Melanie Blake

Personal life

Blake was in a two-year on-off relationship with Michael Hutchence of INXS in the 1990s, describing him as "a man so devastatingly attractive that he could have made a nun break her chastity vows within minutes". In one of her columns, Blake detailed how she was left at the altar after her fiancé of five years got cold feet on the day, as well as how he tried to reconcile their relationship years later, to which she turned down his advances.