night out to celebrate. READ MORE: Mel B suffers major wardrobe malfunction trying to squeeze into skintight dress The passage in the book claims that bandmate Victoria Beckham was so excited at the deal she ended up flinging her knickers out the cab window as they celebrated.As Phillip quizzed her on the story Mel roped Holly in as she tried to explain events surrounding the hilarious incident.Mel recalled:" We went in this cab, we'd had a few champagnes to celebrate signing the deal, and somebody's knickers ended up getting chucked out of the taxi, which is very Spice Girls. Victoria I'm sorry for telling that story."Phillip interrupted: "How come her knickers ended up out the cab window?"Mel said: "Holly, we've had nights out..."A gobsmacked Holly then retorted: "My Knickers have never ended up out of any cab window let me say."Phil meanwhile seemingly didn't want to feel left out as he joked: "My pants have!"The supergroup signed the deal in 1995 and then went on a wild cab ride to swanky Kensington Place in West London.In her autobiography, Who I Am, Mel C wrote: “By the time we arrived, the taxi was a wreck; there was lipstick, champagne and flowers all over it.

Holly Willoughby was quick to justify her antics on a night out after Mel C made a comment during her appearance on This Morning. The Spice Girl, whose real name is Melanie Chisholm, was on the ITV daytime show to chat about her new book.

Victoria Beckham— were free to have boyfriends. "Looking back what struck me was it was one rule for one and another for the others, right?" she said. "I think when you are vulnerable as well, people go, I don't think it's good for you."The rule for the other women, she said, was "she is fine, she can have a boyfriend, she can cope with having a boyfriend, she is strong enough but you are not."Mel C, also known as Sporty Spice in the '90s, added, "It makes you question yourself when you are already vulnerable."As Mel got older, she began dating, and even had a tryst with Robbie Williams in 1997.

VIEWERS of The One have been left baffled after watching a new interview with Spice Girl Mel C. Mel, 49, appeared on Tuesday's instalment of the teatime show to chat about her upcoming autobiography.

King Charles just days after he ascended the throne.The former Spice Girl, also known as Sporty Spice, revealed that Prince Harry and William made better hosts than the new King.The Spice Girls had been invited to tea at the now-king's Highgrove House in Gloucestershire in the 1990s - quite the honour.READ MORE: Spice Girl Mel B takes brutal swipe at ITV Holly and Phil's 'queue jump' ordealThe pop stars were served traditional royal grub such as cucumber sandwiches in the drawing room, but it seems one singer wasn't quite pleased with the service.The royal dinner went horribly wrong when one unnamed Spice Girl complained she wasn't full enough after her meal.Mel C told the epic royal tale on Tuesday's One Show (September 20), where she knew she had to "explain herself" in case she got herself trouble with the monarch.When asked if King Charles made a good host, she answered: "Well, he was a decent host, but William and Harry were better."The singer went on: "It would have been '97 or '98, and were invited to Highgrove for tea. It was a very traditional cucumber sandwiches, in the drawing room.

Spice Girls following a dispute with Victoria Beckham. Sporty Spice shared the details of the situation in her autobiography, Who I Am: My Story, which was released in stores across the country earlier in the week.

Spice Girls concert.The star was speaking on novelist Elizabeth Day's podcast and explained to listeners that the assault took place during a hotel massage in Turkey.She explained that the assault made her feel "violated, vulnerable and embarrassed".READ MORE: Mel B suffers major wardrobe malfunction trying to squeeze into skintight dressShe said: "I felt unsure – have I got this right? I was in an environment where you take your clothes off with this professional person."The 90s pop star then explained that she "buried" the experience because she wanted to focus on the girl band. She said: "I didn't want to make a fuss but also I didn't have time to deal with it."Mel said that she didn't think about the incident for "years and years and years" and it only resurfaced when she started writing her memoir Who Am I, where she chose to write about it.

Spice Girls star Melanie C, 48, has revealed she was nearly “ousted” from the Spice Girls for a drunken incident involving her bandmate Victoria Beckham, 48.The singer admitted that she “lost control” in that moment, and that her expletive-filled outburst had some serious consequences.Consisting of Victoria, Mel C, Mel B, Emma Bunton and Geri Horner, the Spice Girls formed in 1994 and went on to become one of the most popular girl bands in the world.However, a “pivotal moment” came for Mel C at the 1996 Brit Awards, when the star created a bit of a scene for all the wrong reasons.The star recalled sitting next to Lenny Kravitz as the girl group sipped champagne as they watched the night’s performances."As we were all leaving, you know we'd all had a little bit of champagne. We were all a little tipsy, probably quite drunk and there was a little incident," Mel explained in the How To Fail with Elizabeth Day podcast."It was nothing huge in my mind.

Melanie Chisholm, also known as Spice Girls' Mel C, is opening up about a night from her Spice Girls days when she alleges she was sexually assaulted. In an interview on Elizabeth Day’s podcast, Chisholm claimed that she was sexually assaulted by a massage therapist at a spa in an Istanbul, Turkey hotel in 1997 ahead of her first-ever live performance as a Spice Girl. The singer was staying in the hotel the night before the group was set to hit the stage for the first time.«We were in Istanbul.

Getting real. Melanie Chisholm, aka Mel C, opened up about the experience of being sexually assaulted before her first ever full-length live performance with the Spice Girls in 1997.

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Melanie C has said she was sexually assaulted in a hotel the night before her first live show with the Spice Girls back in 1997.The 48 year old, whose full name is Melanie Jayne Chisholm, shared how the ordeal impacted her to such a degree that she tried to bury the memory and it re-emerged years later in the form of a dream. Speaking to host Elizabeth Day on the How To Fail podcast to promote her new memoir Who I Am: My story, Melanie explained that she didn't tell anyone about the incident as she didn't want to "make a fuss".

Mel C has revealed she was almost kicked out of the Spice Girls after telling Victoria Beckham to 'f*** off'.

according to the podcast “How to Fail.” “Here we were, the eve of the first ever Spice Girls show,” recalls Chisholm while appearing on the podcast to promote her new book — which is to be released in the UK on Thursday. “So I treat myself to a massage in the hotel and what happened to me, I kind of buried immediately because there were other things to focus on.” Chisholm reveals that while she didn’t want to make a fuss about the incident with a male masseur, she also didn’t have time to deal with the actual assault.

Mel C aka Sporty Spice revealed she was sexually assaulted the night before the very first Spice Girls performance.