{"id":257233,"date":"2025-07-11T21:44:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T21:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257233\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T21:44:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T21:44:18","slug":"amanda-platell-why-i-have-no-sympathy-for-vacuous-social-climbing-geri-halliwell-after-her-perfect-life-careered-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257233\/","title":{"rendered":"AMANDA PLATELL: Why I have no sympathy for vacuous, social-climbing Geri Halliwell after her perfect life careered out of control"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Ginger Spice Girl Geri Halliwell<\/a>‘s perfect life has suddenly exploded like a Formula 1 car careering into the barriers out of control.<\/p>\n

One moment, she’s self-appointed Queen of Formula 1 \u2013 a role she relished as wife of the multi-millionaire boss of the Red Bull team Christian Horner<\/a>. Now she’s a nobody after Horner’s dramatic dismissal from his job this week.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell and her husband Christian Horner. Horner has been sacked from his CEO role at Red Bull<\/p>\n

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Geri Halliwell and Christian Horner got married in 2015\u00a0at St Mary’s Church in Woburn, Bedfordshire<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

But the nudge-nudge rumours still surround the oh-so perfect Halliwell-Horner marriage.<\/p>\n

After all, what kind of married man finds himself caught up in a sexting scandal with a work colleague?<\/p>\n

But then, what kind of man leaves a wife just six months after she’s given birth to their child?<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

The joyful couple even posted their forthcoming nuptials in the Times newspaper, gloating that Mr CEJ Horner OBE and Miss GE Halliwell were engaged.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Tragically, it has just emerged that Beverley, 58, died recently after suffering from cancer – which makes the story all the more poignant.<\/p>\n

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.’<\/p>\n

I wonder how poor Beverley would have felt had she read Geri’s words. Because Horner tore her dreams of a family apart.<\/p>\n

Kim’s Taylor made \"Kim <\/p>\n

Kim Kardashian steps out in Paris after closing Demna’s final Balenciaga haute couture show<\/p>\n

Surgically enhanced and curvaceous Kim Kardashian pays homage to her heroine Elizabeth Taylor on the Paris catwalk, wearing an ivory slip inspired by the Hollywood goddess\u2019s role in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof along with the actress\u2019s own $375,000 diamond earrings. The difference is that Taylor\u2019s legendary hour-glass figure \u2013 tiny waist, bouncy buttocks and fulsome breasts \u2013 was all her own, rather than bought.<\/p>\n

A Durham University study concludes Coldplay are the most boring band in the world after comparing Chris Martin (100million albums and sold-out tours) with Kirsty MacColl (390,000 albums) and Patsy Cline (15million). What humbug! Why are our universities paid to engage in such nonsense. I\u2019m thinking their nerds are just Yellow with envy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Misled by memoirs\u00a0<\/p>\n

The row over best-selling book The Salt Path is not the first memoir to leave readers feeling betrayed. Another that sold millions of copies \u2013 Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert \u2013 was also made into a movie, starring Julia Roberts as Liz. After a divorce, our heroine gorged her way through a feast of hot Italian men and finally found love with a divine man she met in Bali, played by Javier Bardem. Then, after the film was released, Gilbert came out as a lesbian!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Westminster Wars<\/p>\n