May 24, 2006 • 1 min read

Geri Halliwell names daughter Bluebell

Geri Halliwell has named her new daughter Bluebell Madonna, telling Hello! magazine the flower inspired the name and that the middle name is a nod to Madonna.

Geri Halliwell, who as previously reported, gave birth to her new baby a week or two ago, has apparently named her daughter Bluebell Madonna. The singer told Hello! magazine that she was inspired to do so by seeing the flowers during her pregnancy, adding "what really clinched it for me was my mother telling me that the bluebell is increasingly rare - so it's a precious flower, which seems just right for my daughter."

On the middle name she said: "As she came out of my tummy, Bluebell had both arms flung wide in the air as if announcing to the world, 'Hi! I'm here!' She was screaming her head off, as though she was shouting, 'Hello, Wembley!' No one else has that name, apart from the Virgin Madonna and the singer, whom I love."

You may view this as another incidence of a celebrity calling their child by a very stupid name - lots of other people seem to (well, the gossip-bloggers). But nobody would care if she were named Rose, would they? And besides which, could anything, ever, be as bad as 'Apple'?

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