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Geri Halliwell and Christian Horner’s ‘marriage is now in query for the primary time’ pals revealed to MailOnline final night time after a humiliating text-exchange between the F1 boss and a feminine worker have been leaked.
The couple had breathed a collective sigh of aid on Wednesday when Pink Bull cleared Horner of misconduct and inappropriate behaviour allegations.
However final night time, a sequence WhatsApp texts and images have been launched to dozens of journalists and key figures in sport, throwing the scandal again into the general public into the highlight as soon as once more.
Buddies near the Spice Lady, who stood by her husband of 9 years resolutely all through the inner probe, have revealed she is now ‘having the meltdown to all meltdowns over the leaks’.
Halliwell had deliberate to fly out to the Grand Prix happening in Bahrain this weekend to reunite publicly with Horner, however these near the previous popstar have mentioned it’s now ‘extremely unlikely’ that she is going to be part of him.
As a substitute the mother-of-two has been left ‘feeling humiliated’ after the messages have been unfold ‘so extensively on the market’, a good friend added.
Lots of of intimate WhatsApp exchanges purportedly between Horner and the colleague have been launched through an nameless electronic mail account.
Geri Halliwell faces recent torment tonight after WhatsApp texts and photographs mentioned to have been exchanged between her F1 husband Christian Horner to a feminine worker are leaked. Pictured: Halliwell and Horner collectively on the Monaco Grand Prix final Might
Geri Halliwell and Christian Horner’s ‘marriage is now in query for the primary time’ pals revealed to MailOnline final night time. Pictured: The couple at their wedding ceremony in 2015
Buddies near the Spice Lady mentioned she is ‘having the meltdown to all meltdowns over the leaks’
Horner and Halliwell in a vacation {photograph} taken on an unidentified seashore over Christmas
Horner was solely cleared by Pink Bull’s Salzburg-based father or mother firm – and advised he might keep on as workforce principal of the world-championship on a £8million-a-year-salary – 24 hours earlier than the texts dropped.
Halliwell had advised pals that she was ‘relieved and elated’ that the claims in opposition to her accomplice, who she shares seven-year-old son Monty, had lastly been dropped.
Buddies of the ex-Spice Lady advised the Mail she although the scandal had ‘lastly gone away’ however have warned the looks of the intimate messages – to which there are 79 screenshots – might ‘destroy’ her.
One mentioned: ‘All alongside Christian promised there was nothing in it.’
One other mentioned he now fears for a way the star, who has been left mortified on the embarrassing fall out, will be capable to comprehend such a public humiliation.
He mentioned: ‘Geri has been residing on this completely happy, completely happy bubble for therefore a few years now, she thought she had her prince and her knight in shining armour however now this.
‘She thought that it had all gone away, she was delighted and over the moon when she realized Christian had been cleared.
‘Geri was pilloried when she acquired along with Christian as a result of he had simply had one other child with one other girl however she has labored exhausting to rid that picture of herself and Christian, and specifically that she is a homewrecker.
Pink Bull workforce principal Christian Horner and Spice Lady Geri Halliwell pose after the F1 Grand Prix of Italy at Autodromo di Monza on September 7, 2014
The couple tied the knot at a star-studded ceremony at St Mary’s Church in Woburn in 2015
Miss Halliwell threw her husband Horner a shock fiftieth party in December final yr
‘Now it has all come crashing down. The tears stopped when the judgment got here in on Wednesday, now they completely can have began once more.
‘This can destroy her. All alongside Christian promised there was nothing in it.’
One supply near the star mentioned that she ‘wasn’t certain what to consider’ all through the saga however was decided to get by way of it with their marriage unscathed.
‘Geri is not any fish spouse however she lastly acquired the person she needed and she or he will not need to let him go. This might find yourself being an enormous dilemma for her,’ the supply mentioned.
The tranche of messages have been despatched to FIA president Mohammad Ben Sulayem and F1 chief government Stefano Domenicali. All of the workforce principals have been copied in, together with star driver Max Verstappen’s father Jos.
Earlier this month Halliwell had briefly unfollowed world champion Verstappen on Instagram after the allegations in opposition to Horner first got here to mild. Sources near the star mentioned tonight that this was an ’emotional response’ which she thought would go unnoticed.
Reigning world champion Verstappen was quizzed forward of the Bahrain Grand Prix yesterday over whether or not Pink Bull’s probe into Horner had impacted or altered the workforce’s preparations for the season.
The Dutchman, insisting that his focus has not been altered, replied: ‘It would not. I am very centered on simply the efficiency of the automotive and myself.
‘Hopefully it is going to be resolved very quickly. It is an entire workforce effort that everybody has to stay collectively and work to extra success, in order that’s why it is vital to get every part resolved very quickly.
