<time itemprop="datePublished" content="2025-11-14" datetime="1763118078" pubdate>14 November 2025</time> <br><br><a href="https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/mel-c/" class="exposure-link" data-linktrack="LinkTracker,articleExposure,mel-c">Mel C</a> played "boy Bingo" on a dating app before finding love with her boyfriend Chris Dingwall.<br>Mel C has opened up about meeting her boyfriend on a dating app<br><br>The 51-year-old Spice Girls star - full name <a href="https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/melanie-chisholm/" class="exposure-link" data-linktrack="LinkTracker,articleExposure,melanie-chisholm">Melanie Chisholm</a> - went public with her relationship with Australian model/actor Chris last year and she's now revealed the pair met on celebrity dating app Raya with Mel explaining she thought she was done with romance until she went on a "drunken night out with female friends" who convinced her to start looking for love online.<br><br>During an appearance on the Life Uncut podcast, Mel explained: "Nobody knows this but we actually met on Raya ... Yeah, it can work people!<br><br>"I don’t know how much I should divulge. I was in a relationship previously and you know sometimes you get to the end of a relationship and first of all, you’re like: 'I never want to meet anyone ever again and that’s it. It’s just me and my girl [daughter Scarlett] and that’s it. It’s us against the world', which it still is. <br><br>"But then you get to this point and it’s usually on a drunken night out with female friends and it’s like: 'You gotta get back out there! You gotta start dating!'<br> "So that’s when the Raya profile was set up."<br> Mel - who split from Scarlett's father Thomas Starr in 2012 after 10 years together - went on to reveal she used Raya during trips to the pub with her friends.<br> She said: "So, we're on this thing, which is really good fun ... [When] down at the pub ... We used to call it boy Bingo. <br> "So we’d go through and see if there were any hotties on there … see what celebrities you could spot which was always fun."<br> However, Mel found Chris' profile and arranged to meet him in Sydney where she was going to be working on a DJ tour but she nearly called off their first date.<br> She explained: "So I’m on the app and in my head I’m like: 'I’m done with this dude. I want someone who is all the things that he wasn’t and the complete opposite. And I don’t want somebody who’s under my feet'.<br> "So I’m in London and I match up with this guy in Sydney and I think well he’s absolutely not under my feet and I did have a DJ tour planned and I thought: 'Well, he’s really cute this is worth pursuing. Even if it’s just dinner'.<br> "So I came over and it was November 23 and I went out for dinner and this is a flex right … I landed at seven o’clock that morning. <br> "I stayed awake and I kept busy all day and I went on our first date that night. It’s commitment or desperation …<br> "He booked this restaurant, it was hard to get into so I was like I don’t want to let the dude down, I’m going to rock up – and we’ve been together ever since.<br> "So that's the story, which I've never actually told."<br> Mel went on to add of her man: "He's just a real gentle soul. He's one of those people that doesn't get all up in your business. He’s quietly in the sidelines, being uber supportive, and he's wonderful."<br> <small> <strong>Tagged in </strong> <a href="/mel-c/" rel="tag" class="label label-primary subject-tag">Mel C</a> <a href="/melanie-chisholm/" rel="tag" class="label label-primary subject-tag">Melanie Chisholm</a> </small> <br><strong>© 2025 FemaleFirst Ltd. all rights reserved.</strong><br><small><strong>duration : 0.37437s</strong> v4.2 - <span class="timestamp">2025-11-14 11:40:06</span></small><br><br><a href="https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMijAFBVV95cUxQaFhSV0MwUFh3alhJUm13bFNhTjNBaEs1enhfaFNwSHBtZ3pWTDB0a016UHRSMDJ2VXpKV2c4MzdZVDFQd054RDFkellWMXUyRHowSEtBT3gxNlVwX2dnUWpLU2MwS200akk1anA0YXVMTi1LeUJ1U3NYNEYtSU14cXhhRGtzTTNGTExQOA?oc=5">source</a>
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