Summary: Five days before their first-ever live concert in London, the Spice Girls live incredible adventures aboard the Spicebus and a lot of messing around with their mad manager Clifford and his assistant Deborah; an arrogant director that wants to make a documentary about the group but can’t do anything right; an ambitious Hollywood director that only thinks about money; a powerful newspaper owner dying to bring a scandal up just to increase the sales; and the mysterious “Chief” that only communicates by encoded messages. In addition, the Spice’s best friend is pregnant and wants all of the girls to be the baby’s godmothers.
Melanie’s part: Mel C (Sporty Spice)
Country: England
Language: English
Gender: Comedy/Adventure/Musical
Run Time: 93 minutes
Releases: (1997) United Kingdom (December 26th, with a premiere on December 15th) Spain (December 17th), Switzerland’s French Speaking Region (December 24th), Iceland (December 26th).
Filming: between July and August 1st, 1997
Studios: Columbia Picture. Spice Girls/Fragile Films in association with Icon Entertainment International and Polygram Filmed Entertainment
Producer: Uri Fruchtmann and Barnaby Thompson
Co-producer: Peter McAleese
Costume Design: Kate Carin

Film editing: Andrea MacArthur
Production design: Grenville Horner
Cinematography: Clive Tickner, B.S.C.
Executive producer: Simon Fuller
Writtten by: Kim Fuller
Director: Bob Spiers
Filming: Between July 8th and August 1st, 1997

CURIOSITIES:

Announcement: One particularly interesting moment in Melanie’s career was the trip to the traditional Cannes Film Festival in France, to announce with the Spice Girls that they were going to star in a movie. They got to the country just when the Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary.

Audience: As the majority of the girls’ audience was made of children and teenagers, they decided not to take a chance: agreed to be the protagonists of the movie but they knew the plot couldn’t be scandalous. Despite the fact the girls became well known for being irreverent and for exploiting their own sexuality, they couldn’t take part on a production with spicy scenes or with a type of humor difficult for children to digest. Spice World The Movie was received ever since the beginning as a harmless comedy aimed at viewers with all ages.

Costs: $10, 000, 000
Income: $75, 000, 000

Location: Around 40 locations in London and Twickenham Studios, amongst them:
- Loseley House
- Tower Bridge
- Royal Albert Hall
- Docklands
- Smithfield Central Market
- Hop Stock Market
- Buckingham Palace
- Battersea Park
- Westminster Abby
- Trafalgar Square
- Big Ben

Records: Spice World The Movie had the biggest box office in England on its debut.
Spice World was the movie with the most celebrities co-starring on.
Spice World was the 2nd most watched movie while showing in England. First was Titanic.

Summary: The actor Norm Maconald plays Norman Henderson, a former hockey player that gets arrested and rather pay community services than stay some time behind bars. The show has 54 episodes that were aired in the United States from 1999 until 2001. Melanie guest stars in one episode in 2000, playing herself in a dressing room while Laurie Freeman (Laurie Metcalf) pretends to be her make up artist.
Melanie’s part: Guest starring as herself
Country: United States
Language: English
Episode: “Norm vs. Jenny”, aired on January 26th 2000.
Gender: Comedy
Run Time: 1 minute and 41 seconds

Producer: Norm Macdonald and others.
Writers: Lawrence Broch, Cynthia Caponera, and others.
Directors: Andy Cadiff, Gerry Cohen, and others.

Summary: A sports competition between celebrities as a reality show on British Channel 4. The main goal was to raise money for charity. The participants lived inside a complex made especially for the show for 6 days, at Don Valley Stadium. Cameras filmed them the entire time.
Beginning: September 7th 2003
Duration: 6 days
Melanie’s part: Guest Starring as herself
Country: England
Language: English
Gender: Reality show
Places and dates:
09.12.2003 - Hammer throwing & 100m - Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield
09.11.2003 – Judo - Ponds Forge Indoor Arena, Sheffield
09.10.2003 – Speed Skating - Sheffield Ice Centre
09.09.2003 – Hurdles - Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield

09.08.2003 – Swimming - Ponds Forge Pool, Sheffield
Competition categories: Hammer throwing, running, judo, speed skating, hurdles and swimming
Awards: Money, to be donated to several charities. If Melanie would win, she’d donate to Cancer Research UK, the charity that invited her to join the show.
Amount raised: Melanie’s participation raised £15,000 to Cancer Research UK through votes via phone call from the viewers supporting her.
Ratings: on September 8th, the show had 1,9 million viewers which means 8% of the British audience at that time – TV Overnights.

