The latest split to have rocked the showbiz world is looking like becoming, if not messy, then certainly heartbreaking.

Pregnant Mel B was on her way to the US when Eddie Murphy dropped the bombshell that she was dumped, on a Dutch TV station! Which means he's achieved the impossible and been an even harsher than Britney who dumped her husband via text message " and he wasn't even pregnant at the time (as far as we know anyway.)

Though the former Spice Girl is still too upset to go public, friends have confirmed that she had no idea what was on the cards " and she vehemently denies his accusation that the child she carries is not his.

A friend told The Mirror: "At first she thought it was some sort of joke not only has she been dumped but the man she loves has run off with someone else and is making her out to be some sort of slapper!"

Current reports suggest that the father of six and former star of such expensive flops as 'Pluto Nash' and 'Bowfinger,' whose great career-saving move was playing the voice of an annoying Donkey in Shrek, has now moved onto a new 'love' Tracy Edmonds, an American film producer.

It could well be, Mel, that the kind of guy who leaves his kids before they're even born, is not the kind of guy we'd want to see you shed a tear over.

So our advice: don't be 'Scary' Spice anymore, be 'Mary'-Christmas Spice instead!

'SL'