Mel B on Returning to 'America's Got Talent' and Reuniting with the Spice Girls in 2024
26.12.2023 - 15:47
/ glamour.com
Warning: This article includes discussion of domestic violence.
If you or someone you know is struggling, please contact the .Here's one thing to look forward to in 2024: the return of America’s Got Talent.
And along with it, one of our favorite Brits, Mel B.
(Sorry, Simon Cowell.) The revamped rendition of the long-running NBC talent show, which will air on January 1 at 8 p.m.
EST, ups the stakes with a spinoff format they're calling with former acts returning to the stage for the chance to win $250,000.“I love being part of the AGT family,” Mel B (whose real name is Melanie Brown) tells Glamour of her highly-anticipated return.
“I did seven years and then in 2019, I came back to the UK because Spice Girls was going on tour, and I never went back.
I set up home here with my kids and put them in school in my hometown, Leeds.
So when I got asked to be back, it just so happened I had a break in my crazy, hectic schedule.
I was like, Oh my God, this is perfect timing.”One of the biggest selling points? The show's new format, which will include 40 acts selected by voters.
“These are the acts that everybody wants to see back," she says.
"It’s quite a tricky situation for the people who are coming back because it is the elite of the elite.
You're not performing alongside an act that is tongue-in-cheek, or a little bit on the goofy, ridiculous side.
We as the four judges get to choose our own teams and battle it out with each other and we get to steal from each other's team along the way.”Her return to AGT is just one of many projects Mel has going on in the new year.
She's also re-releasing her best-selling 2018 memoir , which will be extended to include additional chapters.
The book gives an unfiltered look into her 10-year
.