Profile:
Full name: Melanie Janine Brown (aka Scary Spice, Mel G).
Born: May 29 1975 in Leeds.
Star sign: Gemini.
Family: Mother Andrea. Father Martin worked in an engineering factory. Sister Danielle Brown used to be in Emmerdale.
Education: Intake High School, Bramley.
Previous jobs: Worked in newspaper telesales. Auditioned for Cats and Miss Saigon as a dancer and for a role on Coronation Street.
Lives: £2.25 million mansion in Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
Love life: Currently seeing Tom Jones actor Max Beesley. Married Dutch dancer Jimmy Gulzar in 1998. They separated at the turn of the millennium. She says of him in her single Tell Me: "Now I see you didn't have any self-esteem and all you loved was Mel B's money". Look out Oscar Wilde. Former footballer Steve Mulrain kissed and told about his teen romance with Mel. Previous boyfriends include Icelandic boxer/businessman Fjolnir Thorgeirsson.
Children: Phoenix Chi with Jimmy Gulzar (born 1999).