‘(Horner) is essential in any other case he would not have been in that place for such a very long time.’
The extreme highlight on Horner in latest weeks had already began to take a pressure on the couple’s house life – which they cut up between their farmhouse, and stables, in Oxfordshire and a house in North London.
A supply near the pair mentioned final night time the previous couple of weeks had been ‘hell for Christian and his household’ and he had at all times branded the claims as being ‘nuts’.
‘Geri is devastated and has been struggling to eat and sleep. Her household and fellow Spice Ladies are nervous about her,’ the supply mentioned final week forward of Horner being cleared.
‘I hear Christian is making an attempt to pep her as much as keep optimistic, however she has gone to floor in the best way she did after she left the Spice Ladies. She’s not chatting with anybody.’
Shortly after the leak yesterday, Horner launched an announcement which learn: ‘I can’t touch upon nameless hypothesis, however to reiterate I’ve at all times denied the allegations.
‘I revered the integrity of the impartial investigation and totally cooperated with it each step of the best way.
‘It was an intensive and truthful investigation carried out by an impartial specialist barrister, and it has concluded dismissing the grievance made. I stay totally centered on the beginning of the season.’
The messages come a day after Horner was advised he can be cleared of a Pink Bull probe into his behaviour
Halliwell and Horner on the Larkhill Royal Artillery Level to Level in Wiltshire on January 27
The Spice Ladies star mentioned she is ‘actually grateful’ to have Christian Horner as her ‘finest good friend’
Horner and Halliwell meet then-Prince Charles at a Prince’s Belief occasion in London in 2019
Asserting its conclusion on Wednesday, the corporate mentioned: ‘The impartial investigation into the allegations made in opposition to Mr Horner is full, and Pink Bull can verify that the grievance has been dismissed.
The complainant has a proper of attraction. Pink Bull is assured that the investigation has been truthful, rigorous and neutral. ‘
Horner, who has received 13 world championships since heading the workforce as a 31-year-old in 2005, had beforehand thanked his ‘very supportive spouse’ for her backing throughout the accusations.
Halliwell and Horner blended in social circles earlier than they struck up a romance, having first met one another on the Monaco Grand Prix in 2009.
‘[Geri] was a visitor of [former CEO of the Formula One Group] Bernie Ecclestone’s in Monaco one yr and got here down the pit lane,’ Horner beforehand advised The Telegraph. ‘I keep in mind [McLaren boss] Ron Dennis was standing subsequent to me and Eddie Jordan was there as properly.
‘She gave Ron a kiss on the cheek, and she or he gave Eddie a kiss on the cheek. So I assumed, ‘OK, I am on for a kiss on the cheek right here!’ And I went to offer her one and she or he shoved her hand out at me.’
Their relationship, nevertheless, acquired off to a rocky begin, coming underneath fireplace after the Pink Bull chief left his long-term accomplice Beverley Allen six months after she gave beginning to their daughter Olivia.
Whereas the couple took a brief break to see if Horner might rescue his relationship with the mom of his youngster, simply 9 months later he introduced his engagement to Ginger Spice in an commercial within the The Occasions in 2014.
Christian Horner, pictured with Prince Harry earlier than the Texas Grand Prix in October final yr
Ginger Spice and Horner are pictured on the World Premiere of ‘The Moonwalkers’ final December
Christian and Geri’s relationship got here underneath fireplace after the Method One boss left his long-term accomplice Beverley Allen (pictured) six months after the beginning of their daughter, Olivia
Halliwell and Horner attend the Gala Dinner for the F1 Grand Prix Of Monaco on Might 28, 2023
It mentioned: ‘The engagement is introduced between Christian, son of Mr and Mrs G.M. Horner and Geraldine, daughter of the late Mr L.F. Halliwell and Mrs A Parkinson.’
The previous Spice Lady and Pink Bull boss tied the knot at St Mary’s Church in Woburn, Bedfordshire, in 2015.
Halliwell’s A-line lace bridal robe was designed by British designer Phillipa Lepley.
Her nine-year-old daughter, Bluebell, whom she had with screenwriter Sacha Gervasi in 2005, additionally attended the marriage.
Friends included Geri’s former Spice Ladies co-star Emma Bunton, radio presenter and singer Myleene Klass, and TV presenter Amanda Holden.
Christian’s dad and mom have been reportedly left devastated when the sporting skilled left Ms Allen to be with the chart-topping star and due to this fact selected to not see the duo tie the knot.
A supply near the couple beforehand mentioned: ‘Geri and Christian are dissatisfied that his dad and mom aren’t coming.’
Horner has received 13 world championships since heading the workforce as a 31-year-old in 2005. He was then the youngest workforce principal on the grid, but is now its longest-serving.
