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After Geri Halliwell (aka Ginger Spice) quit the Spice Girls in 1998, George Michael provided her with a place to stay after the birth of her first child and became her mentor/close friend. She later named her son after George, who died in December 2016 while she was pregnant.
by /u/waitingforthesun92 | 97 comments | 2026-06-16T02:35:08+00:00 Central
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| /u/BackgroundCold5307 lots of great stories about George. Amazing human being |
| /u/waitingforthesun92 Yup. I thought I've heard every good-faith story about George by now (and there's a lot!). Happened to come across this one today and needless to say, I'm delighted but unsurprised. This man was an angel who left us too early. |
| /u/BackgroundCold5307 True, couldn't agree more. |
| /u/Popular-Brilliant349 Because you gotta have faith! |
| /u/Zebidee Faith, a faith, a faith. |
| /u/BigFanOfNachoLibre This sub doesn't allow gifs so pretend this comment is that one F4 gif |
| /u/TufnelAndI He was kind of a Cowboy too. |
| /u/sasshley_ He deserved so much better than how he was treated. So many stories about him just make me so sad. |
| /u/Khetoo I think if you have a brain, if you were around how British media treated Diana and then 25 years later Meghan, it's easy to pretty much dismiss anything related to Britain and celebrities. They're pretty much dredging the fucking Thames and using magic to make golems of all the rot and filth down there to write articles about people. |
| /u/runnerofshadows All while ignoring the real monsters like Saville until they're dead. |
| /u/sunnydarkgreen now in my 50s, if rich mens media tells me to hate someone i assume they're doing something right. |
| /u/Comfortable_Style_51 I knew he was a monster, but recently the podcast Behind The Bastards did a four part series ob him and it's so much worse than any article I ever read about him. The amount of outright complicity that took place in various organizations in the UK is staggering. It doesn't surprise me one iota that Prince Andrew is in such hot water, I'm sure more people around him are just as guilty. |
| /u/Academic_Dig_1567 Problem is rumors were circulating about saville in the '80s, but he was protected, especially after the knighthood. |
| /u/Illustrious-Milk6518 They were circulating around him as early as the 70's |
| /u/sharktoucher Those episodes were so difficult to get through, ive never felt so angry and at the same time completely despondent. |
| /u/echoshaunt i think they tried to make a bones spin off based on dredging the Thames, and found a british celeb/royalty or something |
| /u/NashKetchum777 Idk if Meghan should be in the same convo as them but sure. |
| /u/JimiJab Same can be said about Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) |
| /u/OverJohn I've never been a huge GM fan, though I appreciate he certainly was talented. However, I know someone who knew George Michael very well for many years and from what they have told me he was genuinely and without exception extremely nice. |
| /u/Lazykatlady He really is, and Ginger spice is my favorite spice girl too. |
| /u/ShyCrystal69 The only thing wrong with her is her taste in men |
| /u/Civil_Tea_3250 Can't blame her though. She's been told she's not good enough and she needs to be attractive to every single man 24/7. It's crazy more big stars aren't completely messed up, or maybe that's an additional pressure they need to deal with because the public would be nasty to them regardless. |
| /u/paone00022 Aside from Posh everyone had had a bad time picking men right. The industry they're working in at that time made it harder |
| /u/Excusemytootie Posh married a serial cheater, not ideal. |
| /u/Civil_Tea_3250 Well, it seemed that way maybe, until her son came out with that story about her basically trying to make love to him in front of people. I always thought David seemed realish and helped make her more palatable. |
| /u/mamyers992 Who is the "him" referring to in your sentence? |
| /u/elderlybrain Yeah for years i thought he was this super lame generic 80s singer, then after his death turns out to have been one of the biggest nice guys in the celebrity world. Also careless whisper still slaps |
| /u/carakangaran Just him singing "Somebody to love" during the tribute concert was enough to convince young me that he was a great singer. |
