Geri Halliwell-Horner

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Geri Halliwell-Horner is a woman of many guises. She's been Ginger Spice, a hugely successful recording artiste and member of the world's biggest girl band. She's been a UN Goodwill Ambassador who met Nelson Mandela. She's been a heartthrob - who famously kissed Prince Charles when she first met him at The Royal Variety Performance. She is now a writer - her Rosie Frost series of novels for young adults have been bestsellers. In this frank and far-reaching conversation, Gyles finds out more about what makes Geri tick. From her childhood - when she performed to get her father's attention, to the devastating news that her father had died, to the years with the Spice Girls, to her present-day happiness as a wife, mother and writer.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Giles Brandreuth, and welcome to Rosebud, the podcast where I take famous guests right back to the very beginning, to their first memories and experiences.
0:12.6	Are they still the same person looking back? What have they learnt from those formative years? And what's their advice for future generations?
0:46.0	No. years and what's their advice for future generations? ...and what's their advice for future generations? Hello and welcome to another episode of Rosebud.
0:51.1	I've come to the Grovenor House Hotel in Park Lane in London to meet somebody very special.
0:55.9	I think I could fairly describe her as an icon. Well, I can describe her as an icon because she's just, literally just, appeared on a postage stamp for the first time. Yes,
1:01.8	the first, I think, girl band to be featured on postage stamps in the United Kingdom are the
1:07.6	spice girls. And I'm going to be meeting one of them. My favourite, known to some as
1:12.5	Ginger Spice, known to others as Jerry Harrowell, known to me as Jerry Halliwell Horner. I've known
1:18.7	her for a few years, but as a result of our conversation today, I think I'm going to know her
1:23.8	even better. She is, of course, a singer, she's a writer, she's a very intriguing person
1:30.0	with a remarkable story to tell. Welcome to Rosebud and here is Jerry Halliwell Horner. Jerry, I want you to begin by telling me what your very first memory is.
1:55.2	Cast your mind back.
1:57.0	The very first thing you can really remember in your entire life.
2:01.0	Okay, so one instantly comes to mind is that I'm in a pram and it's raining
2:05.9	and there's one of those plastic covers over the top and the raindrops of, you know, just coming down and my mother pushing.
2:14.5	That's what I think I can remember.
2:16.2	And also I was quite, I would say, a curious and
2:20.4	open child. So remember sort of smiling at people from the pram. And who was your mother?
2:28.4	So my mother, she's still alive. She, her name is Anna Marie Hidalgo. She's Spanish. She was born in 1945. She came over here as a nanny.
2:39.2	And she met my father. She was working in Marble, near Marble Arch. And she met my father.
2:45.9	And they only knew each other for seven weeks and they got married. Wow. Yeah. Who was your father? My father, he's not
2:52.1	alive. He was, he was born in 1922. So he was an older father when I was born. Wow, he was
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