Touché as Seven wins injunction against Mel B switching to Nine

Seven has hit back hard over Nine’s signing of Mel B. for Australia’s Got Talent.

It has gone to the Supreme Court and taken out an injunction against Melanie Brown appearing on Nine.

It alleges Brown was under a conditional contract preventing her from signing with any person or company other than Seven until 2014.

Seven is smarting over Brown telling them she would not be doing The X Factor due to visa problems for her family. It is believed the father of her son, Eddie Murphy, was objecting to him spending so much time in Australia.

Seven was shocked to later discover she had signed with Nine.

Its move to thwart her actions legally is a tactical response. The court ruled Brown was “restrained from entering into or performing any agreement with any person other than (Channel 7) for her to appear on television in Australia at any time before 31 January 2014.”

It also ordered her husband Stephen Belafonte against “assisting, inducing or otherwise procuring (Brown)” to enter into a deal with any network other than Channel 7.

The court heard the Nine Network will be added as a defendant alongside Brown in the case, when it returns for further hearings on March 25.

“As the matter is before the courts, it would not be appropriate to comment further at this stage,” a Seven spokesman said.

Maybe Nine can go and sign Mel C instead and just claim it was all a typo?

Source: Daily Telegraph