'America's Got Talent' hiring Mel B to replace Sharon Osbourne

Mel B

The NBC summer reality hit has signed Spice Girl Mel B (aka Melanie Brown) to join the judging panel. She’ll take a seat beside Howard Stern and Howie Mandel critiquing the show’s wild variety of performers. The pop singer has live competition show experience having served as a judge on the Australian version of The X Factor and guest hosted on the UK version.

Scary Spice will replace the show’s longtime judge Sharon Osbourne, who announced she was quitting last year. Osbourne later said she was angry at the network for declining to cast her son Jack on the physically demanding NBC reality effort Stars Earn Stripes after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.