'You are a Spice boy!' Rylan gets tips from Geri Halliwell ahead of his Spice Girls medley
When Geri paid him a surprise visit during rehearsals, he spluttered: “Oh my God. I can’t breathe. I ain’t lying to you”
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Geri Halliwell has been giving X Factor contestant Rylan Clark plenty of advice as he prepares to perform a medley of the Spice Girls’ hits on the show.
When Geri paid him a surprise visit during rehearsals, he spluttered: “Oh my God. I can’t breathe. I ain’t lying to you.”
Once he’d regained his composure, he told her: “This week’s best of British and what more can I do than the Spice Girls?”
And he gushed: “When you did the Olympic’s I was round my mate’s house and they were all dressed up as athletes and I was dressed up as you!”
Touched, Geri told him: “You are a Spice Boy.”
After he performed she told him to “rehearse, rehearse, rehearse” so that he didn’t have to think about the dance moves.
And – just like Robbie Williams – Geri admitted she was a Rylan fan.
“I think you’ve got star quality,” she told him. “You deserve to be here.”
Looking thrilled Rylan, announced: I think you’ve actually made my life coming down here. Girl power!”