Right. George Michael. So who is he? He once was an 80's heart-throb with bleeched hair and dimples who used to shag anything good looking that came along, and now - 20 years later - he's lost the blonde look and is basically still shags anything good looking that comes along. I quote (free from memory):
"I wanted to keep my sexuality private. So for a while it was between me and about 300 cute guys."
I think 'icky' is the word I'm looking for here. To my personal liking, that's a zero too much... Note that this excludes the half a zillion chicks he bonked in the 80's... Imagine if, say, Jennifer Aniston had said the same. She'd been a 'slut' and then some - so what does that make George...? Hum...
So, ex-Goldy Locks had a smashing career in the
festive 80's withwomen, booze, concerts (yeah, way back when he still did them...) and pants so tight that they looked like they had been painted on him.
He went on to the Faith area with more women, more booze
, more concerts and equally tight pants - and some arse-shaking videos. Add Ray Ban sunglasses covering half of his face, BSA leather jackets, 6 o'clock shadow and cowboy boots to that image.
He figured it wasn't really working out, so he did one final tour
and then called it a day. He didn't do anything for years, until he returned as a clone of Satan with pointy (tweezed, probably!) goatee, short hair, dark glasses - dark, basically.
It didn't take him more than a year after that to get
arrested for waving his ding-dong at a cop in a public toilet, admit he was gay and that he was living with a man. He said he had never denied it (apart from that time on 60 minutes in 1988 when he said "I've got nothing to hide, I'm not gay", of course).
What I find interesting is that the year before he said "I smoked
25 cannabis joints, grieving over the man I loved" and nobody even thought about the possibility of him being gay then. Even though Boy George had been on his case for a decade already. Even now, in 2003, five years later, it's brought up in 9 of 10 articles about George. "Gay popstar George Michael, who was arrested for lewd conduct in an LA bathroom, released..."
After this he's released a best-of, some singles,
a cover-album, mucked Bush and Blair and is now (claiming to be) working on a new album "...due for release before Christmas, hopefully." Yeah, like we haven't heard that for seven years now... Anyways, those who wait etc. (...often wait forever)
George is like most men - can't live with'im, can't live without'im.
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