Ginger failed in bid to pull tragic George

SPICE Girl Geri Horner has revealed how she once tried to chat-up late pop star George Michael.

Geri, 44, confessed to having a huge crush on the tragic Wham! frontman, who passed away on Christmas Day last year.

Geri ( above), known as Ginger Spice at the height of her fame, attempted to woo the star when she first met him at the Capital Music Awards.

She explained: “I was drawn to him. Also I really fancied him. I was thinking how I could lose the rest of the Spice Girls as I wanted to speak to him by myself.

“Eventually, I managed to shake them off and I bounded over. I was laying it on thick, doing the flirty eyes, but he just wasn’t responding to it at all.

“We exchanged numbers anyway and I assumed he’s ring me for a flirt. But when he did call, he dropped in the phrase ‘my boyfriend’, and my jaw just dropped. I was so shocked.”