This is getting Spice-y.
Spice Girl Gerri Halliwell is reportedly friends with the woman her racing boss husband Christian Horner is accused of sending sleazy messages to.
Horner, the high-powered head of the Red Bull F1 team, was cleared Wednesday in a workplace harassment probe after being accused of “coercive behavior.” Saucy texts allegedly sent to an unnamed female colleague subsequently leaked online.
Halliwell — who has been married to Horner since 2015 — is said to be humiliated by the scandal, which has been made worse by the fact that she is purportedly pals with the recipient of the racy messages.
According to an insider, the Spice Girl even vouched for the woman to work with her husband at Red Bull.
“They actually have a mutual friend and Geri liked her,” the source told the Daily Mail on Saturday. “In fact, she would speak positively about her.”
“She heard she was in line for the job and randomly, one of Geri’s old friends from her Spice Girls days knows this woman, so Geri put a word in,” the insider added.
“Geri likes to think she is a girl’s girl in many ways and thought she was doing a good thing back then. You can only imagine how she may regret that now.”
Publicly, at least, Halliwell is standing by her man, even after the suggestive texts leaked online.
On Saturday, the singer was seen smooching Horner after a race in Bahrain.
The couple share a 7-year-old son together.
In the alleged messages, Horner talked about a range of things with the female co-worker, including requesting selfies of her and asking her what she was wearing.
Here's everything we know about Christian Horner's sexting scandal
Christian Horner, the team principal of the Red Bull F1 team, is being accused of “inappropriate, controlling behavior” following leaked allegedly salacious messages between him and a female employee.
Horner, who is married to former Spice Girl Gerri Halliwell, allegedly commented to the female employee that it would be good for her to stretch her legs in response to her stating it would be good for him to do so after a long flight, according to reports.
The leak, which was sent to nearly 200 people in a Google document, included nearly 80 images of screenshots with messages to the woman, including: “I keep thinking about Spanx” and “What’s underneath at the moment?”
Horner also allegedly asked the woman for selfies of her in pajamas, and one message referenced what the Daily Mail described as a “solo sex act.”
The employee reportedly asked Horner to stop and attempted to turn the tables by asking him how he would feel if his wife was doing the same thing with an employee, according to reports.
Red Bull Racing cleared Horner of any violations of misconduct following an internal probe.
“I won’t comment on anonymous speculation, but to reiterate, I have always denied the allegations,” Horner said Thursday in a statement.
“What’s the outfit of choice today,” Horner allegedly texted the colleague, who responded, “Skirt.”
He then wrote, “Which one? Have I seen?” before asking the woman to send him a pic to “remind me.”
In another message, Horner allegedly asked the woman about her flexibility, writing, “might need to be slightly flexible … like you ,” before telling her to “take a selfie” after she said she could get one of her legs behind her head.
“Still in the spanx?” he allegedly asked, adding, “You look very attractive in them.”
When the colleague said they were “just leggings,” Horner allegedly replied, “But it’s what’s in them that counts!”
Horner has denied all wrongdoing.
