If you were born in the era where songs likes Karma Chameleon were considered acceptable to own, then we feel sorry for you.
Looking back at it now, the record is really poor. Almost U2 poor. With Boy George singing about karma, perhaps he thought the mystic force would bestow tons of positive energy towards him.
Clearly this wasn?t the case for poor Boy George. After all, no normal person can tell you another Culture Club song. Then, of course, the old drugs don’t help and neither does chaining up male whores in your house. Despite getting a jail sentence reduced for the whore thing, Boy George is suffering now. The probation service believe he is danger of media attacks if was to go into the Celebrity Big Brother house. We wonder why.
To us, Celebrity Big Brother seems like one gigantic prison anyway. You are surrounded with morons who want to become the head honcho and will do anything to make it possible. Whether it's threatening violence or bumming in the shower, the two murky places aren't a million apart. Just that the prison wardens are replaced by cameramen and Davina McCall.
Even though the format has been beaten to death, there's something fun about watching famous people put themselves through torture. Do the public watch so they don't have to read pointless autobiographies and instead see a warm physical person? Or because we want to see someone pierce their own tongue with a baked bean tin and piece of fish wire?
Do they do it for the love of meeting other famous people? Of course not, there is almost always a silly amount of money thrown at people to degrade themselves for a couple of weeks. The BBC report that Boy George has been offered somewhere in the region of ?200,000 to appear ? an amount which is a substantially higher than a pleb of the street would win in the normal summer edition.
So what's stopping Boy George from entering the Celebrity Big Brother jungle on ice? Ah, a little thing called being arrested for beating up a male hooker after chaining him up. Amazingly, this sort of thing wasn?t deemed socially acceptable behaviour and Boy George was handed a 15 month sentence back in January. However the sentence was cut with various conditions put in place. Quite likely, he wasn?t allowed to have many male friends over for tea. Though he is a free man to buy a paper and visit Hampstead Heath, the BBC reports:
?London Probation refused the singer’s request to appear on Big Brother as he is still on licence and wears an electronic tag.?
What a bummer. How can we cope without a good fashioned calamity popstar on the programme? Hmm perhaps the producers of the show have some other equally weird people to drop in the house for amusement? Oh look! The BBC again reports:
?Former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson and US rapper MC Hammer are among celebrities reportedly being lined up to appear on Celebrity Big Brother in January.?
Awesome, a balloon titted lifeguard and a comedy rapper. All we need is a novelty celebrity who appeared on Eurotrash from the 1990s and we're all set to go again.
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Shauna says
“Almost U2 poor.” really!? well, fcuk you… have a nice day! : )
adrian says
U2 are P I S S poor