Mel B was confronted with a trivia query about Spice Ladies hit 2 Grow to be 1 on Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel (BBC/Andre Csillag/REX/Shutterstock)
Scary Spice Mel B breathed an enormous sigh of reduction whereas showing on Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel on Saturday evening, coming near giving the mistaken reply to a query in regards to the Spice Girls.
The brand new BBC gameshow, which is hosted by the comic, sees three individuals be part of collectively in a bid to win an enormous sum of cash, receiving assist from a number of superstar ‘specialists’, who’re sitting round a spinning wheel.
In the course of the first episode of the brand new sequence on Saturday November 28, contestant Leome was fortunately matched with Mel B when confronted with a query in regards to the Spice Ladies.
The query was: ‘Who sings the primary line within the 1996 UK #1 single ‘2 Grow to be 1,’ with 4 potential solutions given: ‘Mel C, Emma, Geri or Victoria’.
At first, Mel B appeared completely certain she knew the reply to the query, stating emphatically that it was Mel C, aka Sporty Spice.
‘So we’ve all bought fairly distinctive voices. Emma’s voice is sort of excessive and form of soothing, Victoria’s is just a little bit low, Geri’s is even decrease than Victoria’s, Mel C’s just a little bit excessive, much like Emma’s, however extra distinctive,’ she stated.
The Spice Ladies launched 2 Grow to be 1 in 1996 (Image: Ray Burmiston/Photoshot/Getty Photographs)
‘So we did have a sample after we used to put in writing our music collectively. So normally it could at all times be usually both Mel C or Emma that may begin off the track. So it’s positively Mel C. 100 per cent.’
Nonetheless, a second later, a seed of doubt was planted in Mel B’s head.
‘I hope it’s, is it? Maintain on a minute, maintain on a minute,’ she stated, as Michael remarked: ‘Oh no, she’s having a panic.’
Mel B then started to marvel if it was Emma who sang the primary line of the track, as Leome initially guessed.
‘I’m now questioning myself. You see, Mel C and Emma do have an identical… oh my… why can’t I keep in mind that now? I’m not joking. I ought to know this,’ she stated.
Nonetheless, in the long run, she determined to go together with her intuition, placing Mel C ahead as her suggestion, which Leome selected to run with.
Luckily for him, the reply turned out to be right, serving to him add £10,000 to the prize pot.
‘Don’t doubt your self! My gosh!’ Mel B stated when the reply was introduced.
Simply goes to point out how far intestine intuition can take you!
In a fully unimaginable flip of occasions, Leome ended up successful a whopping £76,000 on the finish of the present.
Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel returns subsequent Saturday evening at 8.30pm on BBC One.
