Career
Mellor was discovered by a model agent while modelling bridal wear for a work colleague"s wife. In the subsequent Mission World competition, Mellor placed equal tenth in the preliminary round but did not advance to the semi-final round (top 12) because the rules stated that the semi-finals had to have at least one contestant from each continent, so while contestants such as Mission Nigeria (Africa) made it through with a score of 19, Mellor (with a score of 25) did not advance.