Geri Horner and Mel B’s worst fights ever – “She’s going to hate me for this!”
Geri Horner and Mel B’s turbulent relationship is said to be hanging in the balance after a latest round of stormy rows – but it’s by no means the first time the pair have come to blows
This week the much-teased Spice Girls reunion tour was left in tatters after Geri Horner sensationally pulled out after clashing with Mel B.
A source told MailOnline: “Geri has had enough to deal with after all the drama with her husband’s relationship with his assistant – it has been a tough enough time – and she’s just lost patience with Mel and her little digs and jibes.
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“She’s walked away and without Geri it’s really not going to happen – in the past she’s been a driving force in the group, but she doesn’t want to deal with Mel at all at the moment let alone share a stage with her.”
It’s the latest in a long-line of drama for the warring pair. The duo only just managed to salvage their friendship after Mel sensationally revealed that she and Geri had a secret lesbian fling at the height of the band’s fame.
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Mel said Geri would kill her for the accusation, but admitted she, Geri and all the Spices had ‘fought like cats and dogs’ during their time in the spotlight – but it was Geri with whom things got really personal.
We take a look back at their twenty year long feud.
Geri’s departure from the band
In the band’s 90s heyday, rumours of infighting between Mel, Geri and bandmates Victoria, Emma and Mel C were rife.
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Less than two years after their debut single Wannabe hit the top spot, Geri announced she’d had enough and confirmed her departure from the group in May 1998 leaving fans devastated.
Her decision to leave at the peak of the band’s fame and right before a huge US tour was never going to be well received, but her decision to quit on Mel’s birthday really touched a nerve.
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“When Geri left the group, it was bad,” Mel said of their relationship in a TV interview. “She left on my birthday and didn’t tell anybody. She didn’t show up. We had the American part of the tour to continue,” she fumed.
Reunion tour clashes
The band’s first attempt at a reunion in 2007 brought up problems before the girls had even picked up a microphone.
As the fivesome got together for a London press conference to announce news of their tour, it was decided they’d all step out matching in head to toe black as a show of togetherness.
As well as looking striking and dramatic the styling would also demonstrate how united they were as grown women, after previously being known for dressing as their separate Spice characters.
But on the day, Mel B could not resist rebelling, adding a shiny, bright red skirt to her outfit in the hope that all eyes would be on her.
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But, as Mel has learned so many times before and since, Never Underestimate The Halliwell – particularly when it comes to attention seeking.
Geri rocked up in a ultra feminine white flowing floral maxi dress – worlds away from the chic black her bandmates has agreed to. She totally stole the show and had to be plonked front and centre in all of all the photographs from the press launch.
Despite the rather awkward start to proceedings, all five Spices – including Victoria – went ahead with the tour – performing in America and the UK before the dates were sensationally cut short in February 2008.
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The band cancelled gigs in Sydney, Beijing, Cape Town and Buenos Aires. At the time the girls blamed “family and personal commitments” for the sudden change of plan.
But it’s thought that even before the shows started the infighting of days past made an ugly appearance.
“I wasn’t in a very good space with my marriage and I didn’t feel I could go on any more, living in this fake world,” Mel B said last year. She even took full responsibility, saying: “It was my fault, so I was determined to get us back together and I’m still determined it will be five at one point.”
When asked in a recent radio interview how long their 2019 tour was expected to be, Geri responded with a barbed jibe at her bandmate.
“Let’s see if Mel B behaves herself and then we’ll see,” she warned. Yikes.
Creative differences reopen old wounds
Over ten years later the Spice Girls were back together once again in 2019 for another reunion tour – this time without Posh.
According to sources, Mel B and Geri began bickering about the creative direction from day one.
Mel wanted to re-market herself as an edgy and raunchy Rita Ora-esque performer, while Geri hoped the get together would have a wholesome, family vibe reflecting how they’ve grown as mothers.
An insider told The Sun: “The gigs will go ahead whatever happens, but those two couldn’t be more divided and both see themselves as the boss. Everyone involved is braced for some epic arguments once they’re back together.”
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While another source close to the group claimed that married mother-of-two Geri was not happy with the costumes Mel is gunning for – deeming them ‘too tarty’ for her tastes.
Geri is reportedly wanting to move on from her Ginger Spice alter ego and has insisted Mel should ‘grow up’ and ‘learn to keep her mouth shut occasionally,” it’s been reported.
Geri, who famously only wears white now, adapted all of her stage costumes – including her infamous Union Jack dress – to fit her new ‘lady of the manor’ aesthetic’.
Lesbian Sex allegations
The awkward start of the 2007 reunion tour pales in comparison to the bombshell Mel B unleashed just weeks before the start of their comeback tour.
Ahead of the opening night in Dublin on May 24, Mel appeared on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories ITV show where she gave the delighted host one hell of an exclusive.
Mel told that she and Geri once enjoyed a night of passion in their Spice Girls heyday – which they ‘giggled’ about afterwards.
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A grinning Mel admitted to a lesbian romp with Ginger Spice – before squirming that Geri and her husband Christian Horner were going to ‘kill her’ now. “She is going to hate me for this because she is all posh in a country house but it wasn’t a ‘thing’, it just happened, we just giggled at it and that was it.
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“We were best friends. It just happened.”
Piers then revealed on Good Morning Britain how after the cameras stopped rolling Mel rushed off to phone her former rival to warn her about what she’d let slip.
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