Boy George has hit out at his I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! campmate Scarlette Douglas after she quizzed him about his previous assault case.
The iconic 80s singer opened up to his campmates about his criminal history on Wednesday night’s episode (November 16), but he wasn’t happy about Scarlette bringing it up.
The Karma Chameleon singer, 61, went to prison in 2009 after assaulting Audun Carlsen – an altercation that saw Boy George handcuff the man.
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Scarlette Douglas was curious to learn more about the incident as she asked the pop icon about ‘some guy in handcuffs and a radiator’.
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Boy George immediately shut her down by saying that it was not true as he replied: “It’s not true, no radiators.”
The hitmaker pleaded not guilty to false imprisonment and has consistently denied a claim that he beat the man with a chain.
He was convicted of assault and false imprisonment and went to sentenced to 15 months in prison.
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Scarlette replied: “Oh, just handcuffs,” and Boy George confessed that much was true as he said: “But the radiator bit wasn’t true, but thanks for bringing it up.”
She apologised: “Sorry, it wouldn’t surprise me if that was a fake story,” with the singer adding: “Sometimes these things, they go into the ether, and people keep saying them and they become folklore.”
But Boy George complained about Scarlette’s questioning later on in the Bush Telegraph when he said: “Scarlette blatantly talked about my court case. I thought it was inappropriate what she did, actually.
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“I thought she shouldn’t have said what she said to me. And I thought I handled it really well as it’s a big sore point for me when people say things like that.”
Back in camp, he’d insisted that he wouldn’t be working had it been true.
The star said: “Good job I know what the full story was. The best way to explain my thing, Scarlette, if I beat someone up there would be photographs. And there were none, because it didn’t happen.
“So when you beat someone up, the first thing the police do is take a photograph and they show them in court. There were no photos because I didn’t do that. But I did do one thing. I did handcuff him, yeah.
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“Because I’d handcuffed the guy I’d already assaulted him. So, when I said ‘I did it’, I thought, I’ll tell the truth, they’ll let me go home. I went to prison for four months. I was on tag for four months as well.”
Boy George added: “Do you know what, people in prison were amazing to me. They loved me.”
However, he admitted prison was “boring” and that they thought he was going to be a “total nightmare”, but thanked him when he left.
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