Mel B tells Joey Essex to ‘f*** off’ on ‘Celebrity Juice’ after he claims she tried hitting on him
Melanie Janine Brown, the British singer, songwriter, rapper, television personality, actress, and author known professionally as Mel B, who was Scary Spice in the Spice Girls, lived up to that name when she had a showdown with 29-year-old British TV personality Joey Essex.
On Thursday's episode of ‘Celebrity Juice’, Mel lost her cool and asked Essex to “F*** off” after the latter claimed that Mel had made a move on him. It began when Scary Spice started relentlessly quizzing Essex on his love life and about pictures of him leaving British singer, songwriter, and actress Rita Ora's house last month.
In early March, Essex was caught sneaking out of Ora’s Holland Park home in West London at four in the morning, after what tabloids claimed was a booze-filled night. The two arrived together in the early hours of the morning to Ora’s home. An onlooker told The Sun: “Rita and Joey looked very relaxed and happy in each other’s company. They had beaming smiles as they helped each other from a car and excitedly slipped into her house for the night.”
Essex denied that the two were romantically involved. Speaking to The Sun, Essex said, “We have known each other for years. She’s a nice girl, but we’re just friends. She's a sort.”
Ora, however, claimed that she was “obsessed” with Essex. Speaking to Heart FM, the 29-year-old said, “I think I get more star-struck with reality TV stars than with people I’ve met, honest to god... I was obsessed with Joey and how he acts and talks and everything, that I was kind of like ‘I need to hang out with this guy’ and literally that was it, that was the bottom line and I’m a friendly person.”
Back to ‘Celebrity Juice’, when the show's host Keith Lemon enquired about Essex’s recent breakup with model Lorena Medina, Brown cut in and asked him about the situation as she revealed that the last time they met on the show, Essex was fishing to see who was single on the panel.
Essex and Medina originally met while filming the MTV reality show ‘Celebrity Ex on the Beach’ last year. Throughout January and February, the couple made public appearances together including the National Television Awards 2020 and The Sun Military Awards 2020. The pair split in February.
Brown said, “I wanted to ask about that because apparently you’re single now because the last time you were on the show and the cameras were turned off you was telling me how much you were into your girl and this, that or the other. But you did keep on asking who on the panel was single.”
As the audience and the other guests burst out laughing, Brown continued, “But I did see the other day that you were at Rita Ora’s house all night…”
To this, Essex responded with, “Mel B was sticking in on me last week, trust,” to which the aforementioned expletives came bursting out. “Oh, f*** off!” Brown said, “No I wasn't.”