Editing Mel B (section)

==Early life==
Melanie Janine Brown was born in [[Harehills]], [[Leeds]],<ref name="Lambert">{{Cite news|first=Victoria|last=Lambert|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jun/18/mel-b-spice-girls-family-values|title=Mel B: My family values|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=18 June 2011}}</ref> and grew up in the [[Burley, Leeds|Burley]] area of the city, the daughter of Martin Brown and wife Andrea Dixon,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://catalogue.royalalberthall.com/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=DS%2FUK%2F20531 | title=Search Results}}</ref> daughter of Stanley Dixon and wife Eileen Mary English.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eaxbWJ7dpu8C&pg=PT41 |title=Spice Girls Revisited|access-date=20 January 2016|isbn=9780857121110|last1=Sinclair|first1=David|date=17 December 2009|publisher=Omnibus Press}}</ref> Her father was from [[Saint Kitts and Nevis]] and her mother is English. Through her mother, Mel B is a first cousin of actor and director [[Christian Cooke]]; Cooke's mother Di and Mel B's mother Andrea are sisters.<ref name="Lambert" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/people/melanie-brown-20866837|title=Melanie Brown|website=Biography|access-date=8 July 2018}}</ref> Mel B studied performing arts at [[Intake High School]] in Rodley, Leeds before entering the entertainment industry.<ref name="Melanie Brown"/> For a time, she worked as a dancer in [[Blackpool]], [[Lancashire]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Evans|first=Mel|date=2019-10-29|title=Mel B reveals difficulty dating with mental illness|url=https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/29/mel-b-reveals-difficulty-dating-mental-illness-opens-add-adhd-anxiety-11001354/|access-date=2021-04-11|website=Metro|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Mel B opens up about her ADHD, AD, D and dyspraxia - but what are they?|url=https://uk.style.yahoo.com/adhd-add-dyspraxia-mel-b-110123731.html|access-date=2021-04-11|website=uk.style.yahoo.com|date=29 October 2019 |language=en-GB}}</ref>