A Spice Girls star has reportedly found love - with a friend she has known for 25 years. Mel C - real name Melanie Chisholm, known as Sporty Spice - is reportedly in a relationship with an art dealer friend.
Mel is reportedly dating gallery owner Cassius Colman. “Mel and Cassius enjoy each other’s company and get on really well," a source told the Sun newspaper. “She isn’t rushing into anything and they have enjoyed a few dates in London.
“It is all going well and she seems really happy.” Mel and ex Joe Marshall split last year, calling time on their romance in August after seven years together.
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In the nineties, Mel C enjoyed a brief month-long fling with Robbi Williams. She was also romantically linked to record producer Jake Davies and Red Hot Chili Peppers lead singer Anthony Kiedis. But Chisholm confirmed in 2022 that they had only been friends
In 2000, Chisholm and Jason "J" Brown of the boy band Five had an on-again, off-again relationship. Mel C was in a relationship with Thomas Starr for ten years. The couple split in 2012.
Three years before they split, Mel gave birth to her first child, a daughter. She later told the BBC : "Being a mum was so liberating because for the first time in my adult life, it wasn't all about me. It made me not only realise I had a huge responsibility to her but I have a huge responsibility to myself. In being her teacher, I had to treat myself better."
Last week, Mel and bandmate Bay Spice - real name Emma Bunton - stepped out together in a rare joint appearance. The duo posed on the red carpet of the Julie Cunningham & Company how did we get here? press night afterparty in London on Tuesday.
