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Christian Horner

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imhappytoday98 · 19/02/2024 14:36

Red bull formula one boss
What's the story?
Someone mentioned he is hero Halliwell's husband but could be in trouble at work?

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Geebray · 01/03/2024 19:06

Carpediemmakeitcount · 01/03/2024 18:56

Non story 😴
It all sounds boring.

Lol at the attempt to neg us, media team!

MrsMConstable · 01/03/2024 19:07

🤣

Christian Horner
xSideshowAuntSallyx · 01/03/2024 19:08

Nice to see the Mail Online has made an article from this thread!

Janehasamane · 01/03/2024 19:08

OhhhhhhhhBiscuits · 01/03/2024 19:04

She was allegedly offered £650k to make it all go away and turned it down so I don't think it's a payout she was after.

I think she wanted a secure job that she obviously liked doing. You can see in the messages he started sidelining her and now where she would be at every race she is now stuck in the HQ and factory.

I don’t think pay out either.

i think it’s a woman scorned. She thought she was Geri number 2, he’d do the same again, leave Geri and be with her, and he’s told her he’s happily married.

i think it’s the big fuck you. And yes her position at work was in jeapordy.

dayswithaY · 01/03/2024 19:09

Carpediemmakeitcount · 01/03/2024 18:56

Non story 😴
It all sounds boring.

Yes, you’re right. Let’s all stop now and watch the One Show. We’ve had some fun but it’s gone too far.

As if!

Geebray · 01/03/2024 19:10

Dotjones · 01/03/2024 17:48

Sadly the cache of messages doesn't really prove anything, if this is the best evidence the other party had to offer I think it's more of a case of sour grapes and/or looking for a payout than there having been anything going on.

Ah, here we go, the Horner PR crisis consultants are on the move.

Shamalar · 01/03/2024 19:11

PegasusReturns · 01/03/2024 17:15

You seem to have a different take on the messages. The narrative is that they had an affair but she stopped it. He kept pushing. She keeps shutting him down

@drumbeats she’s not shutting him down - she’s courting his attention and flattery. I’ve dealt with plenty of grim, harassing men who’ve been senior to me in the past. Things I didn’t do:

• tell them I was wearing no underwear
• send them photos of what I was wearing
• talk to them about phone sex
• ask them what I should wear
• ask them if they miss me
• discuss the scenes in 50 shades I enjoyed
• fish for them to say whether they’re happily married or not
• tell him the reason I don’t come to his room is not because I don’t like it.

she’s a side piece who wanted more from him, and was holding off in the hope that he’d give her more.

Exactly this. As much as people want to push the narrative of big wealthy boss sexually harassing his PA, it looks like it was mutual. Indeed, I suspect that’s why he was cleared of any misconduct, because they are as bad as each other.

I suspect he refused to leave Geri for her and so it ended badly. Annoyingly, because of her own conduct, she comes across as a woman scorned rather than someone who was being harassed which will simply add more weight to those claims whenever someone needs to make a similar complaint.

RamblingAroundTheInternet · 01/03/2024 19:12

Ramalangadingdong · 01/03/2024 18:33

Did the PA definitely have an affair with him, or is that speculation?

It doesn’t sound like a full on affair to me from reading the texts. It sounds like he is desperate and horny and she is trying to deflect him but was drawn in on at least one occasion with the reference to making him ‘blast’ and not being able to hold it in so he had to finish himself off. Sounds like she realised they’d gone too far and she didn’t want to carry on but he was constantly harassing her about her clothes etc.

The screenshot where someone else seems to say it’s sexual assault but she says she can’t say that to him is telling. There was possibly more going on which has not be released. She was probably very worried about losing her job and then being blackballed from other jobs as he is obviously a man of power and influence in that industry so could have easily have screwed her with a bad reference which would have been very damaging as that was probably the biggest job on her CV.

Having worked as a PA myself to rich, powerful men (not in that industry) I can understand how she struggled to maintain boundaries when he was behaving as he was. I was sacked once for making it clear I wasn’t interested in providing ‘stress relief’ to my boss (had to turn him away from my hotel room on a work trip) which offended his ego and a whole litany of bullshit about my work was made up to excuse it. So it definitely happens.

She obviously put in a grievance which was not upheld, couldn’t continue working for him after that and just putting in a grievance would have meant she couldn’t whatever the outcome, knew she’d potentially have difficulty getting another job and so if she released this herself, I totally don’t blame her! She should sue for sexual harassment.

She sounded like she was being an excellent PA tbh. The purpose of the role is to help your boss do his job, including personally, she was obviously on call including out of office hours and probably paid well. That shouldn’t have included being her boss’s wank material though! She was even trying to give him advice about talking to someone (assume therapy) from the texts.

She couldn’t have refused to respond to his messages, he was her bloody boss!

Geebray · 01/03/2024 19:12

'Kay so we know the Horner/Halliwell PR team are here. Welcome!

DaBlackCatsAreDaBestCats · 01/03/2024 19:14

Janehasamane · 01/03/2024 19:08

I don’t think pay out either.

i think it’s a woman scorned. She thought she was Geri number 2, he’d do the same again, leave Geri and be with her, and he’s told her he’s happily married.

i think it’s the big fuck you. And yes her position at work was in jeapordy.

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How can he get away with saying he’s happily married?

