Spice Girl Melanie Brown – aka Mel B – has opened up about an “embarrassing” faux-pas she suffered just lately whereas accepting a prestigious award from Prince William.
The woman group star, identified to hundreds of thousands as ‘Scary Spice’, was awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in May final 12 months for her work campaigning in opposition to home abuse.
The award was to be offered to her at Buckingham Palace by Prince William himself – and Mel B enlisted her outdated bandmate Victoria Beckham, now a profitable designer, to offer her the right outfit.
There was just one drawback: The outfit Beckham selected had a slit throughout the gown, proper the place the Prince was to pin her medal. Cue a clumsy second as William, confronted with a Spice Girl’s cleavage, tried to work out precisely the place he might pin the medal.
“It was fairly embarrassing, truly, as a result of I didn‘t realise the medal actually goes here on your chest,” Mel B revealed in an appearance on US talk show Live With Kelly and Ryan this week.
“And Victoria designed my dress, mine and my mom’s gown for the event. And she put a giant slit proper there. I used to be like, ’Oh, sorry.’”
“I think she knew,” Mel B joked of her bandmate. ”She did a quantity on me!”
Clearly, there have been no actual arduous emotions, although: Mel posted a uncommon picture of her and Victoria collectively after the Buckingham Palace occasion, sharing a meal in celebration of her award.
“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,” she wrote, paying tribute to their “25 years of friendship.”
And there was some promising news for Spice Girls followers from Mel B’s current TV look, with the star insisting on UK chat present Loose Women this week that the group can be getting again collectively for one thing particular quickly.
“For sure we are getting back together. We‘re sisters at the end of the day and what we went through was quite an amazing, brilliant, journey so we’re together, we’re back together,“ she said.
“There‘s one that’s been a bit difficult, but she’s getting roped in,” she continued, with out naming names.
But fellow Spice Girl Mel C informed a special story in one other interview this week, telling the Guardian that she “hates” being requested in regards to the oft-rumoured notion the group might reunite for a efficiency on the iconic Glastonbury Festival.
“It’s the question I hate the most because the answer is as disappointing to me as it is to Spice Girls fans,” she mentioned.
“We would love to do Glasto. It just doesn’t fit with the current plan with the girls. We want to get back on stage – everything is up in the air.”
The Spice Girls final reunited as a four-piece for a 2019 stadium tour, with Mel B asserting onstage on the final night time of the tour that it might proceed to Australia in early 2020. However, tour dates by no means materialised.
