{"id":107550,"date":"2019-08-26T15:21:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T13:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/26\/a-brutally-honest-evening-with-mel-b-review-scary-spicy-and-surreal\/"},"modified":"2019-08-26T15:21:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T13:21:20","slug":"a-brutally-honest-evening-with-mel-b-review-scary-spicy-and-surreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=107550","title":{"rendered":"A Brutally Honest Evening with Mel B review \u2013 scary, spicy and surreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grand theatre, LeedsThe Spice Girl\u2019s spoken-word show spans her chaotic life story and provides a compelling look at superstardom\u2019s human costThis show is billed as \u201cbrutally honest\u201d so let\u2019s be brutally honest. Mel B\u2019s audience isn\u2019t full \u2013 although neither is it the sales disaster that has seen tabloid speculation that two spoken-word performances will lose her \u00a357,000. She also refutes press reports that she is \u201cunemployed and broke\u201d. However, there\u2019s certainly a story in how working-class teenager Melanie Brown became a Spice Girls superstar and is now a 44-year old mother back home in Leeds, living with her mum.Grilled on a union jack sofa by \u201ccelebrity journalist\u201d\/biographer Louise Gannon, Brown reveals the five hours of hair-weaving and vocal warm-ups that turn her into Scary Spice. She talks about her mixed-race childhood and bisexuality, hints that the Spice Girls will play Glastonbury in 2020 and is joined by her dog, Cookie, who promptly pees on stage. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2019\/aug\/26\/a-brutally-honest-evening-with-mel-b-review-scary-spicy-and-surreal\" target=\"_blank\">A Brutally Honest Evening with Mel B review \u2013 scary, spicy and surreal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand theatre, LeedsThe Spice Girl\u2019s spoken-word show spans her chaotic life story and provides a compelling look at superstardom\u2019s human costThis show is billed as \u201cbrutally honest\u201d so let\u2019s be brutally honest. Mel B\u2019s audience isn\u2019t full \u2013 although neither is it the sales disaster that has seen tabloid speculation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}