{"id":180969,"date":"2025-11-14T21:15:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/180969\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:15:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:15:20","slug":"all-saints-melanie-blatt-admits-i-will-have-beef-with-the-spice-girls-until-i-die-after-fans-claimed-she-was-bitter-about-rival-bands-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/180969\/","title":{"rendered":"All Saints’ Melanie Blatt admits ‘I will have beef with the Spice Girls until I die’ after fans claimed she was ‘bitter’ about rival band’s success"},"content":{"rendered":"

All Saints<\/a> star Melanie Blatt<\/a> has joked she’ll forever have beef with the Spice Girls<\/a> after fans claimed she is ‘bitter’ over their rival band’s success.<\/p>\n

The 50-year-old singer appeared on Sunday Brunch with hosts Simon Rimmer and Tim Lovejoy where they discussed the\u00a0BBC<\/a>‘s new documentary Girlbands Forever.<\/p>\n

In the recent documentary, Melanie expressed frustration that All Saints had worked hard for years, only for the ‘manufactured’ Spice Girls to ‘blow up so quickly’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All Saints was made up of Melanie alongside Shaznay Lewis<\/a>, Nicole Appleton<\/a> and Natalie Appleton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Discussing the rivalry between the two former bands, Melanie touched on how fans claimed she ‘comes across bitter’.<\/p>\n

She shared: ‘A lot of them are saying “you come across as bitter,”‘ before pausing and announcing: ‘I am.’<\/p>\n

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All Saints star Melanie Blatt has joked she’ll forever have beef with the Spice Girls after fans claimed she is ‘bitter’ over their rival band’s success (pictured in 2023)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In the recent documentary, Melanie expressed frustration that All Saints had worked hard for years, only for the ‘manufactured’ Spice Girls to ‘blow up so quickly’ (L-R Emma Bunton, Mel C, Victoria Beckham, Geri Horner and Mel B in 1996)<\/p>\n

Melanie and the hosts began laughing as she continued: ‘I am bitter. I’m bitter and I’m jealous.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

The former pop star then went on to share how she has a really close friendship with Emma Bunton, despite the fact they were in competing girlbands.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She continued: ‘I love Emma, she’s a good mate.’<\/p>\n

Melanie continued: ‘Mel C I know a little bit and she’s amazing. It was more the concept of having music and selling crisps and lollipops and stuff like that that I had a problem with.’<\/p>\n

‘We worked so hard, even being called a girlband it felt like a dirty word to us because we just wanted to be a band. We didn’t want to have to be put into this box or that box.’<\/p>\n

She concluded: ‘I did have a major problem. I’ll have beef until I die with them. I will.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Talking about the Spice Girls’ success, she says: ‘I genuinely had a problem with them, all the years of work we’d put in and then they just came out and blew up so quickly.<\/p>\n

‘And were obviously manufactured. The band was made for a purpose.’<\/p>\n

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All Saints were made up of Melanie alongside Shaznay Lewis, Nicole Appleton and Natalie Appleton (pictured in 1999)<\/p>\n

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Emma Bunton pictured with Melanie back in 2003, alongside Justin Timberlake and Shaznay Lewis<\/p>\n

All Saints were together until 2001 and reunited between 2001 and 2006. Then again between 2008 and 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some of their best songs include Never Ever, Black Coffee, Under The Bridge, All Hooked Up and Bootie Call.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Spice Girls are arguably one of the most popular and well-known girl groups of all time.<\/p>\n

The band, made up of Victoria Beckham, Geri Halliwell, Mel B, Emma Bunton and Mel C, was created in 1994 by Chris Herbert – and are known for tunes such as Wannabe, Spice Up Your Life, Viva Forever and 2 Become 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the documentary, a retro clip of Noel Gallagher giving his opinion the band is played out.<\/p>\n

The singer, now 58, is best known for being lead guitarist of rock band Oasis – alongside his brother Liam, 53.<\/p>\n

He says: ‘There is a big they’re a big money corporate machine, aren’t they?<\/p>\n

‘Advertising crisps and cans of coke, and all that nonsense.<\/p>\n

‘They’ve got a single out now that you can only buy if you buy 20 cans of Pepsi.<\/p>\n

‘But good luck to them, they’re young girls or are they are as young as they say, that’s what I want to know.<\/p>\n

‘I’ll tell you this right, if Geri spice is 24 then she’s going to look f**ing rough when she’s 30.’<\/p>\n

Girlbands Forever airs on BBC Two and is available to stream on iPlayer.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Saints star Melanie Blatt has joked she’ll forever have beef with the Spice Girls after fans claimed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[118,18,117,19,17,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-180969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115550127954515248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}