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Mel B has been sporting a new look lately that’s not all there - the Spice Girl has partially shaved her head. Reminds us of Cassie’s look from last year, actually. Whats more is that her two daughters have followed suit.

Mel was seen out and about with baby Angel last week and the tot was sporting one of  the more impressive mohawks we’ve seen (Maddox Jolie-Pitt, watch your back). And Mel went out last night with her 11-year-old daughter Phoenix Chi, who is an exact clone of her mom, hair and all. The pair was hanging in L.A. and checking out the premiere of Cats and posed for the cameras with their matching styles. This is a mother-daughter trend we can get behind, unlike some others we’ve heard about. [Photos: Splash News Online]

Scary Spice Melanie Brown has a new line of Sugar Factory couture lollipops to hawk, and plenty of friends willing to help. Kim Kardashian, sister Khloe, Lo Bosworth and Stacy Keibler all came out to LA’s Guys And Dolls Lounge in LA to give her wares a taste—some, like Kim, more enthusiastically than others. Watch her slurp away in the gallery below.

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Nicolas Cage wasn’t able to make it to the AFI Film Festival screening of Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans in LA yesterday, but his female co-stars brought plenty of crazy in his absence. Eva Mendes wore a dress entirely made out of old gum…sorry, sequins…and Fairuza Balk’s black leather gown took us all back to The Craft. But sometimes less is more, as proven by Spice Girl Melanie Brown, whose decision to attend sans pants caught plenty of eyes. It was like something out of a Werner Herzog movie…oh wait, this is one!

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On opposite sides of the Atlantic last night, two glam ladies rocked stylish gold gowns. Emmy Rossum was at Fashion Group International’s 26th annual Night Of Stars at Cipriani Wall Street, NYC, wearing a beautiful draped dress that showed off her elegant figure. While in London, the ubiquitous Mel B went for full on bling in this glittering gold number. But which hottie looked better in the jewel-like color? [Photos: WENN]

Mel B’s hot, fierce body has become a new career for her these past couple of years (burlesque show, DVD, underwear modeling, various pap shots poolside with bikini and heels - you get the picture), but unless we hadn’t already guessed, it takes fearsome work to look the way she does. The former/current/oh, who cares anymore Spice Girl is the face of International Fitness Week (apparently), so gave an interview to the UK’s New! magazine terrifying us with how hard she works at it.

• On how she stays fit: “I like to work out with other people - we might do an army workout or hike if I’m in LA. This week I’ve been running - I ran six miles yesterday and six miles the day before.”
• On doing 600 situps each day: “I do it at the end of my workout. I do it every ten reps so it goes quickly. I rest every 200.”
• On being “addicted” to exercise: “Once you get into it, it’s like a drug.”
• On her diet: “I’ve trained my body to crave clean, healthy food.”

Our whole body is crying out for a nap on the sofa and a bag of Kettle chips just reading that. Still, at least Mel gives herself a break by knocking back the wine every time she’s in London (seemingly). You can take the girl out of Britain, but you can’t take the Britain out of the girl! (Photo: WireImage]

Um, but didn’t they all promise never ever to get up on stage together again? Apparently not, as it’s reported that the Spice Girls will reform for a one-off gig at the soccer World Cup in South Africa next year, after Mel B and husband Stephen Belafonte have put together a big money deal. Unsurprisingly though, Victoria Beckham isn’t keen.

“Mel’s determined to get the girls back together for the World Cup and wants them to plough ahead as a foursome if Victoria doesn’t want to take part. She has got the others excited by the idea of a one-off appearance. They are very interested,” reports the Sun. The news comes after the four girls - minus VB - hooked up in London last week, and Geri even took to the sofa of British TV show This Morning to hint at the possibility.

Soz, but we’re totally underwhelmed by this idea. It’s a) not been long enough since the last reunion and b) just smacks of dollar bills in the eyes. Frankly, we’d be more excited by a Glenn Medeiros comeback. [Photo: WireImage]

Mel B’s been all about the glamor in recent times - we feel that we’ve seen her having fun poolside in Las Vegas, champagne glass in hand, stilettos on feet more often than we care to remember. But now the former Spice Girl is spending time in her hometown of Leeds, England, surviving on welfare handouts for a reality show to see how the other half live.

For the show called “7 Days on the Breadline”, Mel will see if she can make state payments of $200 last for a family of six for a week. Spending time in the deprived Harehills area of Leeds, she’s living as a single mom of five children for the show which will air in the UK later this year. However morally dodgy the set-up of this seems to be (essentially - “Ooh! Look at celebrities having to live like poor ordinary people!”) it’s sure to make entertaining watching. [Photo: Splash News Online]

Former Spice Girl Mel B has done well turning her super-ripped body into a profitable industry — with her Totally Fit DVD and stint as British bra brand Ultimo’s celebrity face, she’s got the honed curves most women would dream of. And that men would dream of in a different way, obvs, which is why Playboy magazine have been sticking their dollar-encrusted oar in. But Mel’s made it clear that actually, things are going well enough at the moment without having to resort to Heidi Montag tactics.

“They’re offering me a ridiculous amount of money but I’m just not ready to do it. I’ll consider it in the future when I feel the time’s right,” she said. Translation: when the time comes when nobody is returning my calls and a hot body is the only thing I have left, then I’ll do it. We like Mel a lot, so hope we don’t have to endure her mens mag special anytime soon. [Photo: Splash News Online]

Out of all the former Spice Girls, the one we’d probably most want to have a night out with would be Mel B. Emma seems a bit nicey-nicey, Mel C’s too busy with her new baby, Geri would be all needy and overanalytical and just the thought of ingesting calories in front of Victoria Beckham is enough to bring us out in a rash. Thank goodness then, that Mel has fulfilled our totally spurious assessment as to her personality by indulging in a fantastically un-L.A. night out at a London hotel.

Dressed in what looked like her workout gear, Mel pitched up at the bar of the May Fair hotel with husband Stephen Belafonte and made herself comfortable. Over the next few hours they knocked back the champagne, put on a TMI floorshow for everyone else, Mel jokingly snogged a stranger and eventually had to be helped back to her room in the early hours by hotel staff. Now that’s what we call a night. [Photos: WENN, Splash News Online]

We’ve finally cracked the code, after all these years. When the Spice Girls sang about “A zig a zig ah”, it turned out that can be literally translated to “Spandex”, at least from the looks of Melanie Brown. Brown was spotted out on the town in London wearing this curious outfit today. We can’t imagine what occasion one would wear this for, if not for one of the many dancing competition shows on TV, only thing is that Mel isn’t on any of them this year. The former Dancing With The Stars contestant must have snagged this ensemble from wardrobe before she got booted from the show in 2007. [Photo: Getty Images]