Mel B has reportedly asked Simon Cowell for a huge pay rise (Picture: Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic)

Mel B is reportedly eyeing a twenty percent salary increase if she’s to stay on as a judge on America’s Got Talent – raking in another £400,000 a season.

Her alleged demands follow expensive divorce proceedings from husband Stephen Belafonte – the trial is believed to be costing the former Spice Girl thousands of dollars a month in court fees.

If she gets the pay rise, Mel’s pay per series would be boosted to a whopping £2.2 million.

Mel at an event for the hit TV show (Picture: FayesVision/WENN.com)

‘Mel is looking for a rise around the 20 per cent mark. She is confident she can get it as Simon wants her back too,’ reports a source close to the show.




‘She feels the longer she keeps them hanging on the greater the chance of landing the rise,’ said the confidante to the Daily Star.

Simon has a history of having to ‘chase’ Mel to appear on his hit US show, but the pair reportedly working well together.

Mel has been open about her personal struggles during divorce her proceedings, and recently send a heart-felt message to fans on Instagram telling them never to ‘settle for second best’.

Mel claims to have suffered domestic abuse at the hands of her ex, Belafonte, and has recently declared she was drugged by him and filmed non-consensually for sex tapes.

Mel B claims husband Stephen Belafonte was domestically abusive (Picture: WireImage)

The Spice Girls’ other Mel, Mel C, recently expressed worry that Mel B was the only of the girls not to cameo in the video for her new single.

‘It does concern me,’ Mel C told Press Association earlier this year.

Reps have been contacted for comment.

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