MEL C: WE’D NEVER HAVE COPED WITH ALL THE TWITTER TROLLING

is grateful social media wasn’t around at the height of mania so she could make mistakes in private.

Sporty Spice reckons the Wannabe quintet had more fun than today’s stars, because every slip up wasn’t captured on iphone and plastered all over the web.

Mel explained: “We were young and we were going out, we were having fun and we were making mistakes and it was not documented.

“Of course we had to deal with paparazzi but I just feel for young artists these days, because they are so exposed, there’s nowhere to hide anymore.

“When you’re young sometimes you do silly things and you don’t want the world to know about it!”

Mel, back with new single Blame It On Me, shared pop pearls of wisdom with teen star Billie Eilish

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last year. And 46-year-old Mel was touched by her response: “I was just talking about how quickly it goes, you know you’re in this chaos and before you know it’s over.

“Young artists – I always want to give them advice, I want them to not make the same mistakes I did and sometimes they must think, ‘Oh shut up grandma.’

“When Billie really took it onboard and she spoke about it, I was really touched and I thought, ‘Wow, that means a lot, that my words are not falling on deaf ears’.’”

Mel speaks to her Spice bandmates all the time but she’s focusing on solo life with Blame It On Me, her second lockdown single.

She said: “It was inspired by a toxic relationship, someone who you think is one thing but then your world is shattered when you realise it was all built on lies.

“It’s not a revenge track but it is nice to have that anger out.”