It was all smiles on Saturday for the couple at the center of the news.
Amid all of the turmoil this week involving alleged sexually suggestive messages to a female employee, Red Bull Racing principal Christian Horner and wife Geri Halliwell shared a tender embrace following the start of the Formula 1 season at the Bahrain Grand Prix.
After Horner’s star driver, Max Verstappen, cruised to an easy victory, the Red Bull principal and the former Spice Girls member were seen embracing each other.
The two hugged following the victory and were holding hands and smiling down from the track at Bahrain International Circuit.
This all comes after Horner was cleared this week in a workplace misconduct scandal.
But he found himself in controversy soon after a tranche of alleged messages that purported to show him messaging a female team employee was leaked to nearly 200 people, including journalists.
The alleged messages included comments to the employee about Spanx and spreading her legs open.
Horner, on Thursday, denied the allegations against him.
After Saturday’s race, he spoke to Sky Sports, saying the team is “united” off the race track.
“Yes absolutely. We are a very strong team,” he told the outlet. “We have got tremendous support, tremendous partners and great shareholders behind us as well.
“You don’t achieve this kind of result by not being united.”
“The perfect start and a very dominant race,” he added. “I have to say a big thank you to all the men and women back at Milton Keynes who have worked so hard over the winter.”
Horner, who kissed and held hands with Halliwell before the F1 race, added that he plans to be at next Saturday’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
“Yes, absolutely,” he said, per Sky Sports. “I wouldn’t be here otherwise.”
This comes after Mohammed Ben Sulayem, the president of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile that governs F1, said the allegations and turmoil have hurt racing.
“It’s damaging the sport,” he told The Financial Times. “This is damaging on a human level.”