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[Blind Gossip] Here are a few more stories from former music agent Melanie Blake about her interactions with celebrities!

First up is Beyonce and Destiny’s Child.

Sometimes you could see the sneaky manoeuvring of managers who had singled out a band member for solo stardom: Beyonce — then in Destiny’s Child — was a charming guest, happy to indulge in small talk with the crew, but she didn’t know her managers were asking that her bandmates be zoned out of camera shots to focus on her.

Ouch. We wonder if Beyonce’s band mates know that they were purposefully “zoned out”?

I’ll tell you what I want, what I really really want… a story about The Spice Girls!

Often bandmates were making their own manoeuvres. Take Geri ‘Ginger Spice’ Halliwell. Everyone loved her at first: this determined, pulchritudinous girl with not much in the way of talent but charisma by the bucketload.

But as the years went by you could see her getting delusions of grandeur and by the time she returned to Top Of The Pops with her first number one single in 1999 it was like having Princess Diana in the studio: even her accent had changed and she marched around like she owned the place.

Her accent changed? Who the heck does Ginger Spice think she is? Madonna?

And now, two blind items.

The first is about a supermodel with a memory problem.

… At a music party I sat at a table between one of Britain’s most famous supermodels and a ‘close friend’ of hers, watching as the model leaned across and said to her friend: ‘Is that your husband, then?’ I didn’t think anything of it until her friend leaned in and whispered to me: ‘That’s a bit rich — she was my bloody bridesmaid!’

The second blind item involves two male pop stars!

Then there’s the close female friend who told me about how she had been asked for a threesome by two male A-list pop stars, both legendary lotharios of the era. She agreed — only to find herself swiftly pushed out of the way as they concentrated on each other.

Don’t you hate when that happens?

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Supermodel:

Two Male Pop Stars:

[Optional] Who was the most talented singer in Destiny’s Child? In The Spice Girls?

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  1. mybellyistoofulltothink says

    Beyonce knew! Their manager was HER dad so it was obvious he would try to make her the star.

  2. ItsBouquet says

    Beyonce’s father was her manager, of course she knew what was going on. She also sang as a soloist on almost every Destiny’s Child song, the others were background singers. I remember an interview with her and she said she “makes sure that the others get a line to sing.” If it was an equal band like the Spice Girls, one member wouldn’t be handing out singing lines, leaving herself with the lion’s share.

    About the model, wow! What an itch! I’m guessing Naomi Campbell

  4. Golden2 says

    Supermodel: Kate Moss

    Pop stars: Harry Styles & Zayn (I’m thinking “swiftly” aka Taylor is a clue here)

  5. VegetableLasagna says

    “she didn’t know her managers were asking that her bandmates be zoned out of camera shots to focus on her.”

    I highly doubt Beyonce didn’t know this was going on – if she didn’t come up with that idea, then she certainly knew and played along with it.

  6. Bubbalou says

    Supermodel: Kate Moss and Sadie Frost as the friend?

    Two Male Pop Stars: Mick J and….?

    [Optional] Beyonce and Mel C

  7. Carigirl says

    Supermodel: Cara Delevingne?
    Two male A-Listers? The wording on this has me confused. It says “legendary”. How legendary? I guess Harry Stiles and Louis Tomlinson, since “legendary” to me really is rock and those two truly are pop, like the blind says.