Spice Girl Mel B switches on Blackpool Lights (shortened)

Watch the moment when Mel B switches on the Blackpool Illuminations for the 2024 season.

Transcript

00:00You all good?

00:04Now, I'm already thinking that you used to work in Blackpool.

00:08I used to be a dancer in Blackpool.

00:10My first ever proper job was at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

00:13I loved the Blackpool Pleasure Beach!

00:16It was great!

00:17And as a kid, you used to come here, I believe, over Blackpool to see sight.

00:21I used to come every year with my mum and dad and my sister

00:25to watch the lights being turned on.

00:27And this year, I'm doing it!

00:32And I tell you, from one office to another,

00:34you know, you stand in there and you're watching Ella Henderson do Ghost.

00:38Right? And I can see you, you know, eyes were putting up.

00:40Ella's favourite song. How good was Ella Henderson?

00:44Oh my God.

00:47So, Ella, what are you going to be coming for now?

00:50Well, Spice Girls switched on the London lights

00:53and now Miley Cyrus' lights is switching on in Blackpool.

00:56Oh, yes!

00:59So, this switch actually does control the lights.

01:03So, the minute you do switch that switch,

01:05the whole of the theatre is going to light up.

01:08I won't mess it up, I promise you all.

01:10I know we've all been waiting for a long time for this.

01:13Me too.

01:14This switch runs like 1930s.

01:17It has to be kept busy.

01:19Yes, it has to be kept busy.

01:21Mr Jefferson, would you like to take a place, sir?

01:23This is all voluntary, this.

01:25No, it's not.

01:26I think it's time to do it.

01:28Right, let's have a look across the Blackpool Tower.

01:32We have the countdown with us.

01:34Yeah.

01:35We read the countdown, everyone, as loud as you can.

01:38And we read it down from ten.

01:40All over the tower.

01:42Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

01:51Go, Miley!

02:13Woo!

02:14Woo!