It seems that Geri Halliwell's lovelife is being Spiced up, along with her pop career.
As well as raking in millions from the Spice Girls reunion, Ginger has gone and bagged a handsome bloke who's not short of a bob or two himself.
Geri, 34, is dating sexy Russian Evgeny Lebedev, who is a regular fixture on the London social circuit and the heir to a billion-pound fortune.
The pair have been on a string of secret dates, but made their first public appearance together at The Serpentine Gallery summer party in London on Wednesday night.
And there was no mistaking that they were a couple. The smitten pair were inseparable all night. They held hands and he repeatedly played with her sexy white dress.
Then when they took to the dancefloor, he grabbed her bum and whispered in her ear: "Are you wearing a thong, darling?" Cheeky!
Our spy reveals: "They looked very much together all night and were whispering in each other's ears. Geri seemed totally besotted with him and kept touching his arm. And it looked like the feeling was very much mutual."
As they left, Geri said she was cold so Evgeny gallantly lent her his jacket. A gentleman, too. Swoon!
Evgeny is a bit of a catch for the unlucky-in-love Geri, who has been single since splitting up with Sacha Gervasi last year, with whom she has a baby daughter, Bluebell.
The 26-year-old Russian, whose dad is the academic and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev, was recently voted the third-most eligible bachelor in Tatler. The posh mag noted, rather bizarrely, that he "entertains in a fabulous blacked-out-flat in Belgravia".
It's thought that Geri met him through Chelsea boss Roman Abramovich and his ex-wife Irina, with whom she is friendly. They have other pals in common, too.
Evgeny is mates with Sir Elton John and the Scissor Sisters after they played a gig to raise money for the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation - a charity in which he is closely involved.
But his spokeswoman wouldn't give anything away, saying: "We don't comment on his private life."
And Geri's people said she couldn't be reached for a comment. But being with him clearly brought a smile to her face at the party.
Talking about the forthcoming Spice Girls reunion, she said: "We are much better friends now... We are older and don't fight as much as we did. We are certainly better together now than before. I love it that we can do this all over again."
So after the reunion tour will Geri be Russian down the aisle?
Source: The Mirror
