Geri Horner has broken her silence on claims she slept with Spice Girls bandmate Mel B, insisting it is “untrue”.
The singer, real name Melanie Brown, claimed she had enjoyed a romantic rendezvous with Horner during the groups’ heyday.
In an interview with Piers Morgan for his Life Stories series she said the Spice Girls had “all slept in a bed together,” but nodded awkwardly when Morgan asked if it was “like that” with Horner.
Horner, who was known as Ginger Spice, has since hit out at the “hurtful” comments.
In a statement to Standard Online, a representative said: “It has been very disappointing to read about all these rumours again, especially on Mother’s Day of all days.
“Geri loves the Spice Girls: Emma, Melanie, Melanie and Victoria [Beckham]. She would like [the fans] to know that what has been reported recently is simply not true and has been very hurtful to her family.
“Moving forward, Geri can’t wait to see the girls and all the fans on the tour, have an amazing time with everyone, and make some new memories.”
It comes days after Brown claimed she had a “long conversation” with Horner following the shock admission and accused the press for taking it “onto a whole other level”.
Speaking on Australian radio show 2Day 104.1 last week, she said: “I was on the phone with Geri. I text her and said I admitted on Piers that we had a little thing so don’t worry about it.
“It was all tongue in cheek and I didn’t go into detail and it was pre your husband and pre your babies and mine. We had a long conversation. She texted me the night of and then we spoke at length today.”
Morgan responded to the headlines after he joked he “hadn’t ruined” the Spice Girls tour.
However his Good Morning Britain co-host Susanna Reid joked that the “current tour” may be going ahead but “the question was over whether they would extend it”.
