- Red Bull chief Christian Horner was cleared on misconduct on Wednesday
Geri Halliwell has been left ‘extraordinarily humiliated’ after a tranche of intimate messages her Formula One boss husband allegedly despatched to a girl colleague had been leaked final evening.
Friends of the ex-Spice Girl instructed the Mail she thought the scandal had lastly ‘gone away’ after Christian Horner was cleared of misconduct on Wednesday.
But now they warn the looks of the intimate messages will ‘destroy’ 51-year-old Ms Halliwell.
One stated: ‘All alongside Christian promised there was nothing in it.’
She had stood by the 50-year-old motorsport govt throughout an unbiased investigation by his firm after he was accused of coercive behaviour in direction of a girl worker.
Friends of the ex-Spice Girl instructed the Mail she thought the scandal had lastly ‘gone away’ after Christian Horner (pictured on Thursday in Bahrain) was cleared of misconduct on Wednesday
Red Bull crew principal Christian Horner and Spice Girl Geri Halliwell pose after the F1 Grand Prix of Italy at Autodromo di Monza on September 7, 2014
The messages come a day after Horner was instructed he can be cleared of a Red Bull probe into his behaviour
After being clared free to remain on as crew principal of the world-championship profitable crew on a wage of £8million a yr
The Red Bull boss was cleared of wrongdoing, permitting him to maintain his £8million-a-year job and fly out to Bahrain forward of the season-opening Grand Prix on Saturday. Friends of his spouse stated she had been ‘so very relieved’ that her household may lastly transfer on with their lives after Horner spent weeks below the highlight.
But simply 24 hours after being formally cleared, the Red Bull crew principal’s profession and marriage seem to have been plunged again into chaos. Hundreds of WhatsApp exchanges purportedly between Horner and the colleague, some sexual in nature, had been launched by way of an nameless e mail account.
There is not any manner of checking the validity of the prolonged and frequent messages which seem to modify between the mundane and the intimate.
The tranche of just about 80 screenshots – which included a variety of photographs – had been despatched to lots of of journalists and key figures in Formula One. One pal of the previous Spice Girl stated he now fears for the way the star, who has been left mortified on the embarrassing fall out, will be capable to comprehend such a public humiliation.
He stated: ‘Geri has been residing on this comfortable, comfortable 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 Halliwell faces recent torment tonight after WhatsApp texts and pictures stated 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 May
Halliwell and Horner attend the Gala Dinner for the F1 Grand Prix Of Monaco on May 28, 2023
Halliwell and Horner on the Larkhill Royal Artillery Point to Point in Wiltshire on January 27
‘Geri was pilloried when she obtained along with Christian as a result of he had simply had one other child with one other girl however she has labored arduous to rid that picture of herself and Christian, and specifically that she is a homewrecker.
‘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 will destroy her. All alongside Christian promised there was nothing in it.’
In latest weeks, Ms Halliwell was stated to be ‘mortified and offended’ together with her husband of just about ten years, who she has a seven-year-old son with, for humiliating her.
One supply near the star stated that she ‘wasn’t certain what to consider’ all through the saga however was decided to get by it with their marriage unscathed.
‘Geri is not any fish spouse however she lastly obtained the person she wished and he or she will not need to let him go. This may find yourself being an enormous dilemma for her,’ the supply stated.
Among these to obtain the file forward of this weekend’s race had been FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem and F1 chief govt Stefano Domenicali.
The Spice Girls star stated she is ‘actually grateful’ to have Christian Horner as her ‘greatest pal’
Horner and Halliwell in a vacation {photograph} taken on an unidentified seaside over Christmas
The couple tied the knot at a star-studded ceremony at St Mary’s Church in Woburn in 2015
All the crew principals had been additionally given copies, in addition to Red Bull star Max Verstappen’s father, Jos.
Shortly after the leak, 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 unbiased investigation and absolutely cooperated with it each step of the way in which. It was an intensive and honest investigation performed by an unbiased specialist barrister, and it has concluded dismissing the grievance made. I stay absolutely targeted on the beginning of the season.’
The world champion crew’s mother or father firm, Red Bull GmbH in Salzburg, had launched a probe into the accusations in opposition to Horner on February 5.
Announcing its conclusion on Wednesday, the corporate stated: ‘The unbiased investigation into the allegations made in opposition to Mr Horner is full, and Red Bull can verify that the grievance has been dismissed. The complainant has a proper of enchantment. Red Bull is assured that the investigation has been honest, rigorous and neutral. ‘
Horner, who has gained 13 world championships since heading the crew as a 31-year-old in 2005, had beforehand thanked his ‘very supportive spouse’ for her backing through the accusations.