Culture Club icon Boy George, who won best music artist and a lifetime achievement at the British LGBT Awards, talks about ‘dangerous’ people who don’t ‘help the world’
Eighties icon Boy George has slammed what he calls ‘dangerous’ people who go around ‘hating’ and regurgitating what they’ve seen on the internet.
Speaking about the recent surge in support across the country for Reform UK, the 64-year-old told the Mirror: “In politics and pop, you get what you deserve.”
“I want to live in a world where politicians do not care what I say about them. Get on with your job. If you’re replying to someone that’s famous, you’re not concentrating on what’s really important, which is the country. You can go around saying, ‘I hate this, I hate that.’ But then, in your real life, if you’re not doing anything to make the world better, how are you just anything but noise?
“You’re just another person repeating what you’re hearing on the internet, and it’s very dangerous.” The Culture Club icon was speaking at the British LGBT Awards, where he received a lifetime achievement gong from French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier.
It comes just weeks after the singer’s Eurovision gamble backfired when he failed to reach the final, while representing San Marino alongside entrant Senhit with the track, Superstar.
George, who also beat the likes of Charli XCX and Doja Cat at the LGBT Awards to take home music artist of the year, had words for those unsupportive of the trans community.
“There’s a lot of sh** going on in the world, but some of it is just happening on the internet. If you actually ask people, ‘Have you actually met anyone trans? Or have you had an altercation?’ None of them have,” he said.
He went on to say: “I don’t want to be too controversial, but J.K. Rowling has created an ogre under the bridge. Trans people account for less than 1% of the population of the entire world. When I see women attacking trans women, it breaks my heart.”
The Kent-born star also lifted the lid on future projects – in the main, working on a new production of his 2002 musical, Taboo – but also the imminent release of an AI-powered version of Karma Chameleon– a mere 40 years after the original song topped music charts across the globe.
Admitting he wasn’t sure about an AI version at first, he said: “I can’t wait. I was the naysayer, saying this will never work, but it does and it’s insane. And the good news is I can just send a robot to do it!
“That song is such a massive song for so many people. Creating this version of it with AI, obviously, I have to re-sing it and everything, but it takes what you’ve done, what you are, and everything you’ve experienced, and makes it into this magical thing. It’s just phenomenal.”
For more on the annual British LGBT Awards, including all this year’s winners, see https://britishlgbtawards.com.
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