Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Boy George has described the singer who has replaced him in pop band Culture Club as "terrible" and "dreadful". The 45-year-old star led the group to global stardom with hits such as Karma Chameleon and Do You Really Want To Hurt Me in the 1980s. The band recently recruited newcomer Sam Butcher for a UK tour in December. Boy George said he had seen their video on MySpace. "I wanted to like it but I couldn’t," he said. "They’re my songs, they’re my heart, they’re my life." Original band members Jon Moss, Mikey Craig and Phil Pickett recruited 29-year-old Butcher through auditions this summer, after Boy George decided not to go back on tour. They have described their new frontman as "angelic and willowy" and "an intriguing and attractively unique individual". Butcher was unveiled to media and fans at an intimate gig in London in July, where his colourful style and androgynous image echoed the persona of his predecessor. Boy George added: "They’re my gay love songs about my boyfriend. He can’t sing them, can he? "To me, the mark of a good band is when someone else can’t successfully sing their songs, and he can’t sing my songs." Culture Club said they wanted Boy George to sing with the band again but he refused, and that they did not want to be involved in sniping. Butcher said: "I wish George well with his new solo career. I am hurt by George’s comments but realises George says terrible things about everybody, including Madonna. "I am just starting my career so it seems rather cruel to take pot shots at me. Maybe Boy George should keep it for the big boys like Madonna and George Michael." Boy George made his comments at the Vodafone Live Music Awards on Wednesday, where he also had a confrontation with several youths who were shouting abuse. The singer marched up to the onlookers, who were taunting him through a door at the Camden Roundhouse venue, telling them he would "knock your teeth out" and calling them "chavs". Boy George – fresh from sweeping streets in New York as part of community service – recently exhibited his clothing range at London Fashion Week. He is also releasing a single, Time Machine, with Amanda Ghost, who co-wrote James Blunt’s hit You’re Beautiful. Culture Club’s 12-date UK tour starts in Manchester on 7 December.

BBC 

Bitter is he? Hey if he is so upset with him why did he say no to them in the first place?

First few hours, smoke break that will take me to lunch time.

Lunch time over, time for a coffee break. Too hot for coffee I will take coke break. (Should he be drinking coke since it is coke that got him into trouble in the first place? Nyuck nyuck)

Finished coffee/coke break just in time to go home! Yay back to London for me, so I can rejoin Culture Club! (Who wants to tell him about Sam?) 

Dlisted 

An angry gay-charity organizer wants convicted cokehead Boy George to return a $10,000 performance fee the singer and DJ was paid, because he failed to turn up for a two-hour concert last year. Event organizer Chris Harris hired George to perform a two-hour DJ set at a gay fund-raiser in Rhode Island, scheduled the day after the singer’s arrest. Instead, George flew back to England and skipped the performance.As George left the New York City Sanitation Department yesterday, after the fourth session of his five-day sentence cleaning the city’s streets, Harris confronted the former pop star. "As you can imagine, there is a lot going on," George told Harris. "I didn’t take your money." Harris alleges he paid George’s former booking agent, Andria Law of the British agency Red Parrot, $5,000 up front and the remainder when the contract was signed.It is believed Red Parrot made a similar deal with a separate gay charity in South Florida.The former pop sensation’s manager, Jeremy Pearce, confirmed to The Post that at least one other charity was left in the lurch – with the two owed as much as $20,000 combined.Pearce said the first move following his high-profile client’s arrest last October for cocaine possession and making a false report to police was to cancel all upcoming gigs."It seems not all the people were told and some of the deposits went astray," Pearce said. Pearce insisted, however, that "George didn’t get any money out of it. And he will be looking at doing the gigs."

NY Post 

It really is not Boy George as much as the manager who kept the deposit. He did not deliver the artist and should give the money back. But more importantly, Boy George is worth $10,000?

Boy George may think he has it bad sweeping the streets of Chinatown as punishment for falsely reporting a robbery and cocaine possession, but he’s shuffling in the footsteps of some of America’s favorite celebrities. Many have had it even worse. Stars who can list toilet scrubbing on their résumé include Al Pacino (for $4 a week), Jamie Kennedy (he once wiped out Janeane Garofalo’s bowl) and Stanley Tucci (who emptied outhouses at a summer camp). Those who made it through are happy to admit how far they’ve come. # "I had to clean houses it was gross," Madonna once confessed. "I had to clean the toilet bowls of boys I went to school with. No, there’s nothing more degrading than being someone’s housekeeper. I mean, God bless my housekeeper and … well … all my housekeepers!" # "I used to have to clean bathrooms in a Mexican restaurant," admits Sean (Diddy) Combs. "It was a job. But I was the best bathroom cleaner there ever was." # "The worst job I ever had was cleaning lavatories at IBM in London," says Hugh Grant. # "I was an usher at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney," Nicole Kidman once revealed. "One time the latrines broke and I had to clean it all up. It was not fun at all. I was on hands and knees cleaning everything up. It was disgusting."

Rush & Molloy 

If I am correct Boy George opposed the street cleaning because he used to clean hotel rooms before Culture Club.

Boy George begins his 5 day community service sentence with the  New York City Department of Sanitation in Lower Manhattan. I decided to caption what he is saying, please feel free to add your own thoughts!

 So far this is easy, I can do this.

You want me to do what?

Wow, I have an audience. I am just going to sing and dance for them. Do you Really Want to Hurt me? Do you Really Want to Make me Cry?…

They love me, they really really love me! I feel like it is 1984 and I am still with Culture Club.

When will this city get over Taboo? Yes it was trash, but why do I have clean up trash? Why couldn’t I just do a free concert? Is lying to the police such a bad thing? Well at least that guy for the Deaprtment of Sanitation is cute!

AP and Reuters 

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