Is this the top of Geri Halliwell’s marriage?

Geri Halliwell is dealing with the ‘largest determination of her life’ over whether or not to go away her husband Christian Horner amid the textual content leak scandal, buddies have revealed. 

The Red Bull boss, 50, had been cleared of allegations of ‘coercive behaviour’ on Wednesday, however 24 hours later flirtatious textual content messages apparently exchanged between him and the feminine complainant have been divulged to 149 F1 figures. 

Halliwell, who married Horner at a star-studded marriage ceremony in 2015, touched down in Bahrain on a personal jet on Thursday evening to fulfill her husband forward of this weekend’s Formula One season opener within the Middle East. 

The Mail understands that the previous Spice Girl left the UK earlier than the leak and went ‘into meltdown’ when she arrived. Friends say that they’re ‘deeply involved’ for her and that she appeared ‘fragile’ some weeks in the past once they noticed her.

Halliwell, 51, will probably now return to the couple’s nation home within the Cotswolds and take her time to resolve what to do about her marriage behind closed doorways. 

She is aware of she is dealing with the most important determination of her life, one among her shut buddies has advised Mail+. ‘She acts on impulse rather a lot,’ one pal mentioned. ‘She has a mood on her, that is for positive, and does not Christian comprehend it.

‘But the query now that her internal circle is asking is whether or not Christian will likely be despatched to the canine home for just a few days or whether or not that is it for good. She labored arduous for all of this, she jumped by hoops to get him, so will she dump him?

Friends of the star say it might ‘break her coronary heart’ to finish her marriage to Christian — the person she sees because the ‘Prince Charming’ she has longed for since she was somewhat lady. 

It’s believed that the scandal has put the couple’s marriage ‘in query for the primary time’.

Halliwell has not but been seen within the paddock since arriving in Bahrain – the place Red Bull’s Max Verstappen tried to take the highlight off Horner by taking pole place in qualifying. 

The world champion was 0.228 seconds faster than Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in second, whereas Mercedes’ George Russell got here third and his team-mate Lewis Hamilton needed to accept ninth.

As it stands, Halliwell is planning to be at tomorrow’s Grand Prix in a public present of solidarity. 

The plan is that she will likely be at Horner’s aspect on the pre-race grid, alongside his main ally on the Red Bull board, Thai billionaire Chalerm Yoovidhya, who owns 51 per cent of the vitality drinks firm. 

One insider advised Mail Sport forward of the GP: ‘She [Halliwell] took off earlier than the e-mail landed. I do not know whether or not she will likely be on the race however it will likely be mayhem if she is.

‘It could be nuts. She could even be flying residence.’

As she arrived, her husband was pulled from the pit wall into a gathering with FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem. 

The couple had breathed a collective sigh of aid on Wednesday when Red Bull cleared Horner of misconduct and inappropriate behaviour allegations following a probe into his alleged relationship with the worker.

But the complainant fired again immediately, as a supply near her advised MailOnline that she was ‘very sad’ at Red Bull’s determination to clear the F1 boss.

A relative of the feminine worker mentioned: ‘My response to all that is that it’s disgusting. In the phrases of Red Bull, Christian Horner has been cleared however I feel many individuals have a look at that reply and might’t fairly fathom out the reality behind it. 

‘It’s clearly not going to relaxation now due to these leaks. I wasn’t conscious of the messages previous to them being picked up by the media and I do not know in any respect who’s answerable for the leak.

‘You all the time imagine your personal, do not you? I have not learn the textual content messages however there was by no means any relationship between her and Christian – God, no. She does not talk about that form of stuff with us.

‘If you’re employed for an individual like him, you reside with many items of data that aren’t to be disclosed. She definitely hasn’t spoken to me about it.’

The supply went on: ‘We communicate day-after-day and he or she’s very sad – in fact. In her mind-set it is all very one-sided and he or she’s been crucified.

‘Are the Red Bull investigation staff unbiased? Who is aware of? They’ve made comparisons within the newspapers about Christian being grilled for 12 hours or so…properly what number of hours was she grilled for? They do not ask that query, however it’s much more than that.’ 

On Thursday, a sequence of WhatsApp texts and images have been launched to dozens of journalists and key figures in sport, throwing the scandal again into the general public into the highlight as soon as once more.

Horner vowed to battle on inside hours of the scandal deepening, and was immediately pictured in his Red Bull gear forward of follow for the Bahrain Grand Prix.

It comes as buddies near Halliwell, who stood by her husband of 9 years resolutely all through the inner probe, revealed she is ‘having the meltdown to finish all meltdowns over the leaks’.

The mother-of-two has been left ‘feeling humiliated’ after the messages have been unfold ‘so broadly on the market’, a pal added.

Hundreds of intimate WhatsApp exchanges purportedly between Horner and the colleague have been launched by way of an nameless e-mail account.

Horner was solely cleared by Red Bull’s Salzburg-based guardian firm – and advised he might keep on as staff principal of the world-championship on a £8million-a-year-salary – 24 hours earlier than the texts dropped.

Halliwell had advised buddies that she was ‘relieved and elated’ that the claims towards her accomplice, with whom she shares seven-year-old son Monty, had lastly been dropped.

