Geri Halliwell Gets Slammed for ‘Patronising’ Malala Yousafzai Interview

Oh Geri, we love you, we really do – but let’s leave the hard-hitting interviews to Jeremy Paxman, shall we?

The former Spice Girl was filling in on last night’s edition of The One Show, where the special guest for the evening was none other than Malala Yousafzai.

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You know, the inspirational teenager from Afghanistan who got shot in the head because she spoke out in favour of girls going to school?

Basically, not the sort of person who, when they tell you about their suffering at the hands of the Taliban, you sit in front of and go: “Wow that’s really cool!”

We spent most of the show screaming into our cushions and begging for it to stop – particularly after Malala spoke of how she decided to “raise my voice and be the change I wanted to see in my society”, which was greeted by the standard Haliwell/Horner response of:

“Good for you!”

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Careful guys, Geri could be in with a shot for the Pulitzer if she keeps this up.

Other highlights from the interview of the century included such gems as:

“Wow sounds like you’ve got a great father. I met him earlier and I think he’s very cool.

"I asked him actually what inspired him to be such a modern thinker and he said it came from his heart. I was like, “Wow that’s really cool!’

‘Really, Geri?’ Copyright: [BBC]

We bet Nobel Prize-winning activist Malala was really keen to hear Geri’s musings on what a 'cool dad’ Mr. Yousafzai is.

Not exactly Frost/Nixon, is it?

Anyway, Twitter was predictably irate about the whole thing:

Shall we just stick to GoggleBox and Girl Power from now on, eh Geri?