| /u/twentytwo_a Couldn't agree more. I don't think he ever got the full credit he deserved as a vocalist, songwriter, or musician. |
| /u/Tasty_Film Underrated human being |
| /u/Rosetti Snappy snaps might disagree lol. |
| /u/Dull_Quit3027 I often think about helping people, but I do not have the resources(both mental and physical), and that makes me feel really bad about myself, which diminishes the mental recourses available to me, isn't being human fun 😛 |
| /u/TimmehJ George was a brilliant human by all accounts |
| /u/mdavis360 I read that in his later years he would watch singing competition reality shows or something like that and if a contestants life story moved him, he would anonymously donate to them to help them out. |
| /u/TonyzTone So you could say he was a sort of father figure to them and helped them keep faith after a hard day. They were probably waiting for that day where they could heal the pain, set their soul free and yell "freedom" once and for all. |
| /u/nick1978 More updoots needed here. Made me smile and giggle. |
| /u/jammymarmitejar He thought how can I help you? Please let me try to, I can heal the pain that you're feeling inside. |
| /u/Ritaredditonce Unfortunately his past boyfriends were leeches who took advantage of his generosity. |
| /u/Bostonterrierpug I love the video of both young George and Morrissey talking about Joy Division. Of course Morrissey is a complete pompous ass while George is one smart and kind guy. |
| /u/ggg730 I have really never heard anyone say anything nice about Morrissey besides his music. |
| /u/AEnema18 Heaven knows he's miserable now |
| /u/GettingTherapissed The strangest thing about this is that his music is fucking terrible, too. |
| /u/TheDebonairQuokka He was one of the good ones. So many people he helped never knew it was from him. |
| /u/Cpt-Redbags And on the flipside you have "influencers" buying groceries or giving a homeless man a makeover while putting a camera in their face for subs. Most things on social media are degenerate but exploiting the less fortunate for likes and subscribes because you gave someone $100 is some twisted stuff. If you're a good person you don't need to prove that to anyone. |
| /u/Ithikari Honestly, buying homeless people food for likes and shit, while I am not going to view those people as morally good and doing it because they are good people because they ain't, you gotta sometimes take the good with the bad. Be glad a shit person at least is helping feed them, even if its only for a day or a week. |
| /u/Sugarbombs This is my thought too, it's exploitative and the motivation is corrupt but I bet that homeless person is very happy with $100 they otherwise wouldn't have. Ideally we all help people who need it out of pure empathy and desire to create a better world but while we wait for that utopia sometimes this is the best we get |
| /u/Gay_Asian_Boy Why did Geri Halliwell need anyone to provide her a place to stay? She's one of the Spice Girls and her first album did quite well in the UK. |
| /u/houseofprimetofu Paparazzi in the UK is atrocious. He may have had a very safe and secure place away from the paps. And, friends helping friends is a thing. |
| /u/blankedboy Robbie Williams tells a story about having to carry her out of his flat in a bag over his shoulder because there were so many paparazzi outside 24/7 trying to get a picture of them together. |
| /u/Laiko_Kairen Daniel Radcliffe wore the same clothes home every day so the paparazzi couldn't get new looking pics of him to sell |
| /u/GodOfDarkLaughter Guarantee if that happened today there'd be plenty of social media accounts counting the days hoping it'd get as high as possible with him wearing the same thing and they'd want pictures of him in the outfit every day. People are sick. |
| /u/Iusedthistocomment People are bored, and some people are too hung up on the bored people's record taking of reality. |
| /u/nicknoxx Princess Di did the same a generation earlier. |
| /u/Uuuurrrrgggghhhh Yessss the gym bag!!! People were going past in double decker buses with big cameras just bombarding his house trying to get any photo of her they could. Wild. |
| /u/Skittleschild02 She was being hunted down by paparazzi. They're looking exclusives about her departure. Princess Diana's death had spooked a lot of celebrities. |
