Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown has revealed she was in a long-term relationship with a woman before meeting her husband in 2007.

‘I did have a four-year relationship with a woman. But I’ve been very happily married for seven years to a penis. Ha ha! An amazing guy,’ she told the Guardian.

‘But I’ve definitely not been shy or been one to hold back. If I wanted to try something, I did. I had a girlfriend. So what?’

The 39-year-old singer also refuted a claim by Playboy model Luann Lee that they shared an ‘intimate moment’ in a disabled toilet while Brown’s husband Stephen Belafonte waited outside.

‘No, me and my husband are very tight and solid. But I will be the first one to compliment a woman, to say to my husband, "Oh my God, look at her legs," or, "Doesn’t she look stunning?"’ said the X Factor UK judge.

‘I do think women are gorgeous. Crazy but gorgeous.’

Earlier this month, Brown said she has had sex with women but was not a lesbian.

‘I was one of those for a few years,’ she told Alan Carr on his talk show Chatty Man.