This gay pop star just unloaded on Janet, Adele, Prince, Tina & … Princess Diana!
Boy George.The Culture Club frontman is spilling the tea on his past interactions with fellow celebrities in his new memoir Karma and hitmakers like Janet Jackson, Adele and Prince are not getting away unscathed.Subscribe to our daily newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.The 62-year-old recounts having three rude encounters with Janet Jackson over the course of his forty-year career.The bad blood started while backstage on the ’80s TV series Solid Gold when George approached the “Control” singer without wearing any makeup and professed what a big fan he was of her music.“She wasn’t friendly and didn’t try to be,” he writes, according to People. “But I just walked off and got myself into my best ‘Boy George’ and was walking around backstage to make sure I was seen by everyone.”When one of Jackson’s entourage asked him to record a video message for her, George didn’t hold back. “Next time you meet someone, be nice,” he recalled saying to the camera.After George’s blunt message got back to Jackson, she “summoned” him to her dressing room and explained she hadn’t recognized him without his makeup.
But that only ticked George off more.“I said, ‘That makes it worse. Are you saying you would have been nice to me if you knew who I was?
What if I’m just a fan?’” he writes, per Page Six. “We parted on awkward terms.”The situation only compounded over the next several decades.George claims Jackson “looked straight through me” while on the British series Top of the Pops and kept her back to him during his performance at the 2019 British Fashion Awards.
A post shared by Boy George (@boygeorgeofficial)The “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” crooner had slightly nicer things to say about late music legend Prince.
