Beloved Spice Girl Mel B is loving rural life after she swapped a glamorous showbiz life in the city to be a country landowner – Mel already has three goats and 12 chickens
Scary Spice Mel B has swapped her glam showbiz lifestyle to be an animal-loving country landowner.
The singer – real name Melanie Brown – is now more like a farmer than a pop queen. Mel, 49, revealed: “I’ve never been a city person and up here, it’s very rural, rustic and relaxing. I’m completely secluded in my own land, which I feel very fortunate to have.
“I’ve got three goats, 12 chickens, three ducks and two Rottweilers. I take my Rottweilers on walks into the forest when I want to hug some trees, and I get eggs from the chickens. I’m like the Pied Piper – as soon as they hear me come out the front door the chickens and goats all start gathering around and following me.”
The Wannabe hit-maker said she feels more at home in the country but still can’t resist keeping her trademark leopard print decor in her rural pile.
She said: “On one side there’s acres of forest and on the other, I can see my animals.
“I’ve always been more of a homebody, too, which is the complete opposite to how I am on stage where I become the one and only Miss Leopard Print, Scary Spice herself. It’s like yin and yang.
“I just finished decorating my front room – my house is a lovely old barn and there’s a lot of work to do still – and it’s all leopard print wallpaper!
“It sounds like a nightmare but it’s so cosy.”
Mel said she is also trying to encourage her kids to embrace the quiet life in the sticks.
She added: “My childhood was all about making a den in the woods and tents on our bunk beds. Now it’s all about technology. Phoenix is 27 – when I had her, it wasn’t the thing to give your kid an iPad.
“My youngest is 13 and there’s good, educational stuff, if you get the right programme. When my internet goes down, I’m like, ‘Let’s sit and talk’ – while my 17-year-old goes mad.”
More recently, Mel told the Star she has more balls than the rest of the Spice Girls after she signed up to Celebrity Bear Hunt.
“I like challenges. I like going into the unknown,” said Mel after joining the extreme show hosted by former SAS man Bear Grylls.
Mel told the Daily Star Sunday: “I don’t think any of the other Spice Girls would go to the extremes I’ve gone to. They like to play it a little bit safer than I do. When I signed up to do Celebrity Bear Hunt, they messaged and said, ‘What are you doing you crazy thing?’”
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