Seven bans Spice Girl Mel B from The Project Desist ... Melanie Brown banned from other networks. Photo: Getty Images Channel Seven has banned former Spice Girl and X Factor judge Mel B from appearing on Ten's The Project tonight. Seven ordered Ten to "cease and desist" from allowing the singer to co-host the show, according to executive producer Craig Campbell. "Scary Spice" Mel B - whose full name is Melanie Brown - was embroiled in a court stoush with Seven earlier this year when she tried to defect to Nine's Australia's Got Talent. The Supreme Court blocked the move, finding she remains contracted to Seven, and fellow Spice Girl Geri Halliwell got the job instead. But Ten was told Brown's guest appearance on The Project had been approved. "Her management said it was all good to go," Campbell said. Then there was a bit of a 'cease and desist' from Channel Seven that was enforced yesterday afternoon and we had to pull all our promos. In an interview with Fairfax Media today, Brown said, "I don't really know the ins and outs of it," before her publicist added, "She doesn't want to comment on that." A Seven spokesman declined to answer questions about the matter, referring Fairfax Media to earlier reports on the Supreme Court judgment. "It's a court ruling," he said. Brown is touring Australia to promote her new single For Once In My Life and will appear in the Lavazza marquee at Derby Day tomorrow. But while she has done many press and radio interviews, Seven has kept her on a short leash when it comes to TV. Brown appeared on Seven's The X Factor and Dancing With the Stars until the end of last year. She now lives in LA, where she recently starred as a judge on America's Got Talent. Yesterday, she said: "I am very excited to be co-hosting The Project on Friday night. I really love Australia and I'm thrilled to be back here, especially on television. Campbell, however, took the loss of his star guest in his stride. "For us, it's business," he said. We don't want to upset anyone - it's not in our world to do that - so when Seven told us about this, we went, 'You've actually got a fair point there.' It's all good. We've got a good show tonight anyway, with supermodel Tyson Beckford. Brown was the first Spice Girl to hit No. 1 as a solo artist with her 1998 single I Want You Back. The Spice Girls - who re-formed temporarily for the closing ceremony of the London Olympics - have sold 80 million records, making them the world's best-selling female group*. Corrected