Kenthighst · 01/03/2024 19:15

xSideshowAuntSallyx · 01/03/2024 19:08

Nice to see the Mail Online has made an article from this thread!

In fairness it's too good not to share😁

BirthdayRainbow · 01/03/2024 19:16

JackanorysStories · 01/03/2024 15:24

It’s VERY clear they’ve had sexual relations. In the earlier messages she is enjoying referencing this and flirting but then for some reason shuts doesn’t want to continue the affair.

I don’t know how old she is but she doesn’t look older than 35 and it’s definitely an abuse of power on his part, but she at some point has clearly been involved.He needs to be admitting to an affair and abusing his position over his PA. It’s fucking textbook stuff, but I’m surprised she’s gone public with it unless she is of the firm belief (and it may be true) that she felt pressured or coerced

The whole thing is grimy.

I also don’t think Geri has covered herself in glory in the past, but for fucks sakes she got three children to think of now. Three children with this man. It’s disgusting. I hope she leaves him and shows her daughters that men cannot treat them this way. (And yes, before anyone says ‘but she didn’t think of his first child when his ex was pregnant’ no she didn’t, but I still feel for their kids, in facts all his kids, it’s not their fault their father has no morals and they have to grow up knowing he’s gross)

She has two kids. One daughter by someone else, one son with Horner and a step daughter by Horner.

dayswithaY · 01/03/2024 19:16

Geebray · 01/03/2024 19:12

'Kay so we know the Horner/Halliwell PR team are here. Welcome!

Hopefully they saw the Glistening Finger chat, if not, we can get them up to speed.

Sunshineandrainbow · 01/03/2024 19:18

Yuck.

I remember the big Woburn wedding as we live nearby.

Very telling his parents didn't attend.
Speaks volumes.

drumbeats · 01/03/2024 19:18

@Janehasamane @Shamalar

I read in another forum that I can now find other scripts that include conversations where she tells him to stop and he says there dudbtvuded to be boundaries so he's nit sure where the boundaries are now.

The bits in those screen shots definitely suggested they were conducting an affair, she got over it and cooled things off and he couldn't accept it and kept pushing. If I can find the forum I'll link it

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 01/03/2024 19:18

She has two kids. One daughter by someone else, one son with Horner and a step daughter by Horner.

According to one poster though as she was conceived via IVF it might not be his and he doesn't refer to himself as dad, despite referring to his 'daughter' on social media. Madness.

Janehasamane · 01/03/2024 19:18

DaBlackCatsAreDaBestCats · 01/03/2024 19:14

How can he get away with saying he’s happily married?

Some people can be happily married , love their partner, but enjoy the excitement of sex on the side. It doesn’t mean anything. I suspect mor4 men than women. But sleeping with someone doesn’t mean in every case you’re unhappily married. He was clearly not for leaving Geri and enjoyed their life together.

I mean I couldn’t do it, but it’s not uncommon.

Janiie · 01/03/2024 19:19

Is he popular in the team does anyone know? Obviously there's rivalry with other teams but I wonder what the technicians, drivers and other senior managers think of him?

drumbeats · 01/03/2024 19:20

@Janehasamane @Shamalar

I'll try that again without the weird typos!

I read in another forum that I can't now find, other screenshots that include conversations where she tells him to stop and he says there didn't used to be any boundaries between them so he's not sure where the boundaries are now. (As she's telling him to back off)

The bits in those screen shots definitely suggested they were conducting an affair, she got over it and cooled things off and he couldn't accept it and kept pushing. If I can find the forum I'll link it

AhBiscuits · 01/03/2024 19:20

Christ. He has got zero chat, lucky he's rich or he wouldn't be pulling anyone.

Kenthighst · 01/03/2024 19:21

Omg just saw the slimey finger willy 🤮
I'm not sure it is a finger, the jizz on it🤮

I don't know how he thought his woeful singing of American Pie was going to woo his PA. Absolutely cringe 😂

Janehasamane · 01/03/2024 19:23

drumbeats · 01/03/2024 19:20

@Janehasamane @Shamalar

I'll try that again without the weird typos!

I read in another forum that I can't now find, other screenshots that include conversations where she tells him to stop and he says there didn't used to be any boundaries between them so he's not sure where the boundaries are now. (As she's telling him to back off)

The bits in those screen shots definitely suggested they were conducting an affair, she got over it and cooled things off and he couldn't accept it and kept pushing. If I can find the forum I'll link it

Yes absolutely, that’s in the files. I read it again. Opened every Image and I do think this absolutely was an affair . On second reading it’s very clear.

chagalla · 01/03/2024 19:26

When I was younger and more foolish I had an affair with a married man at work. Not something I'm proud of but I can't turn the clock back. I'm ashamed of it now.
These messages are exactly the sort of thing we would have been writing had WhatsApp been around at the time. The banality of it shows the intimacy in some ways. Definitely have had an affair.

ChristianHornersGlisteningFinger · 01/03/2024 19:27

I’m a bit annoyed that the Daily Fail article doesn’t really convey the inventiveness of the humour on this thread. It makes us sounds about as clever as Christian Horner. We are worth more than this Ladies! [jabs GlisteningFinger accusingly]

BigWillyLittleTodger · 01/03/2024 19:28

The PA is no victim in this sordid situation. PA ‘has relations’ with boss, tale as old as time, she wanted to be Lady Horner number 2 and when he made it clear he was happily married she didn’t like it hence this debacle.

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