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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 29, 1975
Place of Birth
Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Scary Spice
- Melanie Brown
- Spice Girls
- Melanie B
- Melanie Janine Brown
Mel B
1.7 Popularity
Biography
Melanie Janine Brown MBE (born 29 May 1975), commonly known as Melanie B or Mel B, is an English singer, songwriter, and television personality. She rose to fame in the 1990s as a member of the girl group Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Scary Spice. With over 100 million records sold worldwide, the group became the best-selling female group of all time. Since 2007, she has established herself as a television personality and talent show judge. She participated in the fifth season of the American dance competition series Dancing with the Stars (2007). Between 2011 and 2016, she served as a guest and main judge on the Australian and British versions of The X Factor. She also co-presented the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars for one season (2012). She judged on the NBC reality show America's Got Talent (2013–2018), served as a coach and mentor on The Voice Kids Australia (2014) and judged on The Masked Singer Australia (2022). From 2016 to 2018, she co-presented Lip Sync Battle UK alongside rapper Professor Green.
Known For
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Self - Interviewed Guest
Alison Hammond's Big Weekend
2025
🎬
0.0
Narrator (voice)
Happy Town
2025
6.8
Self - Contestant
Celebrity Bear Hunt
2025
1.0
Self
Romesh Ranganathan's Parents' Evening
2024
3.5
Self - Guest Judge
M&S: Dress The Nation
2024
10.0
Self - Judge
America's Got Talent: Fantasy League
2024
7.6
Self
Special Forces: World's Toughest Test
2023
6.2
Host
A New Diva's Christmas Carol
2022
7.0
Self
Trailblazers: A Rocky Mountain Road Trip
2022
6.4
Self - Guest
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Credits
Alison Hammond's Big Weekend
as Self - Interviewed Guest
2025
0.0
🎬
Happy Town
as Narrator (voice)
2025
0.0
Celebrity Bear Hunt
as Self - Contestant
2025
6.8
Romesh Ranganathan's Parents' Evening
as Self
2024
1.0
M&S: Dress The Nation
as Self - Guest Judge
2024
3.5
America's Got Talent: Fantasy League
as Self - Judge
2024
10.0
Special Forces: World's Toughest Test
as Self
2023
7.6
A New Diva's Christmas Carol
as Host
2022
6.2
Trailblazers: A Rocky Mountain Road Trip
as Self
2022
7.0
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self - Guest
2022
6.4
Sherri
as Self - Guest
2022
4.2
Piers Morgan Uncensored
as Self
2022
2.5
Spice Girls: 25 ans déjà, qui sont-elles vraiment?
as Self (archive footage)
2022
0.0
The Weakest Link
as Self - Contestant
2021
6.0
Queen of the Universe
as Self - Judge
2021
4.2
An Audience with Adele
as Self
2021
8.3
Spice Girls: How Girl Power Changed Britain
as Self - Scary Spice
2021
6.0
Blankety Blank
as Self - Panellist
2021
7.0
Spice Girls at the BBC
as Self - Scary Spice
2021
7.6
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
as Self - Guest Team Captain
2021
7.8
When Ruby Wax Met...
