Christian Horner remembers meeting the Spice Girls member for the first time at a racing event and being left red-faced after the Baby Spice snubbed his kiss.
- March 12, 2023
AceShowbiz - Geri Halliwell refused to kiss her husband Christian Horner at their first meeting and made him settle for a handshake instead. Opening about his relationship with the Spice Girls star, the head of Red Bull's Formula One team thought he was going to be treated to a peck on the cheek when they were first introduced but he was left disappointed and red-faced when she offered him her hand.
"She was a guest of Bernie Ecclestone's in Monaco one year and came down the pit lane," he explained in an interview with The Telegraph. "I remember [McLaren boss] Ron Dennis was standing next to me and Eddie Jordan was there as well. Anyway, she gave Ron a kiss on the cheek, and she gave Eddie a kiss on the cheek. So I thought, 'OK, I'm on for a kiss on the cheek here!' And I went to give her one and she shoved her hand out at me!"
The pair's paths crossed again during a clay pigeon shoot at Highclere Castle in Hampshire, England and they later started dating. They married in 2015 and went on to become parents to a son named Montague together.
Christian went on to insist he didn't get together with Geri because of her pop star past, saying, "You know, life works in mysterious ways. I didn't marry Geri because she's a Spice Girl. I married her because I fell in love with her. It will be 10 years this time next year and we've been happily married for seven."
Christian is also a dad to a daughter from a previous relationship while Geri is mum to daughter Bluebell from her romance with screenwriter Sacha Gervasi.
