Leading Light
Some questions are easier to answer than others, as Omari Douglas discovers when he hops onto our video call wearing his beloved Spice Girls t-shirt and is asked to reveal his favourite member of the band. It’s like a gay Sophie’s Choice. “Shit,” he gasps, with a look of genuine panic on his face. “I think it is Mel B.”
More of a Posh stan myself. “If it wasn’t Mel B, would be Vicky B,” he concurs, adding that he recently tumbled down a rabbit hole trying to figure out what happened to Victoria’s second solo album: “[I didn’t know] Resentment, which on Beyoncé’s B’Day album, she recorded it first. So, Beyoncé got a hand-me-down from Victoria Beckham – that’s mad!”
The official campaign to exhume VB’s buried music starts here.
Making his television debut as the irrepressible Roscoe Babatunde in Russell T Davies’ powerful Aids drama (more on that in a moment), Omari has since returned to his first love, theatre, and when we speak, he is in at the Vaudeville Theatre, just outside London’s Seven Dials.
