Melanie Blatt didn't intend to be seen as the mean judge on The X Factor, she just set out to be honest.
The former All Saints singer has uprooted her life in Ibiza and brought her sister, Jasmine, and teenage daughter, Lilyella, to live in New Zealand while she judges our singing talent.
So far, Blatt is impressed with the potential here and believes a few of the contestants could make it overseas if they get the right treatment from their record company.
Before people first auditioned in front of her, she didn't know what sort of judge she would be.
"My main thing was to just be me and whatever I thought, I was going to say, really. I've never done anything like this before and this is what I'm like in my everyday life. When I told my friends that I was perhaps the sterner of the judges, they were not surprised at all," she told the Herald.
