United Kingdom, July 20 -- Mel C married Chris Dingwall in a secret ceremony in Sydney, Australia before staging a lavish wedding in the UK, on Saturday (18.07.26).

The Spice Girls star, 52, gathered her friends and family for a celebration at Country House Cumbria in the Lake District, North West England over the weekend but it's been revealed the couple made their union official in a legal ceremony in Chris' native Australia before flying back to the UK.

Mel - real name Melanie Chisholm - was left without a wedding dress days before her flight Down Under so her former bandmate-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham stepped in to help. Victoria told Vogue magazine: "I was actually having dinner with Melanie and asked her what she was...