Mel B
- Profession: Singer
- Place/Date of Birth: Leeds, 29 May 2020
- Associated with: Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell, Mel C, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham
Earlier this week, the Spice Girl launched legal proceedings against Eddie to establish he was the father of their four-month-old daughter, Angel Iris. "I think he’s been extremely disrespectful and I don’t think anybody should be allowed to get away with saying what he said whilst I was pregnant," The Sun quoted her as saying, "even when the DNA test results were in, there was still nothing further said, which I found baffling. After all this, and still nothing? It’s unacceptable."
Speaking on American TV Show Larry King Live, she confessed that she has hated all the publicity. She explained: "I wish we could handle it privately. But when my name is thrown out there when I’m four months pregnant, with the, ’Is it mine, I don’t know,’ of course I’m going to stand up for myself.
"At the end of the day the person that I fell in love with was amazing. The person I know now... I’m kind of appalled. I was waiting and hoping that he would do what he said he was going to do which was take care of the situation and be responsible. I believed that."
Mel B’s secret wedding - Aug 9 2007
Mel B secretly married boyfriend Stephen Belafonte in Las Vegas two months ago, her spokeswoman confirmed today.
The couple appeared to become romantically involved following Scary Spice’s sudden and bitter split with Hollywood comedian Eddie Murphy.
But the Spice Girl’s spokeswoman said today that Mel B - real name Melanie Brown - and film producer Stephen had "been good friends for many years".
The pair married at the Special Memory Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas as they wanted to "make a private commitment to each other", she said.
The singer, who took legal action against Eddie to establish he was the father of their four-month-old daughter Angel Iris, is planning a bigger wedding later in the year.
Her spokeswoman released a statement saying: "Melanie Brown confirmed today that she and long-term friend Stephen Belafonte were married at the Special Memory Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas on Wednesday June 6 2007.
"The couple, who are both 32, had wanted to keep the ceremony out of the public eye as they planned a more formal wedding for friends and family later in the year.
"Melanie and Stephen felt that they ’were at a good point in their lives and wanted to make a private commitment to each other’. They have been good friends for many years."
Eddie ’fathered Spice Girl baby’ - Aug 2 2007
An attorney for Spice Girl Mel B has said that a DNA test has shown that Eddie Murphy is the father of her four-month-old baby.
Murphy has shown "shocking and appalling" conduct since the test, Melanie’s Brown’s attorney Gloria Allred said in a statement.
The test "established paternity but paternity has not been legally acknowledged," she said.
Brown, who was known as Scary Spice, dated Murphy last year .
The 32-year-old singer gave birth to Angel Iris Murphy Brown on April 3. She listed Murphy as the father on the birth certificate.
Murphy took the DNA test in June, Allred said.
Murphy, 46, has five children from his marriage to Nicole Mitchell Murphy, who filed for divorce in 2005.
Brown also has an eight-year-old daughter.
Mel ’didn’t like Eddie’s lifestyle’ - July 25 2007
Mel B has revealed that she and Eddie Murphy were in conflict over his lifestyle before he publicly dumped her.
The star once again insisted that their three-month old baby, Angel Iris, was planned and that the couple had wanted to tie the knot.
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Mel moved to London in an attempt to break into the entertainment business. She answered an advert in entertainment publication The Stage, went to the audition and was selected because of her voice and good looks to be part of the Spice Girls who as we all know, went on to dominate the charts all over the world. Her up-front attitude and in-your-face style has won her a huge gay following.
Now more famous for her boob job (removed after leakage) and pierced tongue (removed when the hole got too big) than her musical talents, Mel’s post-Spice Girls career is in freefall and she’s now desperate to become a TV presenter before it splats. A former Spectacle Wearer of the Year who bites her toenails and detests all forms of salad, Mel says her ideal man would be ’zany’. Let’s hope she chooses more wisely than ex-husband Jimmy ’Gold Card’ Gulzar, her former backing singer who is said to have tearfully serenaded a close male friend with I Will Always Love You at their wedding. She is however the proud mother of baby daughter Phoenix Chi.
Mel B has boughgt her mum a home in Headingley, and to be even closer to her roots, Mel is considering buying herself a home in Alwoodley.
Written in 2002
November 2007