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Nineties pop legend sold millions of records... now she's now flipping burgers in a London pub - but can YOU work out who she is?
The star, now 50, has confounded showbiz expectations with her latest career move - MailOnline can reveal she has started working as a burger chef in a north London pub.
Their fashion sense - including their trademark combat pants - proved hugely influential on the high street and their posters adorned the bedrooms of tens of thousands of teenage boys. But it had only been soft launched, in the sense that it hadn’t been publicised at all by the pub - there was no mention anywhere on the menu of the celebrity in the kitchen - and in fact its only public announcement came in a video posted on Melanie’s Instagram on Sunday. Indeed it was plain even allowing for the limited view into the kitchen from the tiny serving hatch where she presented her food for bar staff to take to tables that Melanie was furiously concentrating on her timings.
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