Said to be the “driving force” behind the phenomenally successful Spice Girls, Geri Halliwell, as Ginger Spice, was on top of the glam pop scene in 1998 when she turned her back on fame and fortune for…more fame and fortune. It all started in unglamorous Watford, England, when Geraldine Estelle Halliwell, born in 1972 (sceptical industry journalists have moved the date back as far as 1962) to a Spanish mother and Swedish/English father, shed her parents’ Jehovah’s Witness values and began “jumping up on the [school] desks and singing.” Classmates remember that the gregarious teen “only wanted to have a laugh,” and that she was “really nice....
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