Boy George has revealed that he has no regrets making I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! last year but ‘doesn’t understand the program’.
Hitmaker Karma Chameleon, 61, joined the star-studded cast in the Australian jungle for the 2022 series of the show hosted by Ant and Dec.
She was the fourth celebrity to be kicked out of the jungle and ended up clashing with other fellow campers, namely former Health Secretary Matt Hancock.
And now he’s divulged his thoughts on his time on the show in the months since he returned to the UK.
Speaking to Jackie Brambles on Greatest Hits Radio, George said: “I don’t regret doing it, but I don’t necessarily understand the show.” I feel like what happened there was not shown [on screen].
Reveal: Boy George has revealed that he has no regrets making I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! last year but ‘he doesn’t understand the program’
Star: Hitmaker Karma Chameleon, 61, joined the star-studded cast in the Australian jungle for the 2022 series of the show hosted by Ant and Dec.
Show: She was the fourth celebrity to be kicked out of the jungle and ended up butting heads with other fellow campers, namely former Health Secretary Matt Hancock.
“We had a lot of laughs and there were some amazing conversations, a lot of intimacy, but there was a pretty limited narrative that came out. I mean you can’t spend 24 hours with someone and not have a decent conversation. I didn’t just talk about mushrooms!
George also admitted that many people have since approached him saying they think he should have been the jungler crown winner.
“I’m not a one-dimensional human being and there was a slightly one-dimensional portrayal, but having come out of the jungle, the number of people who came up to me and said I should have won is hilarious,” he said. ‘I’m like why didn’t you vote for me then!’
It comes after Boy George, whose real name is George O’Dowd, said he has drawn a line between his criminal conviction and his 2009 prison term.
The singer served four months of a 15-month jail sentence after being found guilty of assault and false imprisonment of male accompanist Auden Carlsen.
speaking to SunGeorge said he was prosecuted on his own evidence after he told police he handcuffed Carlsen.
He said: ‘There was naivety, but I was on a lot of drugs. I don’t want to hurt the guy, I don’t hate him or wish him any harm, I’m like, get on with your life because I have.
“I remember sitting in my cell thinking, ‘You’ve done this and you have to fix it,’ and I have.”
George, whose real name is George O’Dowd, said he apologized to his mother Dinah for the incident.
He said: “She said, ‘Don’t apologize, just stay sober,’ I know what I did and didn’t do, I apologized and I’ve been sober ever since.”
Feelings: And now he’s divulged his thoughts on his time on the show in the months since he returned to the UK. Speaking to Jackie Brambles on Greatest Hits Radio, George said: “I don’t regret doing it, but I don’t necessarily understand the show.” I feel like what happened there was not shown [on screen]’
Winner: George also admitted that many people have approached him saying they think he should have been the winner of the jungle crown (pictured with Jill Scott, who won the 2022 series)
Conviction: It comes after George said he has drawn a line between his 2009 criminal conviction and prison term. The singer served four months of a 15-month jail sentence after being found guilty of assault and false imprisonment of male accompanist Auden Carlsen (pictured)
The star added that the interview was a “great moment” because he “will never talk about this again.”
George met Audun Carlsen, 43, in 2007 when hitmaker Karma Chameleon got in touch via a dating site and asked Audun to model for items from his clothing line.
They met at George’s flat in Shoreditch, East London, where they drank wine and did cocaine, but things took an unwanted turn.
After returning from the store, George attacked Audun with another man, claiming that the visitor had tried to hack into his computer, beating him up and leaving him handcuffed to a wall fixture from which he escaped by freeing himself.