It’s Sporty and Ginger! Mel and Fergie catch up

FORMER Spice Girl Mel C was reunited with the Duchess of York yesterday, taking calls from traders ringing into a brokerage firm to remember the victims of 9/11 and raise money for good causes.

Demurely dressed in a white blouse and culottes, Melanie Chisholm, aka Sporty Spice, cut a different look from 19 years ago when she and the other Spice Girls met the Duchess and her daughters — Princesses Beatrice who was just ten and Eugenie, nine — backstage after a concert at Earl’s Court. The Duchess appeared to photo bomb the picture (inset), much to the amusement of Beatrice, who couldn’t suppress a hearty laugh.

Now aged 44 and a mum of one, Mel and Sarah, 58, caught up on the London trading floor of City firm BGC, which lost 658 employees in the World Trade Center attack.