as Self - Scary Spice (archive footage)
2021
6.7
Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains
as Self
2021
7.0
Name That Tune
as Self - Contestant
2021
6.8
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
as Self - Expert
2020
5.8
The BRITs at 40
as Self
2020
0.0
The Circle
as Self - Contestant
2020
6.8
The Circle
as Self
2020
6.8
Mask Singer
as Soleil
2019
5.6
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
as Self - Guest Judge
2019
7.2
The Masked Singer Australia
as Self - Panelist
2019
9.8
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
6.4
The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan
as Self
2019
5.5
Shopping with Keith Lemon
as Self
2019
5.0
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
as Self - Guest
2018
7.5
Drop the Mic
as Self
2017
6.1
Killing Hasselhoff
as Self
2017
4.5
Chocolate City: Vegas Strip
as Brandy
2016
5.9
Lip Sync Battle UK
as Self - Host
2016
3.0
The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World
as Self - Scary Spice (archive footage) (uncredited)
2015
8.7
Celebrity Name Game
as Self
2014
5.3
Running Wild with Bear Grylls
as Self
2014
6.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.8
The Twelve Trees of Christmas
as Cordelia
2013
5.9
Through the Keyhole
as Self
2013
6.0
Deal With It
as Self
2013
0.0
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
as Self
2013
7.7
Hollywood Game Night
as Self
2013
6.5
The Last Leg
as Self
2013
5.4
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
as Self - Scary Spice
2012
8.7
London 2012 Olympic Games
as Self
2012
0.0
London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music
as Self - Scary Spice
2012
6.5
The Jonathan Ross Show
as Self
2011
5.1
Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell
as Self
2011
6.5
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Chris Moyles' Quiz Night
as Self
2009
5.3
RuPaul's Drag Race
as Self - Guest Judge
2009
7.5
Celebrity Juice
as Self
2008
6.5
Celebrity Juice
as Self - Team Captain
2008
6.5
The Singing Office
as Self - Host
2008
0.0
🎬
Keith Lemon's Very Brilliant World Tour
as Self
2008
0.0
Spice Girls: Giving You Everything
as Self - Scary Spice
2007
9.7
Spice Girls: The Return of the Spice Girls Tour
as Self - Scary Spice
2007
7.8
Spice Girls: Zig-A-Zig-Ahhh Interviews
as Self - Scary Spice
2007
5.5
Spice Girls: Greatest Hits
as Self - Scary Spice
2007
10.0
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
as Self
2007
7.4
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
as Sylvia Burke
2007
6.9
America's Got Talent
as Self - Judge
2006
5.7
Telling Lies
as Maggie Thomas
2006
5.3
Girls and Boys - Sex and British Pop
as Self
2005
0.0
Dancing with the Stars
as Self - Contestant
2005
6.0
Dancing with the Stars
as Self - Guest Judge
2005
6.0
Spice Girls: Unauthorized
as Self - Scary Spice
2005
10.0
The X Factor
as Self - Judge
2005
5.0
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2005
6.8
Miley's New Year's Eve Party
as Self - Host
2004
7.2
Big Fat Quiz
as Self - Contestant
2004
7.6
Project Runway
as Self - Guest Judge
2004
6.2
Dancing with the Stars
as Self - Host
2004
3.8
The Seat Filler
as Sandie
2004
4.3
LD 50 Lethal Dose
as Louise
2003
3.5
Burn It
as Claire
2003
6.3
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
as Self
2002
6.0
Raw Spice
as Self - Scary Spice
2001
7.8
Spice Girls: The Live One
as Self - Scary Spice
1999
10.0
TV total
as Self
1999
6.2
Spice Girls: Back In Britain!
as Self - Scary Spice
1998
10.0
Spice Girls: Live at Wembley Stadium
as Self - Scary Spice
1998
6.6
Prince: Beautiful Strange
as Self
1998
0.0
Spice Girls in America: A Tour Story
as Self - Scary Spice
1998
10.0
Spice Girls: Spiceworld Tour Live in Madrid
as Self - Scary Spice
1998
10.0
Spice Girls: Girls Talk!
as Self - Scary Spice
1998
9.0
Spice Exposed
as Self - Scary Spice (archive footage)
1998
7.3
Spice Girls: Live In Concert - Wild!
as Self
1998
7.7
Spice World
as Melanie B - Scary Spice
1997
4.9
An Audience with the Spice Girls
as Self
1997
10.0
Spice Girls: One Hour of Girl Power!
as Self - Scary Spice
1997
9.3
Spice Girls: Girl Power! Live in Istanbul
as Self - Scary Spice
1997
7.8
An Audience with Elton John
as Self
1997
0.0
🎬
Spice Power
as Self - Scary Spice (archive footage)
1997
0.0
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
as Self
1996
7.0
🎬
Ruby Wax Meets
as Self - Scary Spice
1996
6.0
Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
as Self - Scary Spice
1995
7.6
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.5
Le monde est à vous
as Self - Scary Spice
1987
0.0
MTV Video Music Awards
as Self - Scary Spice
1984
7.6
Wetten, dass..?
as Self - Scary Spice
1981
5.3
An Audience with...
as Self - Scary Spice
1978
5.3
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Scary Spice - Musical Guest
1975
6.9
Great Performances
as Self - Scary Spice
1971
5.3
Top of the Pops
as Self - Scary Spice
1964
6.6
Top of the Pops
as Self - Host / Performer
1964
6.6
Top of the Pops
as Self - Host
1964
6.6
Miss Universe
as Host
1955
6.0
Bambi-Verleihung
as Self - Scary Spice
1948
9.0
🎬
The Windrush Generation
as Self
N/A
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