Spice Girls star Mel ‘C’ Chisholm says she is shocked by Australians stockpiling toilet paper amid coronavirus pandemic… and accuses them for starting a worldwide trend
Spice Girls star Mel ‘C’ Chisholm has been left gobsmacked by Australians who have been stockpiling toilet paper over fears of the coronavirus pandemic.
Speaking to The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Friday, while promoting her new single Who I Am in the country, the 46-year-old accused Aussies of starting a worldwide trend.
Her comments came after radio co-host Kyle Sandilands asked Mel if she’d brought her own toilet paper to Australia due to the shortages.
Shocked: Spice Girls Mel ‘C’ Chisholm has said she is gobsmacked by Australians stockpiling toilet paper amid coronavirus pandemic… and has accused them for starting a worldwide trend
‘I know! Well you can live without toilet paper,’ Mel replied in disbelief.
‘Well the thing is you’ve started a trend because now it’s happening in the UK as well,’ she continued.
‘So we’re right behind you. No pun intended.’
Panic: Australian shoppers have been flocking to supermarkets across the country the last three weeks to stockpile daily household goods like toilet paper, leaving shelves bare (pictured)
Jackie ‘O’ Henderson agreed with the singer that the stockpiling was ridiculous.
‘Yes. You can’t live without food but you can live without toilet paper,’ Jackie replied.
As of Friday morning, there were 756 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Australia and seven deaths.
Pandemic: As of Friday morning, there were 756 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Australia and seven deaths
Last week, Mel revealed the real reason why the Spice Girls didn’t bring their reunion tour to Australia last year.
Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, she said: ‘Unfortunately, when it came to decision day [to tour Australia], someone wasn’t quite ready to continue,’ she said, without naming names.
‘[But] I would have been there in a heartbeat,’ she added.
Going solo! Melanie was part of the iconic nineties girl band The Spice Girls and is currently in Australia to promote her solo single, Who I Am, which came out Friday
She explained the megastars know they ‘owe our Australian fans a tour’ after generating plenty of excitement.
The Spice Girls’ reported plans to tour Australia and take on a Las Vegas residency are said to have been scrapped because of Geri Horner’s alleged feud with Mel B.
According to The Sun in October, Geri, 47, and Mel B, 44, failed to see eye-to-eye during their sold-out UK tour last year.
It lead to Geri’s refusal to hit the road, with the cancelled plans meaning losing out on an estimated earnings of £50million.
Melanie’s new single Who I Am came out on Friday.
‘Someone wasn’t quite ready to continue’: Melanie explained to The Daily Telegraph last week that one of her band mates wasn’t ready to continue the Spice Girls tour to Australia (Pictured from left to right Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell and Melanie)