They were one of the biggest bands of the '80s and Ant and Dec are currently enjoying dancing to clips of their songs during I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! Now Culture Club lead singer Boy George has shared with fellow campmates how he almost quit the band.
The I'm A Celebrity 2022 campmate - who is one of the highest paid contestants of all time - told his jungle friends in the episode on Saturday, November 12 that his bandmates in the '80s chart-topping "hated" Karma Chameleon.
He said: “Karma Chameleon they hated. They hated it. They were like, ‘It’s the final nail in our coffin, it’s rubbish’ and I had to fight to get it onto the record. I had to say, ‘If you don’t put it on the record, I’m leaving the band.’ I did that every week though. I was the queen ‘stormer outer’. Every time I didn’t get my way I was like, ‘I’m leaving!’”
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Karma Chameleon featured on the group's 1983 album Colour By Numbers and topped the charts. Boy George also shared that the group hasn't always been called Culture Club. He explained: “We were called Caravan Club, we were called Can’t Wait Club and then were like, ‘We’re a Culture Club, look at us. You’re Jewish, I’m Irish, you’re Jamaican, Roy’s an Anglosaxon!’”
Throughout his music career, Boy George has been renowned for his flamboyant sense of style and even asked for a customised uniform as his luxury item in camp. Read more about that here. Discussing his fashion choices with his fellow campmates, he said: “My mum would say [to my dad], ‘Look at what’s he’s wearing’ and my dad used to get his paper [and drop it down to look] and go, ‘If he wants to get beat up let him go out’ and that was it you know?”
Charlene White asked: “Was it a surprise to anybody when you were dating boys?” Boy George replied: “No. My dad used to do this thing in the car, he’d turn down the music when he was going to make an announcement. My brothers were all going to work, he was like radio down, he goes, ‘I need to tell you about your brother’. They said, ‘We know, turn the music up.’”
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