Boy George. What an absolute tool

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That’s it really. Total and utter twat.

You have no issue with him having a career in music. Ok, so if he did a big comeback tour and made millions that would be ok but earning (reportedly) around £500k from appearing in this show is in unacceptable because it’s prime time TV?

He presumably still needs to earn a living. What difference does it make if the living is from appearing on a horrid reality show vs making music? It doesn’t change the reality of what happened, the fact that he served his time in prison and is now allowed to forge his career anyway he sees fit.

It's the sanitisation of primetime tv and the huge easy audiences I object to.

He will certainly find it easier to make a massive comeback tour afterwards. 🙄

The difference is putting him in front of people as a "personality". He was djing and so forth in between getting back in to telly, why does he deserve get these opportunities?

There are an awful lot of talentless nobodies who go on these shows. I wouldn’t call most of them celebrities. He’s probably more famous than most of the participants. I hadn’t heard of any of the current cohort apart from MT, and MH aside from BG.

Apparently Paul from S Club 7 tried to go on a few years ago and was rejected for not being famous enough!

Cannot be doing with Boy George what an arsehole.
Unfortunately the highest paid and too much material for Ant and Dec to be allowed to leave 😡

He's not in the same leagues as Michael Jackson or Gary Glitter though, is he?

It's not a competition!

I love BG. I think he’s coming across well. He has charisma and personality which is more than can be said about the majority of them in there.

Hancock is a despicable piece of ordure, too.

Foul, corrupt, and cowardly.

I despise them both

Only one in there who says how it is.

What, because torturing someone is just not that bad?!

Well said

He’s funny, says it how it is and I really think he can win it

I’m not on Hancocks team, I just think Boy George is a nasty piece of work.

‘Telling it like it is’, the mantra of all cunts.

Absolutely. If anyone says they ‘tell it like it is’ I admittedly think they’re a bit of an arsehole.

I’m curious as to what remorse looks like for some of you. Publicly crying and begging the victim for forgiveness? Doing charitable works? Plenty of wrong doers do these things but don’t actually feel a shred of remorse. At the very minimum you could say that at least BG isn’t a hypocrite.

I read a letter in the I newspaper, I think yesterday, that referred to a Japane se programme called Endurance which was on about 25/30 years ago, featuring Japanese people doing the same sort of horrible trials that are done on I'm a Celebrity. At the time everyone was astonished that such degrading and horrible trials were being dreamed up by producers, carried out by members of the population and thoroughly enjoyed by viewers.

I have to admit watching I'm a Celebrity in its very early days - not for the horrible trials that people had to do but because I find it interesting seeing whether people who are in the public eye actually match up to what I think they are like - and to see the most unlikely friendships and alliances forming. In the end, though, the trials became so sadistic (the final straw was a trial where people crawled through a tunnel whilst, I think, getting electric shocks) that I felt I should not be party to the sadism that was occurring. Much as I was interested to see how Boy George, Hancock and others fared, I will not watch any of it.

Television can be, and often is, a force for good but some programmes just pander to the worst parts of human nature. It's OK having a laugh but not at other people's expense - or at least not to this degree.

Clive James used to show excerpts from Endurance

Agreed. Nothing but chanting and snide comments. He’s just unpleasant. He didn’t become Buddhist to turn his life around. He was already a Buddhist who continued to take drugs and assault someone.

Eastie77Returns Remorse to me would be publicly talking about what you did and admitting shame and regret. Acknowledging his error. It’s not a small thing that he did however it’s dressed up as it’s the drugs or it’s a one off”. There’s also a sense that extreme behaviour is just what gay men do. It’s just not acceptable.
Maybe donating to an abuse support charity.
The fact so many don’t even know about it happening shows BG has swept it under the carpet. Claiming to be a Buddhist ( core belief “do no harm) is massively hypocritical.

He has publicly talked about it. I saw him on the Piers Morgan show and he apologised (again).

How can anyone possibly know that he hasn’t given money to charity?

Why can’t he be a Buddhist because he committed a crime almost 2 decades ago?

All of the above.

Plus, 'a sense that extreme behaviour is just what gay men do' is a very subjective statement. BG did something awful, but I have never perceived it as being in any way related to his sexuality.

I haven't watched it so can't really comment on Boy George's behaviour in camp. However, I agree that the assault he carried out on a young man was vicious and must have been truly terrifying. I don't agree that the BBC hushed it up - it definitely received quite high profile coverage at the time.

I think it is possible for people who have committed serious crimes to turn their lives around and make good. In BG's case, although he comes across as quite entertaining at times, he does not appear to be a particularly kind and thoughtful person. If, as someone has said on here, he makes snide comments and creates bad feeling, that suggests there is a nasty side to him. But who is to know really? You can only really get a proper idea of what someone is like if you have a close relationship with them. Some people who come across as very amicable, generous and good-hearted in public and with their friends are altogether different in the privacy of their own homes.