To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video Spice Girls icon Mel B shared the unlikely source behind her trademark leopard print look in last night’s Celebrity Gogglebox . The 49-year-old singer appeared on the Channel 4 reality series on Friday with her daughter Phoenix Chi where she spilled the secrets behind the clothing pattern she is regularly spotted in – leopard print. While watching an episode of Outrageous Homes on Channel 4 one of the guests on the show, Jane, showed up in a leopard print dress – a fact Mel quickly picked up on.
‘Why leopard print?’ Phoenix questioned, ‘I’ve always wanted to ask you that.’ ‘Because I’m addicted to it,’ Mel promptly replied. When Phoenix pushed: ‘Out of all the colors that are in the world.
..?’ Mel continued: ‘Because I saw Bet Lynch on Coronation Street when I was younger and she was wearing leopard print and I thought “Oh god, one day I’m going to have everything leopard print”.
And I did.’ Lest we forget Mel’s iconic leopard print catsuit that she often wears on stage. Meanwhile, Bet Lynch, played by Julie Goodyear, appeared in an array of leopard print items while her character was on the soap opera.
The beloved character last appeared on the show in 2003. In 2019, after her divorce from Stephen Beresford, the Scary Spice spoke about how her costumes helped her regain her power while on a Spice Girls tour. ‘It felt brilliant,�.
