Richard Madeley slams I’m A Celeb stars for not grilling Boy George on prison past
RICHARD Madeley has slammed I’m A Celebrity stars for not grilling Boy George on his prison past.
During the late noughties, the star, 61, served time in prison.
Culture Club singer Boy George – real name George O’Dowd – was jailed in 2009.
He was convicted of assault and false imprisonment after he was found guilty of handcuffing Norwegian model and male escort Audun Carlsen to a wall and beating him with a metal chain.
The star pleaded not guilty to the attack but was sentenced to 15 months jail after being convicted of assault and false imprisonment.
The singer ending up spending four months in prison.
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Now, TV star Richard has slammed the campmates for not discussing it with Boy George.
Appearing on Good Morning Britain, the star said to Susanna Reid: “He’s not been questioned about it. He chained someone to a radiator for a very long time and beat them up.”
Susanna responded saying: “Well he denies the beating.”
“Well he was convicted and spent four months in prison and no one has mentioned it to him at all,” Richard added.
He continued: “I wonder if that’s because they’ve forgotten it.”
Susanna said: “It was more than 10 years ago that it happened.”
To which Richard replied: “Yeah. He says it was a psychotic episode partly fuelled by drugs, that’s his rationale.”
In an interview after George entered the I’m A Celebrity jungle in November 2022, Audun said he is “still traumatised” from that night.
Branding George a “monster”, Audun told : “Had I been a woman and he did what he did, he would never have been given the platform.”
In 2017, Boy George plucked up the courage to publicly address the scandal in a warts ’n’ all chat with Piers Morgan on his ITV Life Stories show.
George says he regrets the incident — but will not apologise for it, claiming it was fuelled by drugs.
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The singer said: “I sent myself to prison. I told police why I did what I did. I was having a psychotic episode.
“I was a drug addict so I can’t say my reasons for doing it were founded in any way. But I told the truth. I have always denied beating the guy.”
