Michael Jackson Throws Hissy Fit At GQ

Fairground-lacking pop recluse Michael Jackson has voiced his high-pitched anger at upscale lads mag GQ.

After battling kiddie-fiddling allegations last year - of which he was proven completely not guilty in every gleaming innocent way - Jacko has moved out to the Gulf state of Bahrain, where he has started a new life with his pet giraffes and jovial monkey butlers. Presumably.

Yet - despite this self-imposed exile - word has still reached Michael of a GQ feature that cheekily parodies him. The article - 'Where's Michael?' - consists of a series of fake photographs, each featuring a Jacko impersonator and purporting to be snapshots of his travels around his new homeland.

The one that really got his goat? An image that features the pretend Jackson huddled in a dark cinema, keeping a close eye on a nearby row of children. Which obviously - what with him being entirely acquitted of any heinous charges that were levelled against him - is something that would never ever happen in a million billion years times infinity. Jackson's legal representative Raymond Bain burbled that:

"Mr Jackson is furious that his image has been used in such a misleading way, and is demanding an apology from the editors of GQ, and its publisher, Conde Nast. Mr Jackson is also demanding that the magazines be pulled from newsstands."

It seems that - rather than clamouring for any financial reward - all Michael wants is for those naughty GQ boys to simply say sorry. Kind of like when hecklerspray had to apologise for rummaging through the Olsen Twins laundry basket. The naughty GQ boys - led by lead naughty GQ man Jim Nelson - appear to have other ideas, though:

"It is very clear that the pictures in the story… are satirical, whether it's a picture of a Michael Jackson imitator sitting in a Bahraini cinema or an image of The Gloved One standing flamboyantly in the desert. Mr Jackson may feel that the person in the photographs is an 'impostor', but he is merely an imitator."

We still don't really know what that last bit means. What we do know, however, is that the media had better start handling Michael Jackson with a little bit more sensitivity. He's a touchy guy, after all, and it must really upset him to see himself slandered so vigorously in print.

The pasty-faced freak.

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[story by C J Davies]