None of the above applies to Geri Halliwell. I sat a table away from her at Joe Allen's, the restauraunt favoured by actors, on Thursday night. She looked gorgeous- peachy complexion, not a scrap of make-up, hair scraped back casually into a ponytail. Her figure was stunning. Not stick, thin, not running to fat. Just slim, lithe, pretty- a perfectly proportioned size 10 at most.
She was wearing the most to-die-for pink dress i've seen this season. Simple, elegant silk, a hint of cleavage, subtle and feminine without being sickeningly girlie. No jewellery. Open-toed shoes with a tiny kitten-heel. None of your nipple-skimming, crotch-baring "look at me i'm wearing two paper clips" style.
Geri was with an extremely attractive blonde female friend. So attractive, in fact, a lesser woman wouldn't have fancied appearing with her in public. They were chatting away like real friends, not two people faking conversation so they could be gawped at.
Around us celebs came and went. Anita Dobson was three tables down. Neil Pearson three tables up. Lionel Blair- currently playing the Child-catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang- swept straight in from his curtain-call and joined Lorna Luft, sister of Liza Minelli and daughter of Judy Garland, currently packing them in to the Savoy Theatre with Songs My Mother Taught Me.
Through all the table-hopping, Geri behaved like a human, not like an ex-Spice Girl. She ate her dinner, gossiped with her mate and paid not one particle of attention to the maelstrom. She did not trot back and forth to the khazi. She did not make or recieve a single mobile phone call. She and her pal shared the historic chocolate brownie with ice cream and a jug of hot fudge sauce.
I first met Geri in 1996 when Wannabe was in the charts and Victoria Adams was just learning to scowl and shop a lot. Geri was fresh-faced, fiesty and full of cheeky patter. Her phrase "girl power" made it onto T-shirts worldwide. She's equally at ease lunching with Tony Blair or sending up Prince Charles, and her singing's respectably better than Mrs Beckham's.
What she needs now is a man grown-up enough to take her on and stay the course. Chris Evans, Robbie Williams and a string of lesser bods have all failed the Halliwell challenge.
Its time Geri found eternal love and she damn well deserves it. Come on gentleman, show your zig-azig-aaah!"
Source: Daily Star
