TFI JOHN: I WAS MEL C'S BABYSITTER

TFI Friday star John Revell has discovered he used to babysit for Spice Girl
Mel C. Chris Evans's telly and radio sidekick did not realise the eight year
old girl he looked after had grown up to be Sporty Spice.
Now, 16 years later, the pair are to be reunited when the Fab Five appear on
TFI this week.

Mel's dad Al and John, known to millions of TFI viewers and Virgin Radio
listeners as Johnny Boy, used to work together for a holiday company in the
South of France.
Sporty, then plain Melanie Chisholm, often went to stay with the Revells
during her school holidays and John would help look after her.

John says: "I first realised that I used to babysit Mel when I read in the
papers that she had bought her dad a house.  I saw his surname was Chisholm
and it all clicked.  When Chris met the girls about coming on the show the
first thing Mel asked him was 'Do you know John Revell?'  She was into
singing and dancing at the age of eight and was very good even then. She was
always a lovely child.  Mel was never any trouble at all and was a joy to
look after."

John says he is looking forward to seeing Mel, now 24, on the show this
Friday. She has promised to take along some embarrassing pictures of the two
of them together. John adds: "I haven't spoken to her for years.  I would
imagine she has changed a bit since I last saw her."