Spice Girls-veteranen Mel B får riddarorden

Melanie Janine Brown (born 29 May 1975), commonly known as Melanie B or Mel B, is an English singer, actress, and television personality. She rose to fame in the 1990s as a member of the girl group Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Scary Spice. With over 100 million records sold worldwide, the group became the best-selling female group of all time. During the Spice Girls hiatus, Mel B released her debut solo album, Hot (2000). The album's lead single, "I Want You Back", reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, and was included on the soundtrack for the 1998 film Why Do Fools Fall in Love. Other singles from the album, such as "Tell Me" and "Feels So Good", both reached the top 5 in the UK charts. After signing with the independent label Amber Café, she released her second solo album, L.A. State of Mind (2005), which spawned a single, "Today". Mel B released "For Once in My Life" in 2013, her first single in eight years; it peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart.Since 2007, Mel B has established herself as a television personality and talent-show judge. She participated in the fifth season of the American dance-competition series Dancing with the Stars (2007), finishing in second place with her professional partner, Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Between 2011 and 2016, Mel B served as a guest and main judge on the Australian and British versions of The X Factor. She also co-presented the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars for one season (2012). Mel B judged competitors on the NBC reality show America's Got Talent (2013–2019) and served as a coach and mentor on The Voice Kids Australia (2014). From 2016 to 2018, she presented Lip Sync Battle UK alongside rapper Professor Green. In 2019, Mel B became a team captain on Celebrity Juice; she left after two series. In 2021, she appeared as a contestant on the second series of The Masked Singer, finishing in 11th place.Mel B has also appeared in films, including Spice World (1997), LD 50 Lethal Dose (2003), The Seat Filler (2005), Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast (2014), Chocolate City: Vegas Strip (2017), Killing Hasselhoff (2017) and Love Should Not Hurt (2021).

Brittiska imperieorden (engelska: Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) är en brittisk riddarorden som instiftades den 4 juni 1917 av kung Georg V av Storbritannien för förtjänster gjorda åt riket inom- eller utomlands. Orden är en del av Storbritanniens belöningssystem och tilldelas både män och kvinnor och förlänas i fem grader. Ordensförläningar sker vanligtvis två gånger om året, dels vid nyår (New Year Honours List) och dels i samband med monarkens officiella födelsedag (Birthday Honours List) men också i samband med att en premiärminister avgår (Prime Minister's Honours List) eller att parlamentet upplöses (Dissolution Honours). Orden delades 1918 i en militär och en civil avdelning. Ordensbandet är i rosa med gråa kanter, för den militära avdelningen har bandet även en grå rand i mitten. Mottot är For God and the Empire ("För Gud och Imperiet"). Orden är, tillsammans med Order of the Companions of Honour, den yngsta av Storbritanniens ordnar.