One in every of Netflix’s greatest successes of current years has been its Drive to Survive collection, which follows the lives of Method 1’s finest drivers and their respective groups each on and off the monitor.
As a lot as final season belonged to McLaren and in the end Lando Norris, one of many greatest issues that stored F1 followers speaking was the shock sacking of Purple Bull Racing boss Christian Horner, who had been heading the staff since 2005.
The cameras had been current within the businessman’s Oxfordshire house the place he spoke along with his spouse, former Spice Women singer Geri Halliwell-Horner, and she or he was seen getting emotional over his information.
The second befell within the present’s fourth episode, A Bull With out Horns. Christian approached his spouse to easily say: “All… all carried out and dusted.” She rapidly comforted him earlier than asking how he was feeling.
“In fact your rapid response if you get delivered a [expletive] sandwich like that’s, like, [expletive] them,” Christian responded. “I’ve had one thing taken away from me that wasn’t my selection, that was very valuable to me.”
Geri then added: “However you thought it was going to occur. We got here again from that Austria race, and I keep in mind you sat on the mattress one night time and went, ‘One thing actually unhealthy’s gonna occur’.”
© NetflixThe couple had been seen watching a race in a later episode, the place Geri admitted she felt “a bit unhappy watching this”, along with her eyes welling with tears.
Christian was sacked halfway by the 2025 season, though no motive was ever given for the transfer. It did, nonetheless, come after Purple Bull didn’t win the 2024 Constructors Championship and following an investigation over allegations of inappropriate behaviour was made towards him. Christian was cleared within the subsequent investigation.
Geri and Christian’s relationship
Geri and Christian did not begin relationship till 2014, however the pair had met years prior when the singer was a visitor of Bernie Ecclestone on the Monaco Grand Prix in 2009.
“She was a visitor of Bernie Ecclestone’s in Monaco one 12 months and got here down the pit lane,” Christian beforehand stated. “I keep in mind [McLaren boss] Ron Dennis was standing subsequent to me and Eddie Jordan was there as effectively. Anyway, she gave Ron a kiss on the cheek, and she or he gave Eddie a kiss on the cheek. So I assumed, ‘OK, I am on for a kiss on the cheek right here!’ And I went to offer her one and she or he shoved her hand out at me.”
© Alamy Inventory PictureThe couple had been engaged in November 2014, though the announcement was a low-key posting in The Occasions. They stated ‘I do’ on Friday 15 Could 2015 at St Mary’s Church in Bedfordshire in entrance of their household and associates.
Geri’s daughter Bluebell, who was 9 years previous on the time, made the sweetest gesture on the special occasion and walked her mom down the aisle carrying a stupendous blue costume and a surprising floral crown made up of freesias.
© Getty PhotosSpeaking about her huge day with Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, Geri stated: “Individuals speak about their wedding ceremony day and till you get there, you do not actually know what it should be like, it really was the happiest day of my life, it was so wonderful.
“The factor is my mom, she bought divorced so it type of put me off a bit if I am sincere and I hadn’t met anybody that I felt it was proper [with] actually,” stated Geri. “And after I met Christian, I robotically knew, I did, I truly stated to my pal, ‘I feel I’ve met the person I wish to marry’.”
Each Geri and Christian had been already dad and mom after they wed, however the pair have since welcomed son Monty, 9.
