Mel Appleby died announcement on MTV Europe

From 1990. ohnoitisnathan

[@TayWoode]

Apart from the obvious mistake why is the presenter smirking like that?

[@jukeboxjoyce7359]

Can't believe MTV Europe made this error in their reporting

[@mauricerebuck6938]

Disrespectful very

[@220773]

I've NEVER ever met in my life a worse 'pop-showbiz' story as I did with Mel & Kim. I wasn't properly a fan, and at the very start I thought the two sisters were 'just another product of the '80s' which I had got pretty bored about (the decade, I mean), I used to listen to '70s stuff as I still do nowadays, so... I thought the duo would go on producing 'crap' (I'll be honest) on and on, then would probably have a natural decay much further on as any other popstar on earth, and they would probably end up being remembered for their '80s heyday and on and on... lots of others had that story to tell, some made it also through the '90s and further, but anyway... that's what I thought. Then came the news. 1988, Mel had cancer. Nowadays other popstars have faced such happenings of life and no-one probably remembers about it: Anastacia, Kylie, lots of people... back then it was really like a shock, we weren't accustomed to it, we wouldn't easily think 'oh, come on, she's surely gonna make it'... Mel gave interviews, she was permanently laughing, the media stuck on them as long as they could to give us a positive impression, then blank page. I had noticed their absence from the media all through 1989, when such things happen you tend to think something's not really working... it was happening with Freddie Mercury as well, you might remember... my bad feelings then faded away as time flew by, I was studying, starting to think about my future, the '90s were peeping in and... I had almost forgotten of Mel & Kim, but there it was: Mel had died. It was a shock for me, and I wasn't even a fan... I couldn't believe life had been so rude to a young girl who had been picked up out of the lot by the luxury of show-biz and had just had little time to enjoy it. No other story had gone that way until then, no other story would have gone that way either from then on, if you don't consider the 'damned heroes' whose tough times were even predictable (Kurt Cobain and sorts)... Mel wasn't any 'damned hero', she was just a girl. An unlucky girl. I'm still touched by her story and also by the way it has faded away through the mists of time... they'd make a movie out of that nowadays, to say the least. Not for her, sadly.

[@mauricerebuck6938]

How many chapters u think the comment should have

[@zeebo8965]

I thought they were covering the real cause which was Aids because it was very unusual to die from cancer in your early 20s and one of the leading causes of death in 1990 was from Aids so it made me very curious...

[@220773]

@@zeebo8965 Och, really? Aids??? I'd never even consider that one...

[@220773]

@@mauricerebuck6938 Loads.

[@zeebo8965]

@220773 no I remember thats what I thought when the story broke because they said her immunity was too weak to fight off an infection... and alot of people with hiv developed cancers... I'm not trying to be negative bcos I loved mel and kim, I'm just relaying how I felt at the time...

[@craigmatt5326]

I'm not sure why everyone seems to think they made a mistake when he clearly said Mel of Mel and Kim.

[@MelAndKimVideos]

Look at the text on the screen behind him. It says "Kim dies".

[@craigmatt5326]

Christ I must be blind! I do apologise, I was listening more to what he was saying than reading it!

[@mauricerebuck6938]

Cant believe you came from hackney. Local talent that are naturally talented

[@dominewimbury9644]

Mel died, not Kim! Stupid MTV! 25 years ago today. RIP Mel xx

[@traceymarsh6314]

no he said mel of mel and kim

[@alejandrotassone7826]

tracey marsh yes, but he's talking about the cover page or whatever that is next to him, it says that kim dies when the truth is that Mel dies.

[@NMarsden]

WRONG ANSWER MTV EUROPE, MEL IS WITH JESUS!

[@ThomasMuller-jb5lh]

Kim dies? What a terrible mistake from MTV

[@Hatsumeha]

the presenter is saying something different that what is show..How was MTV managing this

[@harshnankani]

classic MTV

[@EspeShorter]

Guys relax okay maybe just a Accident

[@RM-uc9bk]

Did kim sacrifice her own sister to become a soloist..

[@tonymontana897]

You Idiot !

[@mauricerebuck6938]

Bet you are follower in life. Idiot

[@eph_loves_80s74]

No

[@Meltdown555]

Fool