NEW YORK (AP) -- Do they really want to hurt him? That's the question Boy George's managers are asking U.S. authorities now that the 47-year-old singer has been denied a visa to enter the country.

The Culture Club frontman, whose real name is George O'Dowd, had planned a U.S. tour this summer, including a free concert at the New York City Department of Sanitation's Family Day in August. He worked for the department in 2006 while performing court-ordered community service in a drug case.

His managers said in a statement Monday that O'Dowd has been denied a visa because he's awaiting trial in London.

The singer, whose hits include "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" and "Karma Chameleon," has pleaded not guilty to imprisoning a man at his London home.

The U.S. Department of State said visa records are confidential so it couldn't comment


:Youmakeagrownmancrylikejoey

The garbageman down the street was practically in tears over this news!

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:'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

Poor Boy George.   Is it because he tied up a male escort?  

Probably drugs. The "boy" in your sig pic will have the same trouble, no?

LOL, glenny.    :weed  

I think the BOY has been DENIED because he roughed up a male hooky.  Its damn discriminatory, if you ask me.

I think the rent boy roughed him up & Boy called the cops & the cops spotted a shitload of meth (!) & that was all she wrote.

The Boy tied up the rent boy.  

Btw, have you played video game "Torture"?  Link coming soon.

Nah, video games are so "PhillyRob" if you know what I mean...

Too bad.

Those coupla dozen folks holding tickets for the tour must be crushed...

Boy George Banned From US, Imprisoned Manwhores Partially To Blame
June 25th, 2008 by Stuart Heritage
Hecklerspray.com


There's an old saying that goes 'An Englishman's home is his castle, and if he ever wants to imprison a Scandinavian male prostitute in his castle against his wishes then that's probably OK'.

But sadly it seems like America, the so-called land of the free, has got some issues about people chaining male prostitutes to their walls and vaguely insulting them for a bit. Just ask Boy George.

Boy George is just about to set off on a tour of America, except that now he can't get a visa because of his upcoming prostitute-chaining trial. Not that Boy George should worry too much, though. We know for a fact that there are plenty of other countries who'll give you visas no matter how many terrified manwhores you've chained up to a wall in your sordid little sex dungeon. Um, we read that in a book or something once. Ahem.

These days you can get banned from America for just about everything. If you punch people you get banned from America, if you're a terminally habitual drug user you get banned from America, and now it seems that if you might have chained a prostitute to a wall once you get banned from America as well.

Weirdly, though, if you're Fearne Cotton you can just breeze through passport control without a care in the world despite your numerous atrocious crimes against humanity. It hardly seems fair at all.

And this utterly illogical immigration system has messed up Boy George's plans something horrible. All he wanted to do was go to New York and give a free concert to all the binmen who he managed to ritually humiliate by spazzing out like a girl that time he was forced to do community service with them, but now even that's been taken from him.

Why? Because there's a possibility that he chained up a Norwegian male prostitute in his house last year. Did we mention that? We did? Oh, whatever.

Although he denies the charges, Boy George's false imprisonment trial is set to start later this year. And because of that, Boy George has been denied an entry visa into America. We can see why - as far as we're able to tell, America is full of fat bald gay men with oddly-painted faces who enjoy nothing more than chaining prostitutes to their wall and threatening them, so there's a chance that Boy George might just blend into the crowd and never return - but Boy George is getting quite worked up about it, as the New York Times reports:

Boy George was “devastated” and that “George is astounded at the decision and is having lawyers here in the States look at it in the hope that someone will change their mind.” … The statement said, “George has not been convicted of anything in London, and there is a presumption in the Western world of innocence until proven guilty.”

Well, that's partly true - the presumption is innocent until proven guilty, unless the accusation involves chains, 1980s popstars and frightened homosexual prostitutes from Norway, in which case it's funny to just mention it as many times as possible regardless of how true it is.

So Boy George won't be going to America any more. And, as rough as Boy George has got it, it's not him we feel most sorry for. No, it's the New York binmen who won't get to see Boy George's concert any more. True, there's a chance that an alternative act who's also done community service with the binmen will be shipped in from overseas to compensate, but if that happens it's likely to be Naomi Campbell, and those poor refuse workers will be lucky to escape with their lives.  

Nothing to do with drugs. it's THIS:


http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=6cMfYDQ7RKg

Finally Homeland Security gets one right......

This must be some sort of payback for the Brits not letting Martha Stewart into the UK.

Too bad they couldn't keep George Michaels out of the country.

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Jun 27^th, 2008 at 10:19am:

Too bad they couldn't keep George Michaels out of the country.

Or outta another guys ass...............

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That's like trying to stop a runaway train. Or the futility of mowing a lawn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqeTpbV9nt0

Well, George Michael blew the right dude at the State Dept for his entry.  


But, I'm sure the Boy can rise to the occassion.



PS.  I've a sudden urge to see "The Crying game" again.