From Geri Horner’s balls-up to Prue Leith’s bake-off fail – how celebs’ online blunders reveal what they’re thinking

WE’VE all sent a message to the wrong person, but when you are a celeb and do it publicly, it is far more humiliating.

The Sun told yesterday how Geri Horner made an embarrassing mistake while wishing Spice Girls pal Mel B a happy 49th birthday.

Posting a throwback picture of the band at the height of their career in the Nineties, she mistakenly captioned the image with a message for her publicist Pippa Beng, writing: “Sent images to Pippa and this wording — asked her to tweak where needed.”

But Geri is by no means the first celeb to make a Twit of herself.

BARBRA STREISAND: Last month, legend Barbra put her foot in it on X/Twitter when she spotted a picture of fellow actress Melissa McCarthy attending a gala with a film director.

She publicly commented: “Give him my regards, did you take Ozempic?”

Melissa quickly deleted the post, making it seem as though she was offended, but then confirmed in a video: “The ­takeaway? Barbra knows I exist, she reached out and she thinks I look good. I win the day.”

ED BALLS: April 28 has become known as “Ed Balls Day” on X, due to a blunder he made in 2011.

The former MP simply tweeted “Ed Balls”, leading people to assume he was trying to search for his own name on Twitter, but accidentally posted it instead.

Ed left the post up, and every year it is reshared. It currently has more than 121,000 re- tweets and 122,000 likes.

PRUE LEITH: In her first year as a judge on The Great British Bake Off in 2017, Prue made a catastrophic error when she announced the winner on Twitter – almost 12 hours before the final had aired.

Eventually realising her error, Prue apologised and explained she was in Bhutan, in south-central Asia.

She said: “I am so sorry for my mistake this morning, I am in a different time zone and mortified by my error.”

SUSAN BOYLE: The year 2012 is when Twitter users learned the importance of using capital letters in hashtags.

As Britain’s Got Talent 2009 runner-up Susan geared up for a party to mark the release of her fourth album, her PR team tweeted: #susanalbumparty.

The badly worded hashtag was an instant viral sensation.

BLAKE LIVELY: In 2020, Blake and husband Ryan Reynolds shared the same picture on Instagram. While the actress was barefoot in Ryan’s snap, Blake appeared to be wearing brown heels in her own version.

Fans quickly realised she had drawn on her shoes.

Blake later joked about the gaffe, posting more snaps with an array of doodled shoes.

TOM HOLLAND: In 2017, Tom took to Instagram Live to unbox the poster for Avengers: Infinity War, after receiving the present from Marvel co-star Mark Ruffalo.

But the Spider-Man actor didn’t realise there was a warning message on the back – facing the camera – that read “confidential, do not share”.

RITA ORA: Rita promised fans in 2014 that she would release new music if she got 100,000 retweets.

Despite having nearly 4million ­followers, the tweet was deleted after getting just 2,000 retweets.

The singer then claimed she’d been hacked.