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Bristol Post
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Tristan Cork

M&S shoppers 'love' new leopard print top modelled on former Spice Girl Mel B

She was known around the world as the scary one with a love of the old leopard print, and now Scary Spice Mel B is turning heads on Instagram after Marks & Spencer spotted her in one of their natty, catty tops.

The Spice Girls singer is currently starring in the US version of The Circle - that bizarre reality TV game show where people live 24 hours a day in an apartment block in Manchester and only interact with the other people in the game through a closed social media platform.

She and Baby Spice Emma Bunton are currently living their best lives pretending to be a nerdy American twenty-something called Jared, fooling a load of other wacky American twenty-somethings into thinking they are a children's author who writes about 'animals and poo'.

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But the important thing is that both Spice Girls are living up to their reputations in the fashion stakes in the Netflix series - Emma is running around the apartment in baby pink while Mel B is lording it up in a series of leopard-print outfits, pyjamas and dressing gowns, all with her pet dog in tow.

And Marks and Spencer noticed that one of the tops she is wearing has come from their store - and went to town on the Spice Girls' song references when they gleefully shared it on Instagram.

The store managed to get three Spice Girls song references into just one sentence: "Stop right now," they began. "We’re about to tell you what you want, what you really, really want. This leopard-print top, spotted on @officialmelb, is guaranteed to spice up your life – and your wardrobe."

The post was a hit with some, with Instagram user Carolyn Smith quick to get the joke: "100% with the punnage here", she wrote.

On Facebook, the post racked up more than 190 likes, with lots of people commenting that the £99 price tag was too steep.

One shopper wrote: "Very nice but not a realistic price for the everyday woman i would never be able to afford nearly 100 pound for a top it's half my weekly wage. Oh to be rich."

While Loretta Shahrabi wrote: "Yes love a bit of leopard print."

And lots of eagle-eyed shoppers noticed you can pick up the same print, but not on a cashmere jumper. Annmarie Sproule said: "Love animal print. I do like the £17.50 version better, but that’s because I can’t look after cashmere."

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