Mel B to Spice up 'America's Got Talent,' Scary Spice Replaces Sharon Osbourne on Hit Reality Show

"Scary Spice" is back, America! Fans of the British girl band, Spice Girls, that dominated America's pop charts  in the 1990's, will be pleased to learn that the former Spice Girl Melanie Brown is officially joining the judging panel of "America's Got Talent". "Scary Spice", now 37-years-old, will be sitting in Sharon Osbourne's former seat on the panel, as announced on Thursday last week.

Osbourne quit the series in a dispute with NBC over their decision to drop her son, Jack, from another reality show, states E! Online. Not to fear, another Brit with an equally as awesome English accent will replace Sharon, and hopeully Mel B can put some much needed "spice" back into America's Got Talent.

NBC hopes the Spice girl can help turn around the recent decrease in viewers of the network's show, whos last season finale was watched by an all time "scary" low of under 11 million in September, as noted by Reuters.

"This exciting addition of the dynamic Mel B to our lineup of judges promises that fans will see a strong, talented and opinionated woman match up against our equally outspoken judges Howard Stern and Howie Mandel," NBC president of alternative programming Paul Telegdy said in a statement.  

Mel B said she was thrilled to join the talent show, adding in a statement, "It's so exciting to be bringing some Girl Power to the panel!"

This 90's "girl power" seems to be a reoccuring trend as female artists who once commanded the 90's pop music scene are now taking seats as judges on reality tv talent shows: Britney Spears, the 90's pop princess, on Fox's X-Factor, powerhouse vocalist Christina Aguleria on NBC's The Voice, Queen of Pop Mariah Carey on Fox's American Idol, and now Spice Girl Mel B on AGT.

This is not Brown's first time around as a reality show judge. "I've been doing two years on X Factor in Australia and I've done a bit of X Factor in the U.K. so I'm kind of judged-up!" she says, reported by E! News. "Hopefully that will come into good use." 

Judge for yourself if Scary can be the "secret spice" that America's Got Talent needs, or if she's just another 90's reality judge "wannabe".