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Happy Birthday
sung by Shirley Bassey, liters of champagne and dancing to old hits with her former bandmates.
Geri Horner's party, before her Geri Halliwell, for her fiftieth birthday, which was held last Saturday, November 5, has served as an impromptu meeting (almost completely) for the Spice Girls.
Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton and Melanie C accompanied the well-known as
Ginger Spice
on the dance floor dancing her iconic song
De Ella Say You'll Be There
.
Only Melanie B was missing from the joint photo, who did not attend the party, although the reasons for her absence are unknown.
Horner, who turned 50 on August 6, had planned to celebrate this same party during the month of September, but the death of Elizabeth II changed his plans and decided to postpone the celebration out of respect for the mourning for the death of the monarch.
The singer has always declared herself a great admirer of the queen.
“My thoughts and condolences go out to the royal family for the loss of their mother, grandmother, aunt.
Thanks to Her Majesty for her resolute and unending service.
She is and always will be the epitome of dignity and elegance,” she wrote on her Instagram account on September 8.
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The celebration, which has cost around 400,000 pounds (just under 459,000 euros), according to
The Sun
newspaper , was held in a renovated barn in the extensive Oxfordshire house that she shares with her husband, former driver and boss of the Red team. Formula 1 Bull, Christian Horner, 48 years old.
The house in which they have decided to celebrate the party is one of Geri's favorites and the one that she usually shows more often on her Instagram profile, where she has 1.2 million followers.
The couple doesn't exactly live alone: among others, they have dozens of goats, chickens —her little right eye is called
Ginger,
her nickname Spice— and three donkeys, named
Betsy, Bobby
and
Nelly.
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"A fun night celebrating Geri" and "I love you, Emma Bunton and Melanie C" are some of the emotional messages that Victoria Beckham wrote accompanying the photos she posted on her Instagram profile and in her
stories
, in which she could be seen to the current designer embracing Emma Bunton, in addition to posing with their respective husbands.
Singer Myleene Klass, model and actress Poppy Delevingne, model Penny Lancaster, wife of Rod Stewart, and comedians Leigh Francis and David Walliams were other celebrities among the 120 guests who joined Geri at her birthday party.
In addition to the British designer and Geri's former bandmates in the band that catapulted them to fame in the 1990s, two of the most special people who accompanied her on her birthday were Christian Horner, her husband since 2015, and her daughter Bluebell Madonna, 16 years old, the result of the relationship she had with the screenwriter and filmmaker Sacha Gervasi.
The two could be seen in different photographs with the former members of the Spice Girls.
After dinner, consisting of three courses, Christian Horner took advantage of the celebration to deliver an emotional speech dedicated to his wife and star in a dance with her.
The couple met in 2009, but it was not until February 2014 that they officially started dating.
In October 2013, a few weeks after the birth of Horner's only daughter from his previous marriage, Olivia, the former pilot filed for divorce from businesswoman Beverly Allen.
Geri and Christian have a son together, five-year-old Montague George Hector Horner.
Christian Horner and Geri Horner at the 'premiere' of the James Bond movie 'No Time To Die' at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 2021. Max Mumby/Indigo (Getty Images)
This almost complete meeting of the Spice Girls could be the prelude to their future reunion in 2023, the year in which it is rumored that the five British are planning a joint tour.
In 2021, and for their 25th anniversary, they released a commemorative album entitled
Spice 25
, which included two albums with previously unreleased songs and a renewed version of their greatest hits such as
Wannabe, Last Time Lover or Mamma
.