A Spice Girl could be trackside at Melbourne’s GP, as Kalifatidises form as Aussie Kardashians

A huge celebrity is believed to be winging her way to Melbourne, to support her racing boss hubby at the Grand Prix.

Martha and Mary Kalifatidis could be Australia’s answer to the Kardashians. Picture: John Appleyard

After Martha starred on Married At First Sight and Celebrity Apprentice and became an influencing sensation and her mum Mary won fans on Big Brother, could the Kalifatidis family become Australia’s answer to the Kardashians?

“I don’t know if Australia is ready for it but who knows, I mean, it would be fun,” Mary Kalifatidis said at yesterday’s Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park of a mother/daughter reality series.

“Is it out of the question … anything can happen. If we found the right network, there we go.”

Interestingly, Mary was a guest in the Network 10 Pit Lane suite.

She was briefly joined later in the day by her fashionplate daughter Martha and her fiance Michael Brunelli who were guests at L’Oreal’s Pit Lane enclosure.

The pair’s arrival created a buzz in the suite – you can’t help but suspect there were a few MAFS fans among the guests.

Will Geri add spice to Grand Prix?

Could a Spice Girl be winging her way to Melbourne for today’s Formula 1 Grand Prix?

The hottest rumour at Albert Park on Saturday was that Geri Horner, the artist formerly known as Ginger Spice, was heading to Australia and would join her husband, Red Bull Racing boss Christian Horner, at the track for the big race.

Christian and Geri Horner. Picture: Getty Images

The rumour seemed to gain traction after reports surfaced Geri would not be joining her fellow Spice Girls at the wedding of Victoria Beckham’s son Brooklyn to heiress Nicola Peltz in Florida this weekend.

Her absence was put down to her Australian travel commitments.

While her husband was easy to spot the Red Bull garage at Albert Park yesterday, there was no sign of his glamorous wife.

The Grand Prix brings motorsport fans from all disciplines and categories together.

The five-time 500cc motorcycle world champion Mick Doohan was a fixture at the luxe Mercedes Lounge at the GP this week.

Doohan, a long-time supporter of the event, even had one of his cars on show at the corporate enclosure – a striking orange Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series which caught the eye of Mercedes F1 driver George Russell.

The car is worth a look; being just one of 28 in Australia. It comes with a $1 million price tag.

Pricey’s new flame gushes over ‘big softie’

Commonsense crusader Steve Price has been described as a “big softie” by his new partner, radio executive, Sacha French.

Price, who was a guest at Network 10’s Pit lane Suite at the Australian Grand Prix yesterday with radio executive French, said their relationship worked because French disagreed with him regularly.

Sacha French and Steve Price at the Network 10 pit lane suite. Picture: Channel 10

Alan Jones and Angela Bishop at the Grand Prix. Picture: Channel 10

“I have survived now 11 years on The Project saying what I actually believe and when I did that celebrity show in the jungle it was just about being yourself, you can’t put on an act, you have to be real, if you try to pretend you are something you are not and say things you don’t really believe you will get found out immediately,” Price said.

“The thing I love about Sacha and I is we have honest conversations and she disagrees with me a lot about stuff.

French said she owed her dear friend and radio colleague Dave Hughes thanks for his excellent matchmaking skills.

“He went into Steve’s studio and said ‘What about asking Sacha out?’, he sent Steve my number and said ‘ask her’,” she said.

“Dave Hughes clearly was the matchmaker in this, we have to give him credit,” Price added.

Meanwhile, Alan Jones, who won the F1 World Championship in 1980, was a venerated guest at the 10 compound.

Jones, 75, said he was delighted to be back at what he believed was the best Grand Prix in the world.

“I am a bit pissed off,” he joked.

“They (the Australian GP organisers) were going to have a celebration of the 40th anniversary of my world championship the day they had to cancel it (the GP in 2020) because of the pandemic.

“So I missed out on all of that, I am a bit dirty.”

Jones is the last Australian to be crowned the F1 World Champion