Spice Girl Mel B has swapped the glamour of the Hollywood Hills for a simple life down on the farm in her native Yorkshire, MailOnline can reveal. The singer spent £2.2m to secure the charming farmhouse set in verdant countryside outside the city where she grew up to provide a wholesome family home for her children. Spice Girl Melanie Brown, 49, went for the radical change of lifestyle after her LA dream soured and now revels in her new life in the countryside with hairdresser fiancee Rory McPhee and her youngest kids.

The farmhouse, which she describes as her 'happy house' is set in the rolling Yorkshire hills outside her native Leeds. It is no longer a working farm but Mel and her family keep a menagerie of animals, including goats, sheep, poultry, her two rottweiler dogs and Yorkshire terrier, Cookie. The idyllic pad in a secluded hamlet has five bedrooms, five-bathrooms and a one bedroom annex, as well as a detached office, double garage and stunning views across hills and a reservoir.

Outside, it has extensive gardens, an ornamental pond, two paddocks where Mel keeps her livestock and it is fringed by expansive woodland along the boundaries. It lies in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the fringe of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and is in a location studded with historic properties. She describes the farmhouse as her 'happy' place after her LA dream soured. Mel B (pictured in April last year) is living in the gorgeous house outside her hometown of Leeds.

The Spice Girl opted for a radical change of lifestyle and now revels in her new life in the countryside. The sprawling property has five bedrooms, five bathrooms and a one bedroom annex, as well as a detached office, double garage and stunning views across hills and a reservoir. The singer spent £2.2m to secure the charming farmhouse set in verdant countryside. Locals in the area she's moved have welcomed their famous neighbour.

One said: 'I hope she's really happy here, she's been through a lot in her life and she deserves to be happy after all the pleasure she's given to other people. 'It's a lovely place to live and she'll find the locals are dead friendly if she pops into the pubs while she's out walking the dogs.'. Mel has been keeping her Instagram followers updated on her new lifestyle, giving them a glimpse of the stone-flagged floors and towering ceilings as Rory risked life and limb decorating a 20ft Christmas tree in December.

Mel posted: 'Finally back home after a busy few months and Rory putting up the Christmas tree is just the best ! Look at him climbing the walls - but really being home is my happy place and I'm so glad. Now feels like Christmas is starting.'. Previously posting in the summer, she said: 'On Sundays we hug trees, spend time with the animals and have a Sunday dinner.'. And in October, she was pictured in a sports bra and hot pants bagging up fruit for her goats.

Mel has been keeping her Instagram followers updated on her new lifestyle, posing in a sports bra and hot pants while bagging up fruit for her goats last October. Previously posting in the summer, the 49-year-old said: 'On Sundays we hug trees, spend time with the animals and have a Sunday dinner. Her dream move to the countryside marks an end to her turbulent divorce from film producer Stephen Belafonte.

The farmhouse is set in the rolling Yorkshire hills outside her native Leeds. She posted: 'Me and the animals .. days at the farm, always havin' a good laugh - it's the simple things sometimes and I luvvvv playing with them soooo muchhh.'. However she had made no secret of the fact that her dream move to the countryside marks an end to her turbulent divorce from film producer Stephen Belafonte and the resulting financial turmoil.

In February last year she announced that her purchase of a new home had gone through - and spoke movingly abut how the move finally confirmed her financial independence. She told her 1.5m followers: 'I'm soooo overwhelmed right now. Sitting here with my 3 dogs not really able to speak but something has happened to me a few mins ago which is HUGE!!!. 'I want to share it with other survivors like me coz all YOU survivors out there will know how emotional this moment is. Five mins ago a man arrived at my door with a set of keys.

'They are the keys to my new home. A house I bought with the money I've worked bloody hard to pay for. It's taken me 5+ yrs to be able to do this.'. The farmhouse lies in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the fringe of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and is in a location studded with historic properties. Outside, it has extensive gardens, an ornamental pond, two paddocks where Mel keeps her livestock and it's fringed by expansive woodland along the boundaries.

Locals in the area have welcomed their famous neighbour, with one saying 'I hope she's really happy here'. She continued: 'In 2019, l had to come back to Leeds with NOTHING in my bank account. The money from the Spice Girls tour went on ENDLESS lawyers fees his [Belafonte's] and mine. 'Still being drained by my ex's nonstop demands for more more more, I had to move into my mum's bungalow my kids/ dogs/ low self esteem/failures/ divorced.