Boy George. What an absolute tool

[SpeckledlyHen]

That’s it really. Total and utter twat.

He did. It's unconscionable that he's on the TV. Unbelievable. How must his victim feel?

I haven't seen him anywhere for years and assumed he was singing in old London pubs or whatever.

No he has done lots of TV.

I remember when that came out about Leslie Grantham. I was absolutely appalled.
As well as murder, he was subsequently also involved in an online sex scandal, and accused of indecent assault of a teenaged girl.
Horrific human being who shouldn't have been in primetime TV.

The chanting he did with the beads was just cringe!

Boy George is a depraved individual
The show is depraved and cruel
The vacuous indifference to anything but ratings is fucking toxic.

Watch something else that does not compromise your values as a human being, otherwise you are just as bad, as you are supporting them by tuning in.

This.

I think if you should lose your privileges to be a "media personality" when you commit violent / sexual offences. Write songs, sure, even perform the circuit with venues that'll have them - but having them back on mainstream media as if nothing has happened? Nah.

I don't want Tyson in films, I don't want Boy George in the jungle, I'm glad Barrymore has never managed to get his career back on track (although unlike the other 2 he's not convicted of anything. It's probably why he's never managed to get his career back on track, actually, TV being too scared the truth will come out and implicate him - he'd have probably been back if he'd done a few years, ironically).

I’ve been watching. I don’t feel guilty for doing so. The people claiming they don’t watch it seem to know an awful lot about it. 🤔

That’s what he does though, and has for years along with meditation. He’s Buddhist.

@monsteramunch

Why? I never said it wasn’t terrible. I said he still had a career as does BG? What is so wrong with thinking people can be forgiven after time? Obviously many agree or BG wouldn’t be on TV.

Likewise Mike Tyson wouldn’t host the view. Mark Wahlberg (blinded elderly man with a hockey stick in a racist attack) wouldn’t have had a film career. Chuck Berry (went to prison for statutory rape) wouldn’t be a legendary musician. Lenonardo Da Vinci (ran out of an Italian town for raping an underage boy) wouldn’t have pride of place in the Lourve.

At some point we have to seperate the art from the artists

Its confusing to me why people are expecting or wanting creative celebrities to be their moral role models. Why would anyone think they should be?

To fall grabbed a female crew member from behind by the breast. He’s not the ‘nice guy’ they want us to think. Pretty odd thread this, imo.

Tindall grabbed.

I watched I'm a Celeb for a couple of years around 2011ish. Went off it again and then this time was planning to tune in again to see our dear friend Mr Hancock squirm. However, I can't stand Boy George. To the point that I don't want to watch it at all. I like the song Karma Chameleon, that's as close as I can get to complimenting him. Everything I've ever seen him in (including one encounter in person) has reinforced my opinion that he's a self-absorbed, judgemental, attention-seeking numpty of the highest order.

I really don't get the vitriol.

Nobody is forcing you to watch this programme.

In the end ITV is a private channel and can invite whoever they want on their shows.

You can make the choice not to watch.

BG did his prison time and is now clean and sober. Are we saying that no offender should work again? of course not.

He also has been a Buddhist for decades and chanting is what those who follow that religion and philosophy do that.

There are many things to get outraged about in the world right now and I really don't see how a TV show is one of them.

Pretty sure that the only reason they wanted him in. That, and some questions about the Inbetweeners-style arse-groping in his office. 🤢

@Artygirlghost

Exactly. It’s like all the people who complain about these kinds of people having careers actually support their careers by watching and talking about them. But they want these people banned?
Why? Can they not help but watch?

If enough people just didn’t watch them guys like BG wouldn’t have careers, but obviously not everyone agrees that they shouldn’t be on TV so they do.

i think Chris is going to be really conflicted. His girlfriends part of boy George’s management so he knows him. But he’s genuinely a nice bloke, so he needs to not become George’s confident or he will end up dragged in to his drama.

@Norugratsatall I like Chris Moyles but the constant references to his weight loss are started to grate already!

As has been pointed out to you several times Roman Polanski never served a sentence. He escaped justice. He has not repaid his debt to society. If he was remorseful and wanted to make amends he'd have accepted his punishment and been out years ago.
As if his crimes were not already bad enough, his subsequent behaviour is also morally reprehensible.

BG did his prison time and is now clean and sober. Are we saying that no offender should work again? of course not.

It's NOT the same thing to say he shouldn't be given a mainstream media platform, as to say that he shouldn't work at all. He could make a decent living off his back catalogue, writing songs, performing etc.

But why should he have the massive privilege of entry onto huge platform/huge audiences after what's he's done?

I like Chris Moyles. His weight loss is part of his identity now. I’ve seen a few comments saying people didn’t recognise him because they remember him from when he was much heavier.
Its weird that the editors are showing him mentioning his weight loss a lot when he probably isn’t-he doesn’t choose which bits of conversation get shown.

Chris Moyles isn’t someone I would describe as nice he’s said and done some horrible things. Just Google Chris moyles and Charlotte church/racism/homophobia/sexism etc and there’s numerous articles about his ‘controversies’.

@TheFreaksShallInheritTheEarth

I just think at his age and with all the terrible thing he’s suffered in life we can let it go at this point.
I mean the same people complaining probably watched the Piano and Rosemary’s Baby.
But this wasn’t about him anyway, it was about BG.

Anyhow there’s loads and loads of celebrated celebrities who have done weird stuff. JLL was just being celebrated and married his 13 yo cousin. There was a documentary on Chuck Berry the other night and he went to prison for statutory rape, has been convicted of illegal filming womens dressing rooms and there are sex tapes of himself urinating and farting on prostitutes.

Mark Wahlberg never face serious repercussions over violently attacking an elderly man with a hockey stick and blinding him.

Mike Tyson was convicted or rape and hit a man’s ear off etc.
loads of rockstars have had sex with underage girls they just haven’t been reported for it. There was something about Bob Dylan like that not long ago.

My point is why single out BG when he’s already been on TV loads of times since then and it was ages ago?
If you don’t like what those guys did enough to not want to see their art/performance then you can make the choice not to watch them. Others can make up their own minds.

WTF? I agree he shouldn’t be on the tv and for his victim to have to see him thriving but what the hell has being gay guy to do with it? Why has sexuality come into it? You think gay people get free passes?

• got not guy

You provided 'reasons' for what he did.

You believe that a man who drugged and anally raped a child should be forgiven.

Many of us don't.

Many of your posts have been inflammatory and you are a rape apologist.

I hope MN delete them.