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Boy George banned from appearing on Celeb Big Brother
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 23 December 2009
The High Court has banned Boy George from appearing on the next edition of ‘Celebrity Big Brother’, the once popular Channel 4 show best known for spearheading the revival of racism in 2007. George has been offered a reported £200,000 to appear on the reality show franchise next month.
The problem, of course, is that the singer is technically speaking still serving his time for that incident where he chained a male escort to the wall of his Shoreditch flat. Although he was released from prison just four months into his fifteen month sentence earlier this year, he was done so ‘under licence’, meaning there are restrictions on what he can and can’t do, administered by the Probation Service.
When they balked at the suggestion George be allowed to appear on the Channel 4 show while still technically serving his prison sentence, the singer’s lawyers went to court to try and get the probation people’s decision overruled. But this morning Mr Justice Bean backed the Probation Service’s viewpoint. And I should think so too.
George could still fight the ruling in the Court Of Appeal, he has until 3 Jan when the latest series of ‘CBB’ is due to start. It is not clear if his legal people plan to make a second appeal.
