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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Isobel Lewis

Geri Halliwell recalls learning her father died while studying Hamlet: ‘It woke me up to my own mortality’

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Geri Halliwell has spoken about the emotional impact of her father dying when she was a teenager, saying it “woke me up to my own mortality”.

The singer’s father Laurence died from a heart attack in 1993, just a year before Halliwell joined the Spice Girls.

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