She's a self-made millionaire and celebrity agent who has worked with some of the UK's top soap stars. But in 2011 Stockport-born Melanie was driven by tragedies into making a career change.
Melanie, 45, says it was the death of her mum Mary in 2011, aged 52, and the loss of close friend that jolted her into pursuing her dream of becoming a writer. "I thought 'oh my god I'm going to die and it's not what I want to do.'" she told us.
In 2019 her first book Thunder Girls, about the rise and fall of a reunited eighties girlband inspired by her time working in music management after working behind the scenes on Top Of The Pops, was published and it was made into a play starring Coronation Street's Beverley Callard and Coleen Nolan.
