Mel C Says She’s ‘Gutted’ to Miss Mel B’s Wedding to Rory McPhee

Former Spice Girl Mel C is making sure Mel B and Rory McPhee feel the love on their wedding day — even though she personally had to miss out.

“So so happy for you both and beyond gutted I couldn’t be there,” Mel C, 51, wrote via her Instagram Story on Saturday, July 5. “Excited to celebrate with you really soon! Yippee!”

Mel C reposted Mel B and McPhee’s joint Instagram post, where they smiled on their wedding day at London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral while looking at each other. “❤️ 05.07.25,” the couple captioned the upload on Saturday.

McPhee got down on one knee and proposed to Mel B while vacationing together in Berkshire, U.K. in 2022. The pair had been together for three years.

“He said, ‘I love you, you’re my best friend and I want to spend the rest of my life with you,’” she recalled on an episode of U.K. talk show Gogglebox at the time. “There were rose petals everywhere, a log fire, a hotel — which was [luxury hotel] Cliveden. It was very romantic. I love flowers.”

Mel B was initially married to Jimmy Gulzar, with whom she shares daughter Phoenix, from 1998 to 2000. She later dated Eddie Murphy, welcoming daughter Angel in 2007 after their split. Mel B moved on with Stephen Belafonte in 2007, welcoming daughter Madison in 2011. The pair split in 2016, with their divorce finalized the following year.

While reflecting on her romance with McPhee, Mel B later told Us Weekly that her longtime love helped her believe in love “again” after her two previous marriages.

“Leaving that 10-year relationship, I was not looking to be in another. I was all about my kids, making sure they [were] OK and on their healing journey,” she exclusively told Us in May. “Rory, a lovely family friend, is a hairdresser, so he was nurturing my curls back. When I left my ex, I cut my hair off and dyed it blonde. I wanted to get rid of anything that made me think of [the relationship].”

She continued, “So I’m like, ‘Can you come and help me?’ As [Rory] was nurturing my curls, he was nurturing my belief in love again and trust — which is a huge thing for me because the person I loved and trusted turned out to be the worst mistake I ever made. Up until two years ago, I was like, ‘You can find somebody else. I’m too broken.’ Rory goes, ‘Melanie, I’m not going anywhere. Because I absolutely love you.’”