Boy George. What an absolute tool

[SpeckledlyHen]

That’s it really. Total and utter twat.

My guess is that Olivia is pregnant.
But that is a total guess on my part.

He’s alright isn’t he? Yeah he’s eccentric but that’s to be expected

And yes I know that he had the incident with the male prostitute but it was a while ago and we should forgive in time I think

It was a little more than an ‘incident’.

.The crime, for which he has served his sentence, was committed while out of it on cocaine.

Ah that's alright then

If BG had some the same to a woman would we all be so forgiving? I hope people see him for the slime he is.

Would you be saying the same if he’d tied up and beaten a woman @ZaSar? His victim is still traumatised.

I don’t watch it, but for those of you who do and also vote I’d ask you to remember how he voted to deny hungry children a meal and starve the useless sleazy fucker.

It's not really for anyone else but the victim to choose to "forgive" him, he's the one that has to carry the trauma. As it is, he hasn't yet.

@Happylittlechicken

“Would you be saying the same if he’d tied up and beaten a woman @ZaSar? His victim is still traumatised.”

Yes I think I would say the same. If enough time had passed. He sounds like he was on drugs at the time and regretted it. Yes it’s bad whether it’s done to man or woman but years have passed since it happened and I think it’s better to forgive whatever the sex of the person.

Uh, Roman Polanski did not make a mistake. He drugged and raped a child.

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk/2009/jan/16/boy-george-sentenced-handcuffing-male-escort]

So what kindness are these men showing to their victims? The fact that society holds these men in esteem despite their awful crimes shows how little some peoples lives are values. Surely if we wanted to show kindness we would hold these men to account, refuse to watch or acknowledge anything they appeared in. They are not sorry for their actions, they’re revelling in the fact they hurt people and got away with it because if their status.

I just don't want to be "entertained" by someone who did what he did. Whether he was under the influence of drugs or alcohol or whatever is not an excuse.

@Spencerfloral

I know he committed statutory rape (or at least it has been alleged and seems very very likely) however it did come in the time after his Wife and unborn baby were horrifically murdered by the Manson family and I believe he also suffered as a Jewish child in the 40’s. the point being his mental state at that time must have been very bad.

Thats not an excuse for what he did but I think that fate has already handed out enough senseless pain to Polanski that he can be forgiven so so many years after his crime.

So basically, excuses. If that was the case, why is every holocaust survivor not drugging and raping children. Why is every man who’s family is. murdered not a serial rapist? Why are you making excuses for a pedophile? It was nothing to do with his mental state. He is an abuser.

It was not statutory rape, that is usually defined as being without force. Not only did he drug the thirteen year old, but there was no consent involved. It's frankly shocking that you are using his past to excuse this.

@Happylittlechicken

Perhaps he always did that kind of thing, Idk. But given that his wife and his child (and they made a point of being brutal to the unborn child) were murdered by an insane serial killing cult I don’t think it’s reasonable that we could speculate how that may have effected his state of mind. And as terrible as any murder is this one, with the publicity and noteriety around it at the time as well as how the Manson family l really went after her pregnant belly is really the worst of the worst.

I don’t think any of us can judge what that may do to the surviving member of a family.

@Beefcurtains79

By forgiven I don’t mean forgive his crime, but simply to accept it was so so long ago and had he been convicted he would have been released long ago anyway and that his own life was so full of suffering at the hands of others that whatever pain he deserved, he has surely experienced ten fold anyway.

So you don’t know if he’s a serial child rapist but we should forgive him cos reasons. No. Fuck off. Should we also forgive Geoffrey Epstein? What crimes in your case do not warrant forgiveness?

Urgh, rape apologists at this time of the morning. Gross.

This thread probably has the most disgusting opinions I've ever read on MN and I've been her a long time.

People can be rehabilitated. Leslie Grantham of Eastenders fame was a murderer before he became an actor.

I do feel sorry for BGs victim though. BG has been on the TV countless times since his prison sentence, but I'm a Celebrity gets so much press attention it is a totally different kettle of fish. The producers should have given some thought to the victim when considering BG for the line up.

The male prostitute he abused made the point that if he had been a female prostitute chained and abused, BG would never work again in showbiz and he has a point.

Applaud him for overcoming his addictions but violently abusing a male prostitute in his position of celebrity is not something that should be looked over.