Mel C has offered an honest and characteristically self-deprecating take on what it’s like to date a British person, and the answer, delivered with a laugh, starts with alcohol.
The The Spice Girls star, 52, appeared on Cosmopolitan’s Blind Date series, where editor-in-chief Willa Bennett asked her to share the best and worst parts of dating a Brit.
Sporty Spice didn’t hold back.
“We drink way too much,” she said, laughing, before quickly adding while sipping her cocktail: “Cheers, you know, tuk, tuk, tuk, I’m kidding.”
On the flip side, she was just as proud of what her compatriot brings to a relationship.
“Probably our sense of humor,” she said of the best. “We don’t take ourselves too seriously.”
Coming from the woman who spent years in one of the most self-aware pop groups of all time.
The appearance also gave Mel C a chance to talk about her relationship with Australian model Chris Dingwall, who she met on celebrity dating app Raya after matching when she was in London and he was in Sydney.
That long-distance start didn’t deter her.
“Well, he’s definitely not under my feet,” she recalled thinking.
She had planned a DJ tour that took her to Australia anyway and decided he was worth pursuing. Their first date took place in November 2023.
She described the experience of getting to know someone online before meeting them in person as unexpectedly effective.
“Online dating, does it age me? Because you get to know each other before you’ve even met, right? So I was like, ‘Oh, I like the sound of this guy.’
But when I met him and I was like, ‘Yeah, I really like this guy.’ So it went pretty quickly.”
When asked about the fastest she’d ever fallen in love with someone, her answer was just as quick: “When you wake up the next morning.”
Originally from North West England, Mel C has a daughter, Scarlett Starr, born in 2009 with ex Thomas Starr.
She has kept Scarlett largely out of the public eye, a quieter corner of a life that in every other respect she seems very happy to share.
