Spice Girl Melanie C heading to Australia for big TV gig

Loved up with her Aussie partner, one member of the Spice Girls is headed our way, having landed a primetime job on Seven.

Seems Sporty Spice Melanie C can’t get enough of Australia – after several visits to our shores in recent years, she’s today been announced as a new member of The Voice Australia’s panel of coaches.

Melanie C will join American singer-songwriter Richard Marx, former Boyzone singer Ronan Keating and returning coach (and sole Aussie) Kate Miller-Heidke on the coaching panel for The Voice 2025.

It’s not just business drawing Melanie C to our shores: She’s been dating Australian model Chris Dingwall since at least the middle of last year.

Sporty Spice Melanie C will head back to our shores next month for a new TV gig.

The pair went public at Wimbledon in London last July, days after they were spotted walking hand-in-hand at the iconic Glastonbury festival.

Earlier in 2024, Mel’s extensive Australian DJ tour – her second visit to our shores within six months – appeared to double as an extended holiday for the couple, with stops at Brisbane’s lush Calile Hotel and the super-private Qualia resort in the Whitsundays.

And more than six months later, the couple’s relationship looks like it’s still going strong: Dingwall shared a selection of highlights from their time together to mark Mel’s 51st birthday earlier this month.

Melanie C and her Aussie partner, Chris Dingwall.

The low-key couple have been together since early 2024.

“Happy Birthday @melaniecmusic (for yesterday)! Been a beautiful year. Looking forward to another amazing one with you,” he wrote on Instagram.

“Thank you my love,” was her response in the comment section.

Melanie C is undoubtedly the most private of the five Spice Girls when it comes to her love life, largely keeping her relationships out of the public eye since a string of romances with high-profile musicians in the late 90s and early noughties.

She has a teenage daughter from a longtime relationship with ex-partner Thomas Starr. The pair split in 2012 after a decade together.

After that, Melanie dated her manager, Joe Marshall, for seven years before they split in 2022.

In a statement released by Seven today, Melanie C said she was “so incredibly excited” to be heading back to Australia to join The Voice.

This year’s panel of Voice coaches.

“I have always cherished my trips down under over the years, so to be there with such a super line-up of coaches in one of my favourite countries is a real honour. Also very happy to be missing some of the British winter! Very much looking forward to unearthing some brilliant talent to join Team Melanie,” she said.

The new season will also serve as a return to The Voice for Keating, who previously appeared as a coach almost a decade ago back on the show’s fifth season.

The Irish crooner married Aussie Storm Uechtritz in 2015 and is a frequent visitor to our shores.

With Sonia Kruger returning as host, the 14th season of The Voice Australia goes into production in Sydney next month and will premiere later this year on Seven.

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