| /u/alvehyanna A lot of boy/girl groups back then had shit contracts and made almost nothing. |
| /u/enadiz_reccos A lot of groups not named the Spice Girls Saying Geri Halliwell couldn't afford a place to live in 1998 is wild |
| /u/Inside-Example-7010 maybe she had some sort of issues with being alone and being with george gave her the security and companionship of living with a guy without the need to worry about it being more. |
| /u/enadiz_reccos Oh yeah, it had to be a companionship/support thing I just laughed seeing someone say Geri couldn't afford to live on her own |
| /u/deten This is how we fanfic our way into "freeing Brittany". |
| /u/thehideousheart maybe makes a load of stuff up? |
| /u/Inside-Example-7010 maybe it's maybelline. |
| /u/IdiotAbroad77 Lol thanks for reminding me of this |
| /u/Deaftoned Do you not know the definition of "maybe"? |
| /u/cocoagiant A lot of groups not named the Spice Girls You would think the same for The Beatles, Backstreet Boys and NSync but members from all have talked about how little money they actually were receiving. |
| /u/Unfair_Web_8275 The Beatles had at least two songs about getting ripped off. |
| /u/cocoagiant Yeah, that Jude clearly was a bad guy. |
| /u/Unfair_Web_8275 He kept telling them to take sad songs and make them better, which is what led to John to quitting. |
| /u/Wotmate01 Maybe he needed help? |
| /u/DeniLox Yeah. Managers such as Lou Pearlman made themselves a member of the group when it came to getting paid so that they'd get paid twice (as a manager and as a member of the group). |
| /u/ggg730 Brother you don't know the half of how predatory the music industry is. |
| /u/gigatension Started out in debt. |
| /u/CharlesDickensABox Sometimes staying with friends in a difficult time isn't about the money. |
| /u/lizzzard_sneeek She didn't have a permanent house when her daughter was born, I'm assuming she had been bouncing around rented places by herself. She's said that she was struggling a lot postpartum as a single mom so George Michael stepped in and offered for her to stay at his house for the weekend for some emotional support and a safe environment. She ended up staying for 3 months while she settled into being a new mother and was able to buy a house in London to raise her daughter close to her family and other friends. |
| /u/brownmouthwash Maybe he was there for her emotionally while she was pregnant on her own. |
| /u/Pledgeofmalfeasance It was seriously fucking bad how the paps haunted her back then. Girl couldn't take two steps without being blamed for the fall of society. |
| /u/MacGibber George Michael was a silent hero to many people, he is certainly and dearly missed. |
| /u/SwaMaeg Almost right. She named her baby after the George Michael on Arrested Development. |
| /u/jaskmackey Michael: Your Uncle GOB seems to think that he saw you down at the docks today. Was that you? George Michael: No. No. Maybe it was the other George Michael - You know, the singer-songwriter. Michael: Yeah, that makes sense. |
| /u/gorginhanson we don't talk about season 4 |
| /u/Urban_Heretic Yes. That baby grew up to be Micheal Cera. |
| /u/fatbob42 Oh - the guy who made that hand cream? |
| /u/thexavikon Let me cream hydrate you |
| /u/ThickDoughnut4267 Maybe she has a daughter, too |
| /u/SwaMaeg Yes, She has a daughter Maybe |
| /u/ThickDoughnut4267 Dang you're right, your sentence is syntactically superior to mine 🎩 |
| /u/Clubsandiches Either way, he could be his father figure. |
| /u/StoneGoldX Not the singer/songwriter? |
| /u/An_Absolute-Zero I'm assuming they were from the same neck of the woods. George went to my secondary school and Geris mum worked at a shopping center in the closet big town. |
| /u/Several_Goat5210 And then she married Christian horner :/ |
| /u/Uuuurrrrgggghhhh How dare he, by the way, do that to Geri. GINGER SPICE IS HIS WIFE and he behaves like that. What a fingertip |
| /u/Hedge55 This is the comment I was looking for 😂 |
| /u/Velifax Context - George Michael was a very famous singer in Britain in the 90s and was gay. |
| /u/SwaMaeg Fuck. In my opinion. LD. |
| /u/DimensionFrequent29 The fact that this needs context is depressing my 50 year old ass |
| /u/FrostiePi Try being just under 40 and it needing context.. I suddenly feel very old. |
| /u/justmememe55 Fuck, I'm over long distance |