Mel B has spilled some Spice Girl secrets as she revealed which member of the girl band was a secret smoker.
Appearing on Saturday’s upcoming episode of The Jonathan Ross Show, the singer, 48, was joined by Billie Piper as the pair reminisced on old times having collectively climbed the pop charts at the same time.
As the pair chatted about their time on Top Of The Pops, Billie admitted she used to smoke with the girl band in their dressing room when she was 15-year-old.
Billie says: ‘I was such a huge fan so imagine being 15 in a dressing room with The Spice Girls, I used to smoke cigarettes with you guys in the dressing room, you’d give me fags.’
Interjecting, Mel then reveals who the unexpected secret smoker in the Spice Girls was as she interrupts ‘That would have been me and Emma.’
Mel B reveals which of the Spice Girls is a secret smoker as she confesses they would slip teenage Billie Piper cigarettes during Top Of The Pops in Saturday’s upcoming episode of The Jonathan Ross Show
As the pair chatted about their time on Top Of The Pops, Billie admitted she used to smoke with the girl band in their dressing room when she was 15-year-old (Billie pictured in 1998)
Billie was thrust into the spotlight at the tender age of 15 with her debut single, Because We Want To.
Reminiscing with Mel, the singer-turned-actress adds: ‘Yeah, it was you and Emma and we would sit on the floor at Top of the Pops smoking cigarettes and ashing in a plastic cup, it was heaven.’
Billie shares Winston, 14, and Eugene, 10 with ex husband Laurence Fox and a daughter Tallulah, four, with her partner Johnny Lloyd.
Asked what her children make of her career, Billie jokes: ‘My elder one couldn’t give a sh*t, which I actually like, I think that’s a healthier response.
‘I think I’ve got a fan in my youngest child, she will watch my music videos and ask to play my songs in the car and I’ll oblige.’
Discussing her entry into the music industry, Billie says: ‘I was 14 when I signed my record deal, the same age as my eldest son which blows my mind but he isn’t that interested which I think is fine.’
She added: ‘They have no interest in me being in Doctor Who but they will come to a convention where there’s access to real famous people, genuine stars if there is access to Stranger Things, Marvel or Lord of the Rings.’
Meanwhile this year also marks the Spice Girl’s 30th anniversary, and Jonathan asks Mel if they have any plans to commemorate the momentous milestone.
Billie says: ‘I was such a huge fan so imagine being 15 in a dressing room with The Spice Girls , I used to smoke cigarettes with you guys in the dressing room, you’d give me fags’
The singer-turned-actress adds: ‘Yeah, it was you and Emma and we would sit on the floor at Top of the Pops smoking cigarettes and ashing in a plastic cup, it was heaven’
Mel revealed that Emma Bunton was the secret smoker of the group (pictured in 1997)
Jonathan Ross is also joined by Leo Reich (left) and Paul Rudd (right) for the show, which will also feature a performance from Cat Burns
Mel reveals: ‘We are wanting to do something and we are but I can’t really tell you because I’ll get kicked out of the WhatsApp group again so I have to be really careful.’
The star then admitted she often gets kicked out the group due to her sheer powers of manifestation.
She explained: ‘I get kicked out of the group because I get so excited whenever I talk about Spice Girls and the more I say something’s going to happen, I will it that much that it does happen like the Olympics and the 2019 tour.’
Teasing what’s to potentially come from the legendary group, Mel goes on to say: ‘We are all in talks, something is going to be announced.’
The Jonathan Ross Show airs Saturday at 21.35PM on ITV1 and ITVX.
This year also marks the Spice Girl’s 30th anniversary, and Mel teases that they have something in the pipeline (pictured in 1995)
