Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I’d had to tell them.
BOY GEORGEYou get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.
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My God is better than your God
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I’m always tweeting about food and things that I’ve made.
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I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.
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For me with “The Apprentice,” it kind of blew out my business brain. I don’t really think of myself as a business person.
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The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn’t as big as it looked.
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A lot of what I’ve been learning in the last two years is due to therapy – about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven’t worked. It isn’t anything to do with anybody else; it’s to do with me.
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I was about 16 when punk started to happen… It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.
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The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules.
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I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they’re annoyed if you’ve had a party – you know, it’s been a bit too noisy for them or something.
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Madonna is a “living, breathing cash register.”
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I think of myself more as a creative-type person, but it’s quite nice to be challenged physically and mentally.
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You can partake of the buffet a little bit more than you should, so you have to have a routine.
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The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn’t care.
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For me, I’ve gotten better at that since I’ve gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.
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Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them – Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.
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