Boy George is a more terrible person than Matt Hancock and I'm sick of people pretending he isn't

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Why does he get a pass for his brutal, clearly sexually motivated crime (he threatened the guy with whips and sex toys) and still have a career?

I'm so irritated I'm having to sound like I'm defending Hancock, a corrupt, inept Tory who cheated on his wife. He personifies everything wrong with Johnston's cabinet, but no he didn't kill thousands, Covid did. The decision to return vulnerable people from hospital to care homes was a terrible one, but we did the exact same thing in Scotland. He isn't a sex offender.

If Boy George had chained up a female sex worker and beat her with an iron bar and threatened to rape her with sex toys he wouldn't have ever had the opportunity to be on TV again.

Please share with us 'the good things' he did during his time as Health Secretary so we can balance that with all the egregious harm he did.

The only way to get these shockers off the tv is to stop watching and complain to whoever makes/commissions the programme. Discussing it and getting mad but knowing you can't stop watching is following the script that is written for all reality TV. Advertisers and investors will be rubbing their hands in glee. It's all going to plan.

This! Chris should be raising questions about BG just as much as he is about MH.

Sue Cleaver was also charged with driving whilst double the limit too wasn’t she

"They were receiving advice which was clearly shitty advice."

Not entirely shitty advice.

Care England, which represents the largest private chains where thousands of people died in the first months of the virus, told the Guardian it raised “the lack of testing in hospitals and in the care sector” several times in correspondence with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) as well as NHS England in late March 2020.
The Care Provider Alliance also called on the government to prioritise testing for care residents to stop the spread of the virus, warning on 26 March 2020 that without it “there is no way of knowing whether they are going to infect others”.
It also emailed Hancock directly saying: “All people discharged from hospital to social care settings … MUST be tested before discharge.”
Yet despite the pressure from frontline care operators, Hancock didn’t make testing for hospital discharges mandatory until mid-April, after the first wave death toll had peaked weeks later.

amp.theguardian.com/society/2021/jun/09/matt-hancock-was-warned-of-covid-care-home-risk-in-march-2020

Mike Tindall cheated on Zara too. What a bunch of arseholes.

I hate how MH frames his office affair as "I fell in love". His poor wife and kids, though his wife is much better off without him.

If BG's victim had been a female, would people still be using drugs as an excuse? Probably not because it is highly unlikely that his career wouldn't have ended under those circumstances.

Yes he was under the influence of drugs. Drugs that he chose to go on. While I do have sympathy with people who suffer from addictions, BG's poor mental health at the time was directly caused by choices that he made to flood his body with poison.

And yes, he did his jail time, but he does not deserve to still be in the public eye, enjoying fame. Whereas Matt Hancock cannot go to prison for what he did, but he has definitely served a form of sentence in the backlash that came from his actions.

I remember watching a program about Big Brother once where BB4 was nicknamed BB snore because all of the contestants were lovely, got on well, supported each other etc. It was regarded as the worst season.
The fact is, they deliberately put in contentious people who will stir up drama and arguments because drama=viewers.
If it bothers people then the only real solution is to stop watching.

What a horrible bunch of reprobates do ANY of them not have a history of antisocial behaviours or a criminal record. Or both.

Televising the Covid Enquiry would be a start in holding MH, and fellow criminals Johnson, Rishi etc to real account not some over-inflated PR exercise for mass entertainment

It's shameful it really is

They’re both slime balls.

Don’t understand why anyone watches this crap.

Also find it very ironic McPartlin taking the piss. Yes he paid his fine, was very sorry and sat on the naughty step for a while but I do not doubt that was the first time he'd driven while drunk. He was sorry he got caught. Imo risking the lives of innocent people is far worse than snogging a girlfriend who MH actually worked with so the social distancing were a bit mute at that point.

The celebs just look a bunch of arrogant navel gazers. I hope Moyles is out first.

Boy George is not a public servant. Matt Hancock was elected to serve in public office so should be held to higher standards (hollow laugh). That's the difference.

But they're both vile.

Had this conversation with someone at work. They were talking about how hard it must be for bg, seeing mh in the camp etc and I said bg has a cheek and I wondered how his victim and their family feel seeing bg prance about on tv. She knew nothing of bg's crime.

