Mel C opens up on Geri Halliwell's 'first Spice Girl' Margaret Thatcher row: 'Very difficult for me!'

Melanie Chisholm, best known as Mel C, has opened up about the personal toll of Geri Halliwell's controversial 1996 declaration Margaret Thatcher was "the first Spice Girl". Speaking on the Louis Theroux Podcast, the 52-year-old singer revealed her bandmate's remarks to The Spectator were "very difficult for me" given her working-class background in the North West. "I grew up in the Northwest of England," she told Mr Theroux. "My whole family are from Liverpool. On my dad's side of the family, t