These days Spice Girl Geri Horner — born and bred in Watford, Hertfordshire — has pretty well everything she really, really wants, living in a 15th-century Cotswolds manor house, where this weekend she will host a British Grand Prix party.
But, I can disclose, she spectacularly fails to make the grade on the track — according to her husband, Christian Horner, boss of the Aston Martin Red Bull racing team. ‘Geri is the worst driver,’ says Horner.
‘She’s in a total world of her own and thinks everybody is doing everything wrong.’
Horner, 45, who married the Ginger Spice singer in 2015, accompanied her to Wimbledon last week, where she engaged with the action on court in characteristically uninhibited manner, exuberantly getting out of her seat, arms outstretched.
These days Spice Girl Geri Horner — born and bred in Watford, Hertfordshire — has pretty well everything she really, really wants
Her trouble behind the wheel, according to her husband, is caused not by any lack of co-ordination, but by a degree of disengagement from what’s in front of her. ‘When she concentrates, she drives well,’ explains Horner, aware that his forthright assessment may sound ungallant.
‘The problem is the amount of time she spends concentrating.’ Horner, pictured with Geri, 46, at last year’s Bahrain Grand Prix, is often spoken of as a future Formula 1 supremo. His driving career saw him compete in Formula 2 and Formula 3000 before deciding that he wasn’t good enough to progress to the sport’s top tier.
Geri, a nightclub dancer in Majorca and then a glamour model before joining the Spice Girls, treated Horner to a Willys Jeep three years ago — so Horner stylishly reciprocated.
‘I tracked down and bought back the red MGB Roadster she spent her first pay cheque on as a Spice Girl,’ he explains.
Model Georgia May Jagger has moved in with her boyfriend in Brooklyn
Model Georgia May Jagger has not only quit Britain for Brooklyn to be closer to her boyfriend, as I revealed in March, but the couple are now living together.
Georgia, the 27-year-old daughter of Sir Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, says she’s ‘really happy’ to have moved in with Louis Levy, the Parisian-born restaurateur, above, who part owns the popular Mimi eatery in Greenwich Village.
‘We’ve been doing long-distance for some time now, so I’m really happy that I see him more,’ she says.
Georgia, who owns three dogs, admits she has had to make adjustments. ‘I used to be like an old lady and go to bed really early.
‘But because my boyfriend works nights, the dogs and I are up until two in the morning pretty much every night.’
ITV News political editor Robert Peston says he is often a victim of mistaken identity.
‘Bizarrely, I’m constantly mistaken for that gorgeous Scottish actor whose name I’ve forgotten who played Doctor Who,’ he tells me, referring to David Tennant.
‘I’m very flattered. And, this still does occasionally happen, people come up to me in the street and they say: “Louis Theroux!” I don’t think I look anything like him at all.’
Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry is shortly to return to the U.S. to make the next episode of his new Channel 4 documentary series Culture Wars about Trump’s America.
The cross-dressing ceramicist, 59, reveals he will be leaving his glad rags behind as he embarks on his new adventure.
‘I don’t want to alienate anyone,’ he tells me. Besides travelling as ‘Claire’, his female alter ego (left), he declares is too much hassle.
‘You wouldn’t believe the packing if you have to dress up,’ he says.
Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry is shortly to return to the U.S. to make the next episode of his new Channel 4 documentary series Culture Wars about Trump’s America
It was always an unlikely collaboration. Now romcom king Richard Curtis reveals it wasn’t all plain sailing with Danny Boyle on their new film, Yesterday.
‘It is complicated sometimes to be on set with another director because I will have a feeling of how things should be,’ explains Curtis, the Yesterday scriptwriter.
‘It’s hilarious, because the director’s got to be allowed to do three takes before you jump in, so for me, the most terrifying words in the English language are “Moving on”.
‘Sometimes they’re just completely happy with the first three. I’m on a fishing line, being tugged in, and there’s that awful moment when I have to leap in and say: “Actually, could we do this?”
‘But Danny’s a very amenable and friendly guy. Once in a while he’d say no, but on the whole it went very well.’
Poldark star Jack Farthing kept a George Warleggan costume from the BBC1 drama that begins on Sunday
Poldark star Jack Farthing has a special memento after appearing as villainous George Warleggan (right) in the final series of the BBC1 drama that begins this Sunday — one of his character’s outfits.
‘I have a George Warleggan costume already hanging in my wardrobe at home,’ he says. ‘A jacket, britches and waistcoat that were all made for me — I spent the whole series in them and I just love them.
‘It is pure nostalgia, although maybe one day I’ll wear it for a fancy dress party. I will miss playing him.’
The Queen is celebrating a rare equine success. A Highland pony, Balmoral Harmony, has won a coveted prize at the Scottish Game Fair at Scone Palace in Perthshire.
It took the annual Fred Taylor Memorial Trophy for working hill ponies, sponsored by London gunmaker John Rigby & Co.
And the Balmoral estate will receive one of Rigby’s Highland Stalker rifles, making the prize worth around £12,000.
It’s the first time that Balmoral has won in the event’s seven-year history.