Boy George has shared how I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! bosses gave in to his demands after he risked quitting the show multiple times.
The Culture Club singer has admitted he almost walked out of the ITV show four times, and his protests led to him winning clean socks, a water filter and a golf buggy ride back to camp.
The musician told The Sun: “I am a bit of a stomper-outer. I spent the whole of the 80s saying I was going to leave Culture Club.
“My manager calls it my marching when I start going, ‘That’s it, I’m leaving.’
“So I was amazed how I was able to stop myself from doing a Gemma Collins. I can remember watching her quit and thinking, ‘That could be me’.”
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He added: “Basically, Sue Cleaver, who is younger than me, had a buggy back after a trial, but they wouldn’t get me one… Ant and Dec have gone off in a lovely Range Rover… I’m 61. I’m asthmatic. I’m pulling that card… so I just sat in a wheelbarrow.”
Boy George – whose real name is George O’Dowd – also admitted he refused to wear his microphone in the camp until he was given a clean pair of socks.
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The British icon also used the terms of his contract to protest about boiling the water over the fire to make it safe to drink.
He confessed: “I was saying, ‘I’ve had a week of this, it wasn’t in my contract and it’s like torture’. After that, they got us electrolytes and put a filter on the pump, so we didn’t have to boil water.”
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The pop sensation was regularly seen meditating while he was on the show, and it seems it certainly worked for him as he recalled the positive experience during ITV’s Lorraine.
He said: “What I did learn in there was my spiritual practices 1000% worked. They kept the animals away from me. They kept me safe.”
The 80s pop star was the fourth celebrity voted out of the reality show, which footballer Jill Scott won.
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