Geri “Ginger Spice” Halliwell spent Thursday night weighing up whether she really, really wants to stay in her marriage to Formula 1 boss Christina Horner after a #MeToo data drop had the world agog.
The Spice Girl, 51, was left “extremely humiliated,” the Daily Mail reported, after a tranche of intimate messages, allegedly sent by Horner, the principal of Red Bull Racing, to a female colleague, were leaked.
The texts were sent to nearly 200 people — among them, journalists and motor racing bosses including FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem and F1 chief executive Stefano Domenicali — in a large Google document.
The file was quickly shared.
By late Thursday night it seemed the document had, embarrassingly, been seen by most of Britain and was making its way around the world.
In it: Nearly 80 images of screenshots which revealed schoolboy demands to know what a woman was wearing.
“I keep thinking about Spanx,” the woman is asked in one message. Another says, “What’s underneath at the moment?”
Told that she looks “very attractive” in Spanx, the woman replies they are just leggings — prompting the man to say it’s what in them that counts.
Included are several pictures of Horner, as well as a photo that had Britain debating whether it was a penis or a misshapen finger. There is also a reference to a solo sex act in an airplane bathroom.
“Your wife would not be happy of you asking me for pictures in what I’m wearing,” reads a message from the alleged colleague.
“I always say would you like Geri doing this to her [personal assistant],” the woman asks.
She also points out that she “has to act in front of Geri.”
There are multiple requests, allegedly from Horner, for messages to be deleted.
“I am not going to comment on anonymous speculation from unknown sources,” Horner said Friday when asked about the leaked messages.
