No sooner had we picked our jaws up off the floor after hearing that Russell Brandand Geri Halliwell [uuid=0c34c179-5964-4637-a990-a5112dd08b71]Spice Girls star Geri is finding the comedian a bit "too intense".
"Things are already cooling off," a source told the paper. "Russell's way into very intense spiritual readings that are just too much, even for Geri."
And apparently Geri was a bit nonplussed when Russ turned up at her place with a DVD of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads to watch together.
"He is way too intense, full stop," the source continued. "He turned up with Talking Heads... it went straight over Geri's head.
"I don't think she really fancies him. She's just enjoying the attention. It will be yoga, sex and fizz, but it won't last the distance. He's off back to LA soon and she's not planning on going with him."
And other friends of the star are reported as saying that Geri was just looking for something to take her mind off her career worries - after apparently struggling to get a record deal or sell a concept for a reality TV show.
A pal said: "Geri hoped her performance with the [uuid=5d896ecd-cd6d-4737-9362-ac8c1e88d342]Spice Girls at the Olympics[/uuid] would open doors but it hasn't. Russell's taken her mind off it all."