AMANDA PLATELL: What did Geri expect from marrying a man like F1’s Horner?

When ex-Spice girl Geri Halliwell first met multi-millionaire Formula 1 boss Christian Horner almost a decade ago, she described him as ‘her prince, her knight in shining armor’.

With his £41 million fortune and an annual salary of £8 million, he catapulted the washed-up single mother of one pop star into a world of unimaginable riches.

Two sprawling estates, another lavish home in North London and flights around the world so she could always be by his side in the billionaire playground of the F1 circuit.

Her fairytale lifestyle as Mrs. Geri Horner was pure gold; it became the personification of the Spice Girls’ hit Viva Forever: ‘Forever I will wait, forever, like the sun.’

Well, the sun may be setting on their romance now.

Because just 24 hours after Horner was acquitted this week of ‘coercive conduct’ at work, WhatsApp messages of a sexual nature, allegedly between him and an unknown colleague, were leaked anonymously to his F1 bosses.

Should Geri really be surprised? After all, let’s not forget that when she started her relationship with Christian, he had just dumped another poor woman, even though she had given birth to their child just six months earlier.

His parents were so disgusted by their son’s betrayal that they refused to attend his lavish wedding to Geri.

Meanwhile, Geri created a gilded image of their life – sharing their country homes with their children – in the glossy celebrity magazine Hello!. It turned out to be the happiest family.

These WhatsApp ‘sexts’ seem to tell a different story.

Geri should have been wise enough to realize that Christian would always be someone who would get tired of her and look for other attractions. If a man leaves his partner six months after the birth of their child, why would you think he would remain faithful to you? Maybe, in her arrogance, she thought this could never happen to her.

But a leopard never changes its spot. Now her husband appears to have cheated on Geri.

And the golden life he thought he had given her could be irreparably damaged.

Fashion experts are declaring ‘the end of the bra’ after Saint Laurent’s collection features skeletal models in see-through dresses. Waste. Size zero models don’t suffer from real breasts that require a supportive bra.

You can think of it as red. . . Monica is back

Twenty-six years after Monica Lewinsky was ashamed of her lurid dealings with President Bill Clinton in the Oval Office and retreated into purdah, she has re-emerged at the age of 50 as a feminist icon, resplendent in the new ‘power’ – Reformation campaign for workwear. defiantly wearing power red. I guess a blue dress was out of the question.

Hairy biker Dave Myers’ last photo before his death from cancer was of him and his best friend Si King on the couch watching TV. Their crazy cooking and cycling adventures captured the hearts of millions of people for decades, but in the end we loved their friendship most of all. That led to Si’s perfect epitaph: “My best friend is on a journey that I can’t follow for a while.”

BBC needs to say sorry to us

The then 17-year-old’s family paid £35,000 from Huw Edwards for sexual photos and say they were ‘torn apart’ and the Beeb has apologised. We’re told Huw is too ill to respond to a BBC investigation and has been suspended on full wages of £435,000 since July. Auntie should also apologize to the license fee payers for still lining his pockets.

Oprah Winfrey admitted she was taking weight-loss drugs. Coincidentally, she is leaving the board of WeightWatchers, which promotes natural weight loss through calorie counting.

It’s not a good prospect that Oprah has cheated, although there is some justice that her £34 million stake in the company will have been hit by an 18 percent share price fall.

Westminster Wars

Angela Rayner is accused of not being transparent about whether she actually lived in a council house she sold, making a profit of £48,500. All very complicated, but providing false information about the electoral register is an offense. Keir Starmer said he had ‘absolute confidence in the answers her team had provided’. Hardly a resounding endorsement.

What does it say about British politics if George Galloway wins the Rochdale by-election? He is a disgusting man whose career ‘peaked’ when he wore a cross-tie Lycra bodysuit on Celebrity Big Brother and meowed while pretending to be a cat.

Checking a prince

After losing his legal battle over taxpayer-funded police security, Prince Harry vows to appeal the decision. Baffling, considering Ken Wharfe, his mother’s former bodyguard, says he will always be protected here as he is still a prince of the realm.

But given his destruction of the royal family, Harry may need extra protection from those of us who can’t stand what he’s doing to King and Country.

Holly’s show skates on thin ice

Does Holly Willoughby regret her quick exit from presenting ITV’s This Morning in a £1million deal, following the Phillip Schofield debacle and an alleged threat to her life?

Her only TV presenting role is now on Dancing On Ice, which has fallen into trouble with just 2.9 million watching its main Saturday evening slot – down from 12 million in its heyday. No wonder Holly’s smile looks as frozen as that ice rink.

After Charlotte Church led a choir singing “From the River to the Sea” while wearing a pro-Palestinian keffiyeh scarf, she insisted she is not anti-Semitic, just pro-peace. Perhaps the £450-a-night guests at her wellness retreat The Dreaming will soon get a free scarf or a Hamas paraglider badge.

Producers of the West End’s Slave Play have banned white people and declared that on two specific nights only an ‘all black identifying audience’ can attend.

Very good. But what stops a white person from “identifying” as a black person?

Why I’m proud to pay UK tax

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is considering scrapping ‘non-dom’ tax status to raise £3.6 billion for tax cuts.

When I was a newly arrived Australian citizen on a six-figure salary in the 1980s, my accountant suggested I register as a non-dom because I had a house in Oz and could avoid paying UK tax.

I said, if Britain is willing to give me a new life, why shouldn’t I pay taxes here?

After a decade in the pop wilderness, Girls Aloud announced their comeback – happy to reveal that their first return gig won’t be Glastonbury or any of the other big music festivals like Reading or Isle of Wight, but this year’s LGBT+ festival, Brighton Pride. Wear it with pride ladies, out loud.

Disappointing to fans that Adele, 35, has – at short notice – postponed a series of her Las Vegas residency dates due to health concerns, especially as it means they won’t get their money back (had she canceled the dates they would have) . have) and some have paid £6,000 per ticket.

I think she’s Rolling In The Deep Doo-doo now.