When is Geri’s 1990s: My Drive To Freedom on BBC2 tonight and what’s the documentary by Spice Girls star Geri Horner about?
This will be Ginger Spice’s first major TV presenting role
IT WAS the decade that saw the height of Britpop as bands such as Oasis, Blur and Pulp were topping the charts.
But it was also the era that saw the rise of the world’s biggest girl group, The Spice Girls, here and across the Pond.
One fifth of the band, Geri Horner, is set to look back on Nineties and the years that shot her to fame and fortune.
But what is Geri’s 1990s: My Drive To Freedom all about? Here’s what we know.
What is Geri’s 1990s: My Drive To Freedom about?
The former Spice Girl, who was known as Ginger Spice, has landed her very first major TV presenting role for the BBC.
The 44-year-old will front a documentary series called Geri’s 1990s: My Drive To Freedom, which will air soon on BBC Two.
During the series, she will look back on the decade that propelled her to fame as well as looking at the era that created Britpop.
She will interview big names from the decade as well as her friends as she reflects “on her own incredible journey" and as the BBC said, it will tell the story of Horner “turning 18 as a working class girl in Watford at the dawn of the decade through to international fame and fortune with the Spice Girls”.
An air date has yet to be released.
How did Geri get involved?
With rumours abound of a Spice Girls reunion, it’s fitting that one fifth of the band, whose debut single is 21 years old this year, should be fronting this rather apt series.
Jan Younghusband, the BBC's head of music TV commissioning, said: "We are thrilled that Geri has agreed to share her first-hand insights as a leading woman in music, and how the influences of her life have shaped her as a performer."
Geri added, in a statement: “Personally, it was a journey of self-discovery, reflecting on some amazing things I am incredibly grateful to have experienced. I think the 90s was a very optimistic decade that proved that regardless of who you are and where you come from, you can evolve and change and dreams can come true."
Who does she talk about?
Geri will talk about her close friend George Michael who passed away on Christmas Day last year.
Speaking to Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby on This Morning, she fought back tears as she opened up about the huge influence he had on her life.
Holly said: “The beginning of the year was tinged with sadness when you lost your very very good friend.”
Geri smiled: “I talk about him in the documentary, I’m going to cry thinking about it.”
As the tears came – which she partially blamed on “being hormonal”, she explained: “I absolutely loved him.
“When I left the Spice Girls he took me under his wing and he was such a lovely person.”
Geri also gave more info about her new documentary, saying: “I watched it and I thought maybe the outside has changed, a few more wrinkles and a different accent, but it’s still the same old blah blah blah, you don’t really change.
“Sometimes you have to look back to go forwards.”
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