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Spice Girls vocalist Melanie “Mel C” Chisholm responded to rumors astir her sexuality aft she was assumed to beryllium a lesbian complete nan years owed to her tomboy aesthetic.
“You’ve sewage each nan different ones and nan 1 who’s successful nan progressive deterioration … it was assumed aliases suggested that I was gay,” nan “Wannabe” songstress, besides known arsenic Sporty Spice, said connected a caller section of “The Mitch Churi Chat Show.”
“I don’t personally person a problem pinch that,” she continued. “I mean, it’s nary of their friggin’ business. But I conscionable thought … to guidelines it connected somebody’s look aliases nan measurement that they dress, yeah, it was a spot s–t of them.”
Chisholm, 52, shared that nan rumors led to nan ’90s woman group gaining “an unthinkable pursuing successful nan LGBTQ+ community.”
“This is bigger than us,” she stated.
The hitmaker formed nan Spice Girls alongside Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice), Emma Bunton (Baby Spice), Melanie “Mel B” Brown (Scary Spice) and Geri Halliwell-Horner (Ginger Spice) successful 1994.
Chisholm’s diversion and loose-fitting attire — compared to her bandmates’ glitter looks — were among nan reasons fans made assumptions astir her sexuality, which she recovered to beryllium “very rude.”
“People said I looked for illustration a lesbian because I had short hair,” she told nan UK-based publication “Attitude” in 2022.
“But really tin you look for illustration a lesbian? I find it very rude and highly violative to cheery people… It’s a stereotypical thing,” nan “Viva Forever” vocalist continued.
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Chisholm, however, proudly embraced nan rumors, sharing that she’s been capable to execute astatine galore Pride events complete nan years.
The “Spice Up Your Life” vocalist is currently successful a narration pinch Chris Dingwall.
“Nobody knows this, but we really met connected Raya,” she shared connected nan “Life Uncut Podcast” last year.
“I don’t cognize really overmuch to divulge, but I was successful a narration previously,” Chisholm said, alluding to her romance pinch shaper Joe Marshall from 2015 to 2022.
“But past you get to this point, and it’s usually connected a drunken nighttime retired pinch female friends, and it’s like, ‘You gotta get backmost retired there. You gotta commencement dating,’ truthful that’s erstwhile nan Raya thingy, nan profile, was group up,” she said.
Chishom is besides nan mother to 17-year-old daughter, Scarlett Star. She shares nan teen pinch her erstwhile semipermanent partner, Thomas Starr, whom she dated from 2002 to 2012.
