That one time Ginger Spice groped King Charles
In 1997, Charles, who was the Prince of Wales at the time, met the Spice Girls at a gala for the Prince’s Trust. Geri Halliwell horrified everyone when she infamously flirted with him, kissed him, and then grabbed his rear end! Halliwell told Rolling Stone that she pinched everyone’s bottom, and went on to describe his posterior as a “waterbed.” Today, there’s something called consent, and nowadays Halliwell backtracks, saying that she patted it instead of pinching it.
The affair Baby Spice had with Simon Fuller
Before helming “American Idol” with another famous Simon, Simon Fuller engineered the Spice Girls and their act. However, they fired him in 1997. It was all Geri Halliwell’s idea, and it was a result of finding out that Fuller was having an affair with Baby Spice, aka Emma Bunton. Many sources saw them kissing or having private moments, and Halliwell was upset that Bunton was getting preferential treatment. At times, Bunton was just a teen and Fuller was in his mid-thirties. Later on, Melanie C said that Fuller was trying to pit bandmates against each other and cause drama.
The Spice Girls’ financial backer bullied & body-shamed Mel C
As with any girl band, there was pressure to conform to unattainable beauty ideals. Mel C admitted that she was bullied by the band’s financial backer which caused her to develop an eating disorder at just 19 years old. He made offensive comments about the size of her thighs in front of the band, and at a time in the 90s when mental health awareness was pretty much non-existent.
