Begin Again Moments: Melanie C's Love Story!

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0:37I'm so excited. Yes. Yes. And I have new management and a lot has changed. So it's just been this kind of voyage of discovery. Yeah. And I am having, and also my new partner, what he has done for me is he's made me live. I've always had I'm such a workaholic but I've always gone work life and then I realized it's like work life so and I love my work and you know of course I'm a mum as well on top of everything so what I've realized is no no no no work life all together that felt like a little moment from like a Ben Stiller movie there but that is that is absolutely right isn't it because I love my work and but before I didn't really have much of a life yeah you know I've been quite isolated and I've been quite lonely um but now it's like no I'm living I'm living every day and I'm just I'm the happiest I've ever been and the most creative I've ever been the most confident I've ever been and yeah isn't it funny because in your 20s oh you would have been going i will not be saying that in my 50s oh no oh my gosh like i think it's so funny when you're like you see things yeah i think there's even like interviews are going oh god like when you're in your 30s you're like oh if only but no not if only because would you go back hell no and it's changing you know here i am making music yeah i'm in my 50s there are so many incredible women who are you know we are still being taken seriously yeah in areas that in the past maybe not so yeah we're still changing things i'm very i'm very interested in um women with power um and i and i'm not just talking about money really i'm just talking about a sense of self or um confidence and how hard that is sometimes for a man to navigate and how hard it is sometimes for women who are like that to meet men and for men not to um for men to know what to do with them yeah because i don't want to slag off men we love men we want we want to um we want to live side by side be partners equals like but um we know that it's quite difficult sometimes because we've gone off and gone yeah career all empowered yeah and like a little bit yeah but well we need to kind of help them yeah find themselves too you know so we can all come together absolutely um and i feel like it's really difficult for guys to go out with women who are how hard is it for you melanie c when you find when you found yourself at times single because who do you trust?

3:34How do you meet a guy? Like, what do you do? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been interesting. So, yeah, I was with my daughter's dad for 10 years and then I met somebody else. We were together for quite a while and then I found myself single for the first time when it was all about the apps and that is like a whole new world. But just, you're Melanie C. You can't go on an app. Like imagine swiping. Well, there's the one, isn't there? There's the one all the celebrities go on. Yeah, there's that one. So can I just ask you, so is Raya like, is it chock-a-block of celebrities? Do you have to kind of get like green lit to go on it?

4:17I love that. It is. It's actually really good fun. Not that I ever want to be on it again. Did you have it? There was a quite, I read somewhere, there was a really funny nickname that you and your friends had. It was. Oh, Boy Bingo. but it's such a good thing don't you find right so excuse me when you if you find yourself single right you are like never want a relationship ever again no i'm off men forget it and i think women actually can do that i think men can't as much as i would have been happy to be a spinster yeah alone yeah i just have a lot of cats but isn't it usually a girl's night yeah when you like yeah you need to get back on the horse and then the apps their profile set up which is a euphemism you need to get back on the horse except for anything less um so yeah so that was really interesting and fun yeah rey it is there's a lot of celebrities there's a lot of people who isn't it's all creative industries but it is quite fun going oh i'm getting a saw today and how long were you on there for before you found chris um that's her bernie knows name an aussie yeah right like i'm an honorary aussie like my family oh my gosh i love it australia great great great people great people as well um gosh i don't know maybe about six months right and then we met and it was so funny because how long were you talking did you talk much before you met yeah so we we started talking and i think it was like august time and I had a DJ tour arranged for the November of that year 2023 I think it was and uh yeah so it was like if this he's so hot this is definitely worth dinner you know and we've been together ever since our first dinner date and what was it so you were talking because I know that there is a running theme through your life of needing to feel safe

6:24and for me I think that's like a relationship is somewhere but it's quite hard to really really feel safe what yeah what was it about Chris that made him safe enough to go out for dinner with it's not just that he's hot you must have seen something and what did you see yeah He has, it's very strange talking about him publicly, he has a very calm quality. Right. And it's something that I've not experienced in a partner before. He's, yeah, he just, he feels safe. He is, yeah, he's just beautiful. He never gets involved where he, you know, he just reads situations really well. So he's emotionally intelligent.

