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Former Ginger Spice Girl Geri Halliwell‘s perfect life has suddenly exploded like a Formula 1 car careering into the barriers out of control.
One moment, she’s self-appointed Queen of Formula 1 – a role she relished as wife of the multi-millionaire boss of the Red Bull team Christian Horner. Now she’s a nobody after Horner’s dramatic dismissal from his job this week.
She set her eye on Horner back in 2009 after they were introduced by F1 billionaire Bernie Ecclestone. By 2014 Horner had left his wife Beverley after 14 years together. This was just six months after Beverley had given birth to their longed-for child.
Another year on, and Geri was marrying Horner – whose parents were reportedly so appalled by the union and by his treatment of Beverley that they refused to attend the wedding.
No matter. Geri was, it seems, where she wanted to be – the chatelaine of two grand manor houses, one in Oxfordshire, the other in Hertfordshire. She had home gyms, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, farmland, boating lakes, horses, goats and chickens.
And she was ruling the society roost on the FI circuit, as if to the manor born. A far remove from the Watford council estate where she grew up.
Now her husband’s out of his job of 20 years, in ‘shock’ over his dismissal, she’s no longer the queen bee – and I feel not a shred of sympathy for either of them.
Although Red Bull will not confirm it, his departure has been linked to behaviour that could not have been more humiliating for Geri – a sexting scandal last year in which he allegedly shared inappropriate messages with a junior employee.
Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell and her husband Christian Horner. Horner has been sacked from his CEO role at Red Bull
Geri Halliwell and Christian Horner got married in 2015at St Mary’s Church in Woburn, Bedfordshire
He was twice cleared of the claims, firstly after an internal investigation by a lawyer, then by another lawyer who dismissed the complainant’s appeal, and she stood by him.
But the nudge-nudge rumours still surround the oh-so perfect Halliwell-Horner marriage.
After all, what kind of married man finds himself caught up in a sexting scandal with a work colleague?
But then, what kind of man leaves a wife just six months after she’s given birth to their child?
And how must Geri – the former Spice Girl who built her brand on girl power, love and friendship to all women – have felt about her husband’s treatment of Beverley?
The joyful couple even posted their forthcoming nuptials in the Times newspaper, gloating that Mr CEJ Horner OBE and Miss GE Halliwell were engaged.
One can only imagine the pain that would have caused the former Mrs Horner, the anguish she’d have suffered feeling she’d been abandoned to be replaced by a vacuous, social climbing Ginger Spice Girl.
Tragically, it has just emerged that Beverley, 58, died recently after suffering from cancer – which makes the story all the more poignant.
In a recent interview, Halliwell spoke of her and Horner’s millionaire life together, saying: ‘We walk dogs together, we’re very much old-school and family focused.’
I wonder how poor Beverley would have felt had she read Geri’s words. Because Horner tore her dreams of a family apart.
