I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot.

2007–present: Return of the Spice Girls and reality television judging
In 2007 the Spice Girls re-grouped and announced planns for an reunion tour from which they were said to have earned £10 million each (approximately $20 million). Brown's first movie role came in the form of a British drama Burn It. Brown's debut album Hot was released in November 2000 a month before the Spice Girls final album Forever was released.

State of Mind was Brown's second studio album released in 2005 on the independent label Amber Café and saw the release of only one single—"Today". L. Brown rose to fame as a member of the Brit-pop girl group the Spice Girls in which Melanie Brown was famously known as Scary Spice and also is also known colloquially as Mel B.