CURIOSITIES:

The Invitation: Months earlier, Cancer Research UK one of the many charities Melanie supports, invited her to be on the show and she accepted. So Melanie had to go through 6 days of training in different sports disciplines such as hammer throwing, running, judo, speed skating, hurdles and swimming together with other celebrities that would also be on the show.
Melanie’s chances to win were high as she has been trained in sports ever since she was a child, what even got her the nickname Sporty Spice when she joined the Spice Girls.

The accident: During the days Melanie spent at the complex made especially so the celebrities could live together in Sheffield, she got great results at the swimming, hurdles and speed skating competitions. But on September 11th during the judo fight against Miss World’s Azra Akin, Melanie fell badly and suffered a rupture on the crucial ligament of her knee and an injury on other two ligaments. She was urgently taken to Sheffield’s Hospital, accompanied by her personal trainer, Matt Roberts. By night Melanie recorded a message to the remaining participants of the show and to the fans from the hospital’s bed, making it clear that it was not Azra’s fault and that accidents happen. The doctor Brian English from UK Athletics Chief Medical examined her and declared at that night that Melanie was going to have a surgery and a long process of recovery.

This was the message Mel sent to Azra from the hospital: "Hi girls, it's me here. I just wanna say I'm absolutely fine, so don't worry about me. Goodluck tonight and it's a good job I'm not there, cause I would've kicked your asses. So good luck and take care and please don't worry about me and Azra, I love you lots and I don't want you to be worried about anything, accidents happen. Aswell I would like to say big thank you to all the fans out there and I'm fine you know. Thank you for all the support and I'll be back on me feet in no time! See you later!"

The Surgery: Melanie's personal trainer Matt Roberts described the injury as "serious and that had long-term ramifications."
A spokesperson for The Games said: "They were aware when they went into this, as in any sporting event, there was a possibility of this sort of eventuality, and they all went in with their eyes wide open." The next day, on September 12th, Mel had a laparoscopic surgery with surgeon Bickerstaff. He took out a piece of her hamstring and inserted in her knee and had to reconstruct her knee using metals a pair of staples and a screw. Melanie was admitted in Sheffield’s hospital for 5 days and then taken straight to her mother’s house in Liverpool, where she stayed for a month without being able to move her leg.

Summary: Melanie plays a pregnant wife at the episode aired on October 29th 2005. She thinks her husband is giving ideas for the baby's name but he actually is giving some options of potential friends she might have cheated him with. When she finally picks a name, he thinks that she’s simply confirming the name of the cheater friend!
Melanie’s part: Guest starring as a pregnant wife
Country: Germany
Language: German
Gender: Comedy
Episode: Aired on October 29th, 2005
Run Time: 1 minute and 15 seconds

Summary: Joana and Rodrigo start a relationship but soon find out that they are sister and brother. Everyone stands against the couple who decides to make a death pact. She gives up in the last moment but he doesn’t, what makes she assumes that he's dead. But he didn’t die, he’s just suffering from memory loss. Then Melanie appears in Rodrigo’s dream and he begins to remember all about his relationship with Joana, who is now pregnant.
Melanie’s part: Guest starring singing First Day Of My Life in Rodrigo's dream
Country: Portugal
Language: Portuguese
Gender: Drama/Romance

Summary: Melanie hosts the TV show with Justin Lee Collins and Alan Carr. Part of the show was recorded in Majorca, when Melanie was there to perform at Viva Mallorca. Besides being interviewed, Melanie plays a reporter, a participant on the Big Brother's house, a presenter of a TV show called "Spice Up Your Wife" and even dress up as Victoria Beckham!
Country: England
Language: English
Gender: Comedy
Episode: Aired on June 22nd 2007

Country: England
Language: English
Gender: Comedy
Episode: Aired on March 11th 2008
Run Time: 2 minutes and 34 seconds
Studios: ITV2
Producer: ITV2
Writer: -
Director: -