7:11Yeah, he's really intelligent. He's very creative. He's very kind. And yeah, he just, yeah, he makes me feel safe. That's a very good way of putting it. And he also, I think, as somebody that works in the creative industry and you get to do some very exciting things. I know sometimes that people, if they don't feel confident in their partner or that their partner is kind of proud of them or they'll downplay things that are happening to them. But he's a cheerleader, right? Oh, yeah, absolutely. That's what's so nice. he's been to a lot of my work engagements and you know sometimes if i'm djing and if i just catch sight of him it's just like it's yeah it's like your little support network it's really nice um now i love being michael's plus one so i love going to things where i go as he's the one that's been invited yeah and i'm his plus one do you get that well it's been a bit tricky for us to really be able to do that because we've been in Europe a lot right and a lot of his his world is still like his friends and his family and everybody is still in Australia but we go back um new year and I look forward to being his plus one it's nice being someone's plus one it's less pressure isn't it oh it's so good yeah and also you get to see them in their yeah place of excellence and you can be like, look at them, they're so good at what they do.

8:50Like, oh, so nice. Absolutely. It's, you know, Australia, England, I know this because half my family are there. It's quite a long way away. It's a long way away. The law is, it's very kind, actually, obviously, being Commonwealth. He can spend a lot of time here, but he can't stay here permanently. Yeah, we need to look at these. So you just have to look at kind of to-ing and fro-ing a bit. Add up our days. I can think of worse places to go to. Yes, I know. But what's wonderful as well is I'm back in Australia for it. I'm doing The Voice. I don't know. This will probably be announced by then.

9:25Yes. But yes, doing The Voice again next year. Yes, amazing. And how nice is that fun being a coach? It's not my most natural place to be. I love working with the singers. Yes. I love like you know sharing my experience with them but the whole judging thing I find tricky yes yeah oh your intention yeah good yeah so judging very very yes hard it's hard oh love you um you know you've got a lot going on and this is this is something that again for our audience you know you are in your 50s and it's so inspiring to see someone you know you did your DJing you've talked about the humility of starting from scratch and not being able to even get on a set of decks in a club until you were ace you know the work that went into that yeah the time and the jeopardy but the jeopardy but this is really important for everybody to see yeah if you want to do something just do it never too late it's never too late that's what i thought i because when um you know glim fussell yeah yeah so it was glim that encouraged me to have a lesson and i was just like am i too old to learn a new skill and oh my goodness absolutely never i'm so pleased that i did it honestly it has brought so much into my life it's changed everything and everybody else's you know yeah the church and the altar of the dj so this this podcast i'm not sure if you knew this but i um started it at around the time when i had my brain tumor and i knew but nobody else really knew oh wow um but when it was like what what would you like it to be about lots of people thought maybe it would be around the menopause and yeah and sort of perimenopause menopause but I wanted it to be around living a life that you've loved so that when you do look at dying and your own mortality and it becomes quite a possibility that you feel ready to leave yeah because you've had a really good go you've done all the things that you wanted to.

11:47Even if they didn't succeed, you've had a go. And isn't that the thing that people often will say? You don't regret the things you did. You regret the things you didn't do. So, let's just talk about, is it 30 years next year? Yeah. I know. I know. I know. 30 years of Spice Girls next year and the release of Sweat. Yes. It's a big year. It's a big year coming. I am really excited. I know, I'm so excited too. I am coming to see you DJ a lot. I'm going to now start following you around the world. I will let you know everywhere you're going to be. And also... I'm getting on a plane. I'm coming. And I'm playing Brixton.

12:28It's not until October next year. That's my birthday. Okay, so you understand the premise of this podcast now? Yes. 30 years next year. Yeah. Sweat. Everything's happening for you. Like, it's so exciting. What? would you like your legacy to be?

12:52I could die happy because I know the legacy that the Spice Girls have left is, I don't think you could top it. I am so proud. We are all proud. We talk about it. What we, you know, people approach me all the time. I get people coming up talking about whether it's a song, an album, the Spice Girls, the whole thing. And people say how it changed their life, how it made them feel like they belonged. You know, some people say it saved their life. You know, for people to say that to you, and I don't take that personally. I'm like, hey, I did this. But I was part of something that has made a real cultural impact on the world.

13:34How many people get the chance to say that? It's amazing. And also how you share. In fact, this has been an amazing chat. and there's been so much that you've said that I know will have an enormous impact on people um watching and listening yeah and I'm so grateful to you for your honesty and being so candid well you know I I learned when I first started talking openly about depression it was at a time when it wasn't spoken about very much and I didn't feel like I was really ready to talk about it because I was still actually really suffering at the time. But the moment I realized that was helping other people, that felt really good.

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