Geri Halliwell and Mel B had a ‘fire and ice relationship’ says Spice Girls songwriter after sex revelation
Songwriter Eliot Kennedy got to know the girls well in the 90s when they lived with him
GERI Horner and Mel B had a “fire and ice relationship”, according to a Spice Girls songwriter.
The band briefly lived with Eliot Kennedy in the 1990s before they found fame – and he’s now lifted the lid on their dynamic following Mel B’s revelation about having sex with Geri.
Speaking to the , he said: “They had this fire and ice relationship.
“They had the X factor, that intangible energy.”
Eliot worked on their songs Say You'll be There, Right Back At Ya and Love Thing.
Geri and Mel appeared to fall out last month after Mel claimed she had slept with Geri, 46, while in the 90s girlband during a recording of Piers Morgan's Life Stories.
Mel said: "We were best friends. It just happened. It wasn't a thing. It just happened. We just giggled at it and that was it. It just happens one time and then you talk about it and it does not really happen again. It was just that one time ...
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"Hopefully when Geri gets asked she wont deny it, because it was just a thing. It was not anything major. It was just a fun thing. You asked me a question and I answered it. She is going to hate me for this because she is all posh in her country house and her husband. But its' a fact. She is going to kill me and so is her husband."
Days later, Geri issued a statement denying the liaison saying that she found the claims "very hurtful".
The group reunited for the first time since the bombshell this week as rehearsals got underway.
Emma Bunton shared a video of the pair and the rest of the girls - though perhaps tellingly they were so far apart they were never in the same shot. And in a picture of the rehearsals, Geri is seen turning her back on Mel.
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