Geri Halliwell

Birthday: August 6, 1972
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Announces that she is leaving the Spice Girls, citing differences with the other band members. Winner of the 1997 MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance Video, "Wannabe". Winner of the 1997 MTV Europe Music Award for Best Group, Spice Girls. Pinched Prince Charles' bum. Friend of singer George Michael, guested in his house for a few months after leaving the 'Spice Girls'. Has two tattoos: One of a panther on the small of her back, and another of a star in between her shoulder blades. Her hero is Margaret Thatcher. Written an auto-biography titled "If Only..." in which she dedicated to her late father. Banned for driving for six weeks and ordered to pay a $580 fine and $50 court costs for driving twice the speed limit in Watford, England. She's half Spanish (mother) and quarter English and Swedish (father). She is the great grand daughter of the 1930s Mayor of Cordoba in Spain. On her mother's side: Grandmother was a prison guard and grandfather was a prisoner. On her father's side: Grandmother was English and had a brief encounter with a Swedish merchant seaman, who turned out to be married and returned shortly after to his wife in Sweden. Has a half brother Paul, a half sister Karen, a brother Max and a sister Natalie, all of whom are older than Geri. Her half sister Karen helped make the infamous Union Jack dress Geri wore to the 1997 Brit Awards. Her dad was 50 when she was born. Mother became a Jehovah's Witness when Geri was very young, which meant Geri didn't get to celebrate birthdays or Christmas. Attended Callowland Infant School and Watford Grammar School for Girls. Auditioned for a part in Tank Girl (1995), where she met future band mate Victoria Beckham (nee Adams). Was a hostess on the Turkish game show "Let's Make A Deal". Among her many pre-stardom odd jobs was a stint as a cage go-go dancer in a Majorca disco, where she danced largely for rent money so she could stay in Majorca. Measurements: 36C-24-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine). In September 1999 Sotheby's auction house in London featured her extravagant stage costumes, music awards, and personal belongings during her previous incarnation as "Ginger Spice". The items were part of a two day celebrity auction with proceeds going to a children's cancer charity. Her famed Union Jack mini-dress she wore at 1997 Brit Awards fetched the most pounds a whopping $69,340 in American dollars, which she hand delivered to the Vegas Hard Rock Hotel. Is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations. Gave birth to her first child, a daughter, Bluebell Madonna Halliwell, on May 14th, 2006 at London's Portland Hospital. The father of the baby is her ex-boyfriend Sacha Gervasi. Announced that she has named her daughter Bluebell Madonna Halliwell.