{"id":440014,"date":"2026-05-09T07:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440014\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:55:10","slug":"mel-c-im-sporty-spice-ive-always-been-active-but-id-never-felt-sexy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440014\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel C: \u2018I\u2019m Sporty Spice. I\u2019ve always been active, but I\u2019d never felt sexy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe pop veteran reflects on her Spice Girls fame, her personal struggles, her new album and why she\u2019s feeling far more comfortable now, with herself and her music\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Melanie Chisholm on DJing:  'I wanted to be able to play my own music, without having to mash them up with other songs'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7d889a42-f225-4764-8bab-4beacbe15f5b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Melanie Chisholm on DJing:  &#8216;I wanted to be able to play my own music, without having to mash them up with other songs&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Melanie Chisholm \u2013 aka Sporty Spice or Mel C \u2013 is talking about a \u201cwave of love and emotion\u201d she experienced walking out to more than 74,000 Spice Girls fans in Croke Park in late May 2019. \u201cOur Irish fans have always been so loyal,\u201d she explains from London. \u201cWhat an amazing reception they gave us that night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">That Dublin performance was the Spice Girls\u2019 first live show since the 2012 Olympic Games in London, when all five original members played at the closing ceremony. Posh Spice sat out the Spice World tour in 2019. But Scary, Baby, Ginger and Sporty played to more than 700,000 fans, in 13 sold-out stadium shows, which generated an estimated \u00a363m in revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pop veteran reflects on her Spice Girls fame, her personal struggles, her new album and why she\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,279],"class_list":["post-440014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-review-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}