Friends of the Spice Girl advised the Mail she thought the scandal had ‘lastly gone away’ however have warned the looks of the intimate messages – to which there are 79 screenshots – might ‘destroy’ her.

One mentioned: ‘All alongside Christian promised there was nothing in it.’

Another mentioned he now fears for a way the star, who has been left mortified on the embarrassing fall out, will be capable to comprehend such a public humiliation.

He mentioned: ‘Geri has been dwelling on this blissful, blissful 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 was pilloried when she received along with Christian as a result of he had simply had one other child with one other lady 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 may have began once more. 

‘This will destroy her. All alongside Christian promised there was nothing in it.’

One supply near the star mentioned that she ‘wasn’t positive what to imagine’ all through the saga however was decided to get by it with their marriage unscathed.

‘Geri is not any fish spouse however she lastly received the person she wished and he or she will not wish to let him go. This might find yourself being an enormous dilemma for her,’ the supply mentioned.

The tranche of messages have been despatched to FIA president Mohammad Ben Sulayem and F1 chief govt Stefano Domenicali. All the staff principals have been copied in, together with star driver Max Verstappen’s father Jos.

Earlier this month Halliwell had briefly unfollowed world champion Verstappen on Instagram after the allegations towards Horner first got here to gentle. Sources near the star mentioned final evening that this was an ’emotional response’ which she thought would go unnoticed.

Reigning world champion Verstappen was quizzed forward of the Bahrain Grand Prix yesterday over whether or not Red Bull’s probe into Horner had impacted or altered the staff’s preparations for the season.

The Dutchman, insisting that his focus has not been altered, replied: ‘It does not. I’m very centered on simply the efficiency of the automobile and myself.

‘Hopefully it will likely be resolved very quickly. It’s an entire staff effort that everybody has to stay collectively and work to extra success, in order that’s why it is necessary to get all the pieces resolved very quickly.

‘(Horner) is essential in any other case he would not have been in that place for such a very long time.’

The intense highlight on Horner in latest weeks had already began to take a pressure on the couple’s residence life – which they cut up between their farmhouse, and stables, in Oxfordshire and a house in North London. 

A supply near the pair mentioned final evening the previous couple of weeks had been ‘hell for Christian and his household’ and he had all the time branded the claims as being ‘nuts’.

‘Geri is devastated and has been struggling to eat and sleep. Her household and fellow Spice Girls are fearful about her,’ the supply mentioned final week forward of Horner being cleared.

‘I hear Christian is attempting to pep her as much as keep optimistic, however she has gone to floor in the way in which she did after she left the Spice Girls. She’s not talking to anybody.’ 

Shortly after the leak yesterday, Horner launched an announcement which learn: ‘I can’t touch upon nameless hypothesis, however to reiterate I’ve all the time denied the allegations.

‘I revered the integrity of the unbiased investigation and totally 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 criticism made. I stay totally centered on the beginning of the season.’

Announcing its conclusion on Wednesday, the corporate mentioned: ‘The unbiased investigation into the allegations made towards 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 received 13 world championships since heading the staff as a 31-year-old in 2005, had beforehand thanked his ‘very supportive spouse’ for her backing throughout the accusations.

Halliwell and Horner blended in social circles earlier than they struck up a romance, having first met one another on the Monaco Grand Prix in 2009.

‘[Geri] was a visitor of [former CEO of the Formula One Group] Bernie Ecclestone’s in Monaco one yr and got here down the pit lane,’ Horner beforehand advised The Telegraph. ‘I keep in mind [McLaren boss] Ron Dennis was standing subsequent to me and Eddie Jordan was there as properly.

‘She gave Ron a kiss on the cheek, and he or she gave Eddie a kiss on the cheek. So I believed, ‘OK, I’m on for a kiss on the cheek right here!’ And I went to present her one and he or she shoved her hand out at me.’

Their relationship, nevertheless, received off to a rocky begin, coming underneath hearth after the Red Bull chief left his long-term accomplice Beverley Allen six months after she gave beginning to their daughter Olivia.

While the couple took a brief break to see if Horner might rescue his relationship with the mom of his youngster, simply 9 months later he introduced his engagement to Ginger Spice in an commercial within the The Times in 2014.

It mentioned: ‘The engagement is introduced between Christian, son of Mr and Mrs G.M. Horner and Geraldine, daughter of the late Mr L.F. Halliwell and Mrs A Parkinson.’

The former Spice Girl and Red Bull boss tied the knot at St Mary’s Church in Woburn, Bedfordshire, in 2015.

Halliwell’s A-line lace bridal robe was designed by British designer Phillipa Lepley.

Her nine-year-old daughter, Bluebell, whom she had with screenwriter Sacha Gervasi in 2005, additionally attended the marriage.

Guests included Geri’s former Spice Girls co-star Emma Bunton, radio presenter and singer Myleene Klass, and TV presenter Amanda Holden.

Christian’s dad and mom have been reportedly left devastated when the sporting skilled left Ms Allen to be with the chart-topping star and due to this fact selected to not see the duo tie the knot.

A supply near the couple beforehand mentioned: ‘Geri and Christian are disenchanted that his dad and mom aren’t coming.’

Horner has received 13 world championships since heading the staff as a 31-year-old in 2005. He was then the youngest staff principal on the grid, but is now its longest-serving.