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Mel C: 'Spice Girls Made Me Physically Ill'

Two million quid for belting out a few hits in front of thousands of adoring fans sounds like money for old rope – but it wasn’t enough to tempt Mel C to rejoin the Spice Girls.

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The reason? The 42-year-old singer says playing the part of Sporty Spice made her physically sick.

“Depression, eating disorders, obsessive over-exercising. I went through all of it,” the star told The Mail on Sunday. “When the Spice Girls were at their biggest, I couldn’t even really look at myself in the mirror because I didn’t like what I saw.

“I never said anything to anyone. I was trying to hide everything from myself. When your life is that crazy, travelling everywhere, performing all over the place, constantly on the move, you don’t have to acknowledge everything what is going on in your life.”

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The singer also confessed that growing up in public as a member of the Girl Power quintet took a terrible toll on her self-esteem – particularly because of her heartbreaking belief that she was the ‘plain one’ in the band.

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“The constant scrutiny, the feeling you have no control, it’s as if the best and the worst happens all together and you can’t even come to terms with it in your own head. You end up with no idea who you are at all,” she said.

Mel’s decision to snub the gigs hasn’t gone down to well with the other Spice Girls by all accounts, with bandmate Mel B’s brash comment that the “other two b******s didn’t want to do it!” on an episode of James Corden’s US chat show suggesting a reunion is off the cards for a long, long time.

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“It’s a bit awkward at the moment, to be honest,” the Wannabe singer explains. “It’s going to be, isn’t it? But I do know we’ll get past it. We’ve all been through so much together. No one made a fuss about Victoria. It was just about why I wasn’t doing it.”

The three remaining Spice Girls are set to launch a BBC talent show to replace the gaping holes left by Mel and Victoria. It sounds like Mel is unlikely to be tuning in.