October 24, 2026 — 5:00am

Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we’re told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they’re given. This week, he talks to Melanie C . The singer, songwriter and performer, 52, is also known as former Spice Girl Mel C, aka Sporty Spice. Her latest release, Sweat , is the highest-charting solo album by any member of the band.

Melanie C on finding success: “I felt guilty … I was earning money that my relatives wouldn’t earn in a lifetime. Some were doing very hard manual labour.” Conor Clinch

MONEY

What was money like, growing up? My family’s from Liverpool and I grew up in a place called Whiston, in between Liverpool and Manchester, a working-class area. There wasn’t much money around, and people worked really hard to just put food on the table and pay the bills.…