38 Facts About Melanie Blake

Melanie Blake is an English author, columnist and talent agent.

In 2018, Melanie Blake made the decision to lessen her client list to focus on her writing career.

Melanie Blake has since released three bestselling novels: The Thunder Girls, Ruthless Women and Guilty Women, all of which were inspired by her experiences in both the music and soap industries.

Melanie Blake is set to release the final instalment of the Ruthless trilogy, Vengeful Women.

Melanie Blake was born in Stockport, Greater Manchester, to a mother who was a homemaker and a father who owned his own printing business.

Melanie Blake described her early childhood as a normal working-class life until she was seven, when her father joined a religious cult.

Melanie Blake's cult's beliefs stated that anything that was not derived from the bible was a "false idol", which meant Blake was not allowed to watch television, read books or magazines or have posters on her wall.

Melanie Blake put posters up inside of her wardrobe where she hid a small television that she found in a skip; her father discarded of it all after he discovered them.

Melanie Blake gave their family's money to the church, which led to Blake's mother becoming a cleaner, feeding the family from food banks and clothing them from charity shops.

Melanie Blake recalled her father smashing anything new that her mother had bought, as well as ripping a new outfit from her body, and one Christmas, Melanie Blake's father destroyed the family's presents.

Whilst at school, Melanie Blake was bullied for receiving free school meals.

At the time, Melanie Blake had undiagnosed dyslexia, but was chastised by her teachers, who labelled her "stupid".

Melanie Blake was told by a teacher that her writing career would go nowhere, with her English teacher telling her that the only thing Blake would be writing is labels on factory boxes.

An underage Melanie Blake worked at public houses and saved her tips in the hopes to better her life.

Melanie Blake lied by stating that she had experience as a camera assistant and initially found the job difficult due to her lack of experience, with colleagues noticing her lack of knowledge for the job.

Examples include Melanie Blake telling Kylie Minogue that the lighting made her hair look blue, which she appreciated since no other staff members had thought to tell her, and informing Jennifer Lopez that the Top of the Pops team had been instructed not to talk to her, which Lopez was shocked by and grateful to Melanie Blake for telling her.

Whilst in the car park at Elstree Studios, Melanie Blake met EastEnders actress Gillian Taylforth, who told Melanie Blake that she should work as an extra on the soap.

Melanie Blake took her advice and appeared in the background of scenes in the Queen Vic, as well as doing further background acting on soaps Coronation Street and Emmerdale.

Melanie Blake met with 16 promoters who Blake said "laughed in her face" at the idea of a reunion tour for the group, but after the 17th promoter backed her idea for a tour, it was announced and quickly sold out.

Melanie Blake began representing more Loose Women panellists and at times, she represented the entire panel of the series.

Melanie Blake was responsible for the castings of many celebrities on reality competition programmes including Celebrity Big Brother, Dancing on Ice and Strictly Come Dancing.

Melanie Blake then garnered a reputation as the "queen of soaps" due to her efforts at ensuring older actresses would get employed on soap operas.

That of Taylforth's return involved Melanie Blake attempting to persuade producers for 15 years to rehire her, due to the writers having killed off Kathy Beale due to cast member Adam Woodyatt asking for a "juicy" storyline.

Melanie Blake was successful in pitching a return for King to return to Emmerdale as Kim Tate, the casting of Gaynor Faye as Megan Macey in Emmerdale and convincing Callard to return to Coronation Street as Liz McDonald, the landlady of the Rovers Return Inn.

In 2017, Melanie Blake returned to journalism as the Sunday Peoples television critic, their first female columnist in over 30 years.

Melanie Blake has worked as a guest writer for the Daily Mirror, the Metro, the Daily Mail and the Irish Times.

In 2018, Melanie Blake made the decision to trim her client roster to focus on her writing career.

Melanie Blake released her debut novel The Thunder Girls in 2018; the plot of the novel focused around a girl group who plan to reunite.

Melanie Blake used her experiences within the music industry to inspire events of the novel.

Melanie Blake had written the novel almost 20 years prior to its release, and at the age of 21, she was offered a publishing deal for the book on the condition that she amended the age of the characters to be younger and to make them posh.

Melanie Blake declined the deal and the book went unpublished until 2018, with the characters' ages and background intact.

The success of the novel led to Melanie Blake adapting it into a live theatre production.

Melanie Blake used experiences from the soap industry to inspire events of the book; she stated that what goes on behind the scenes of soap operas is sometimes not pretty and that she had "seen it all", which she wanted to represent in her writing.

Melanie Blake revealed that prior to being published, the book was turned down by 39 publishing companies due to the focus of the book being on women over 50.

Melanie Blake was offered a deal to write a sequel to the Ruthless Women with the condition that she wrote the manuscript within 12 weeks, which she did.

That same year, Melanie Blake turned down numerous offers to be a cast member within The Real Housewives franchises, including The Real Housewives of Cheshire and The Real Housewives of Jersey since she "doesn't crave fame".

Melanie Blake subsequently announced that the final instalment of the trilogy, Vengeful Women, was set for release.

Melanie Blake was in a two-year on-off relationship with Michael Hutchence in the 1990s, describing him as "a man so devastatingly attractive that he could have made a nun break her chastity vows within minutes".