She did also say that she doesn't like ant and dec as their brand of humour is at someone else's expense - but isn't that the point of I'm a celebrity?

I don't watch it, never have.

Matt Hancock: He failed to declare the appointment of his alleged mistress, Ms Coladangelo, as an unpaid adviser last March before appointing her as a non-executive director of the department of health – a clear case of patronage that his Prime Minister would be proud of. In addition, Ms Coladangelo’s brother is an executive at a private healthcare company that just happens to have won a string of NHS contracts since the start of the pandemic.

Mr Hancock has been found guilty of breaking the law over the failure to publish details of dozens of contracts awarded without competition for PPE, and previously faced accusations of cronyism after it emerged that a firm in which he and his family own considerable shares had been awarded NHS contracts.

In other words the ex-Health Secretary has been mired in a fetid pool of corruption and nepotism long before details of his alleged affair became public.

Hancock profited extensively from people dying whilst in a position of power. Boy George gives me the creeps but the two are not comparable. Hancock should be in prison right now.

I think Chris Moyles (who is pretty vile himself) is the only one who sees through Hancock now. I would LOVE somebody to quiz him about the shitshow that was the covid care homes crisis. Let's see how he manages to turn that into a pity party,

His ex wife must just be seething at all the stuff he did that was covered up by the ITV bigwigs. And you bet she's up to her eyes in NDAs over it all.

MH didn't torture anyone. The virus did.
Yes - in hindsight better decisions could have made to manage the pandemic better. But I still believe his intentions were genuine and certainly weren't intended to torture anyone.

'Boy George is not a public servant. Matt Hancock was elected to serve in public office so should be held to higher standards'

MH implemented the advice at the time. He did the same re care homes as Scotland, Wales, Italy, everywhere. Get those discharged who were fit to be to then make room for the vast numbers expected. Older people were always sadly going to be the ones to die in large numbers. Sturgeon doesn’t get the same hysteria over this as MH does, but she isn't a Tory and if people were honest they would admit that is the issue. Again, he worked with the woman he was having an affair with so social distancing rules were irrelevant. Yes, unpleasant for his wife but these things happen every single day.

And why do people keep saying they couldn't visit loved ones in hospital, there was a pandemic! It was to reduce the risk of spread.

MH seems a bit awkward socially, but prefer him than guffawing sneery twat McPartlin.

And why do people keep saying they couldn't visit loved ones in hospital, there was a pandemic! It was to reduce the risk of spread.

You're missing the point. The public did adhere to these rules and not visiting their loved ones as they were dying, while politicians like Matt Hancock blithely carried on with their lives as though the rules didn't apply to them. That's where the anger comes from.

All the men are pretty vile (did you see MT getting handsy with a young production assistant - creepy bloke) except for the Hollyoaks hunk who seems like a good-natured airhead but dull as dishwater.

For those saying BG has done his time, many people would never be allowed to return to their career despite serving their sentence. I wouldn't ever work again in my field if I'd done that so why are people saying he has the right to return? He's a horrific man and I don't know why anyone else on the show hasn't raised it, they've been quick enough to take MH to task - and I'm certainly o fan of him either!

'You're missing the point. The public did adhere to these rules and not visiting their loved ones as they were dying, while politicians like Matt Hancock blithely carried on with their lives as though the rules didn't apply to them'

Did he visit relatives in hospital? No.

Kissing someone at work in what, June 2021 was hardly flouting lockdown rules. By that time it was social distancing and he worked with her.

Show me footage of him visiting relatives in care homes or in hospital when no one else could and I'll join you in your outrage.

Also they are clearly under orders to advertise BG music.

Every single show there's a joke and a tune played.

Don't get me wrong I love Culture clubs music. But I agree that you cannot forgive one person for their crimes whilst acting like another is the worst human ever.

Too many people allow the MSM to tell them what to think.

Millions of people, was corrupt with the public purse, broke rules, behaved atrociously!

I'm not a BG fan and don't think what he did was remotely ok, but MH is LEAGUES worse, and a slimy slippery fucker too!

But his victim has said he is still traumatised and can't watch I'm a celebrity with BG as seeing him is triggering. I believe he also said that whilst BG has made a number of public apologies he hasn't had a personal one.