Geri Halliwell’s accessory to ‘ward off evil’ as she stood next to hubby
GERI Halliwell was seen wearing a spiritual bracelet to “ward off evil” as she stood next to scandal-hit Christian Horner.
The Spice Girl, 51, presented a united front with the under-fire F1 Red Bull boss at the Bahrain Grand Prix yesterday.
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She had landed in the Middle East on Thursday evening, when a flurry of sexually suggestive WhatsApp messages and photos between 50-year-old Horner and a female employee rocked the F1 world.
Despite the storm surrounding her scandal-hit marriage to Horner, Geri turned up at the Bahrain Grand Prix to watch her husband engineer a dominant victory for world champion Max Verstappen.
However, the pop icon was seen bringing out her spiritual side in a bid to protect scandal-hit Horner.
Photos showed Geri wearing a red string bracelet on her left wrist, showing her commitment to the Jewish spiritual teachings of Kabbalah, a belief she has long followed.
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It is believed that wearing the sacred bracelet wards off ‘evil and misfortune’.
Sources close to the pop icon suggest that Geri has become increasingly spiritual over the years and has lately been interceding to help deal with the pressure her husband was putting on their marriage.
A source told the newspaper Mail: “Geri is really into hippie-dippy spiritual healing, she really believes in it and has been trying to use it a lot lately.
“Meditation is her big thing, she swears by it.”
The spice girl even wore her signature white dress as she showed her ‘bravery’ and showed a show of solidarity
Following the shocking sexting claims, Geri is said to have felt ‘a fool’ for trusting her ‘prince charming’ husband after he played down the messages.
The singer now faces “the biggest decision of her life” as she decides what the next step in her marriage to Horner will be, her friends said.
Friends of the star reportedly stated that it would “break her heart” to end things with Christian as she sees him as the man she has been waiting for since she was a little girl.
An insider said: “She often acts impulsively. She has a temper, that’s for sure, and doesn’t Christian know that?
It’s understood Geri “had a meltdown” when she landed in Bahrain and discovered Horner’s sext leak.
But she still publicly showed her affection in an effort to support her scandal-stricken husband.
Ginger Spice walked hand in hand with her husband to a catering area prior to the race yesterday.
They shared an awkward hug before Horner leaned in and planted a fawning kiss on his wife’s cheek as he wrapped his arm around her back.
After Red Bull’s world champion Max Verstappen stormed to victory in yesterday’s season opener, Geri was hugged tightly by her husband as she flashed a forced smile for the cameras.
The public displays of affection came as showbiz sources said Geri had been considering the future of her nine-year marriage to Horner, the father of her seven-year-old son.
Someone close to the singer said: “Many people who know her are surprised by this show of support.
“There is absolutely no doubt that she is furious and has read him the riot act about what happened.”
Horner’s series of shock sexts to a female colleague were leaked after the F1 boss was cleared in a Red Bull investigation last week.
The series of messages and photos show details of private conversations between the F1 boss and an unknown employee who appears to be a woman.
The series of WhatsApp messages, which also named Horner’s wife Geri Halliwell, were sent from an anonymous email to hundreds of journalists.
Some of them appeared to show him asking the woman for photos and in others he appeared to discuss a solo sex act in an airplane toilet.
Horner said he “will not comment on anonymous speculation” after material allegedly part of Red Bull’s recent investigation into him was leaked.
The racing chief previously declined to comment on the leaked WhatsApp sexts, which were sent anonymously to F1 bosses and media outlets on Thursday.
How Christian Horner’s shock texts were leaked
By Ben Hunt
IT was an anonymous email sent and designed for maximum impact.
It landed in my inbox almost 24 hours a minute since Christian Horner was cleared of any wrongdoing following Red Bull’s internal investigation.
Other names included Liberty Media chief Greg Maffei, who owns the rights to F1. The FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem and F1 CEO Stefano Dominacali.
For good measure, the F1 team bosses were also included. Just like Max Verstappen’s father, Jos.
It was from an anonymous sender, the title was simply the date: ‘Feb Twenty Nine’.
Inside was a Google Drive link with 79 files claiming to be evidence of the independent investigation.
There’s no way of knowing if they were real or fake, but either way it sent shockwaves through the F1 paddock before this season had even started.
Horner was sitting on the team’s pit wall during the second practice session in Bahrain when the email dropped.
After the session, he walked out of the team garage and went to the catering unit where he was staying when the nuclear fallout began.
He had survived the outcome of the internal investigation into improper conduct following a complaint from a female colleague.
One wonders if he will survive this time after this very public humiliation – again, regardless of whether they were indeed real or fake.
Just hours earlier, McLaren CEO Zak Brown and Mercedes boss Toto Wolff had appealed to the sport’s governing body, the FIA, demanding transparency.
“I just read the statement, which was quite simple,” Wolff said. “My personal opinion is that we can’t really see behind the curtain.
“There’s a lady in an organization who spoke to HR and said there was an issue and it was looked into and yesterday the sport got the message that it’s all fine, we’ve looked into it.
“I believe that as we strive to be a global sport, on such crucial topics, there needs to be more transparency and I wonder what the position of the sport is?
“We are competitors, we are a team and we can have our own personal opinion or not. But it is more of a general reaction or action that we have to judge as a sport, what is right in that situation and what is wrong.” .
“Are we talking with the right moral approach, with the values based on the speculation that is out there? As a sport, we cannot afford to leave things vague and opaque on critical topics like this because it will take us by surprise. ” “
Brown added: “It is ultimately the responsibility of the organizers of Formula 1, the owners of Formula 1, to ensure that all racing teams and staff, drivers and everyone else involved in the sport operate in a way which we all live by.
“I don’t think it’s the roles and responsibilities of the teams. That’s for the FIA and Formula 1 to ultimately decide and ask for what they think will give them the level of transparency they need to ultimately reach their conclusion and we just have to count on them to fulfill that obligation to all of us.”
The emailed dossier will only increase that pressure in the form of scrutiny of Horner – who has always denied the allegations.
It also puts Red Bull in a difficult position.
Should the emailed file be legitimate and contain elements of the original report, which was thoroughly investigated and presented by the independent QC, then this is certainly nothing new to them and their decision to remain with their team leader remains.
If they were to make an about-face now, now that they’ve gone public, there could potentially be criticism that they planned to keep their report private to save face.
Whatever the outcome, it’s a mess for the world champions.
Reports of a wedge between Horner and Verstappen’s father have increased in recent weeks.
So it was interesting that Jos Verstappen was in the paddock wearing a team jacket and seemed unmoved by the chaos happening around him.
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