Boy George talks Culture Club, reality TV, meeting Arnie, and cookery tweets
At 54, singer, DJ, reality TV star and all round ‘creative-type person’ Boy George says he’s grown into himself. He waxes lyrical about his music, meeting Arnold Schwarzenegger, navigating social media and his ‘wonderful’ life
Fresh off a seven-day run of concerts with fellow ’80s icon Cyndi Lauper, Boy George is taking on the world with Culture Club.
The band kicked off a 50-city world tour in Australia last week, but that’s not all that’s keeping Boy George busy. The 54-year-old entertainer just wrapped his first season as a coach on The Voice UK and will appear on the rebooted Celebrity Apprentice with Arnold Schwarzenegger later this year. George is also keeping up with his healthy lifestyle and 22.6kg weight loss, making vegetarian meals and considering a possible Boy George cookbook. Plus Culture Club is finishing its first album of new music in more than 15 years, Tribes.
Wearing immaculate eye make-up and a natty suit, George sat down to talk about finding fulfilment onstage and off.
How do you balance introducing new music with playing the hits people want to hear?
Everything I think in life is about context and intention. So when you go onstage, you go on there to have a good time, and you smile and you engage with the audience and you invite them in. For me, I’ve gotten better at that since I’ve gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.
What changed?
