George Michael
- Profession: Musician
- Place/Date of Birth: Finchley, 25 June 2020
Bidding will run from August 2 to 12 and any interested buyers can see the suit on all posters and promotional material for the singer’s tour, which is billed as "a celebration of his 25-year career in music".
The Wham! star - real name Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou - supports a number of charities as well as the Terrence Higgins Trust, including The Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity, Outline and Swan Lifeline.
He became the first singer to perform at the new Wembley Stadium, almost seven years after the last concert at the London venue, in June this year.
George to star in Catherine Tate show - July 18 2007
George Michael is set to star in Catherine Tate’s Christmas TV special, it has been confirmed.
The 44-year-old former Wham! star met the flame-haired actress at a free nurses’ gig last year.
The music man, who was recently banned for driving after he was found slumped at the wheel of his car, has already recorded the scenes for the BBC One show.
A source told The Sun: The scripts are top secret but George is happy to take the mick out of himself.
"He’ll do anything Catherine tells him as he’s such a fan."
George is not the only name to have guest starred in the hit comedy show.
Other famous faces who have made an appearance include Jools Holland, Patsy Palmer, Natalie Cassidy and Paul O’Grady.
The former prime minister Tony Blair made a surprise appearance alongside the actress’s teenage chav character Lauren for a Comic Relief special earlier this year.
George to publish warts-and-all book? - June 28 2007
George Michael is reportedly set to spill the beans on his life in a new book.
The Wham! singer will detail his life and career and include sections on his drug taking and sexual relationships, according to the Daily Mirror.
The tome, like many celeb autobiographies will be ghostwritten and the 44-year-old has hired music journo Rob Jovanovich to take up the task.
It is expected to released in October when George will undertake a UK signing tour.
A source said: "It’s expected to sell really well. George has millions of fans."
The star was sentenced to 100 hours community service earlier this month for driving while unfit.
George was found slumped at the wheel of his Mercedes car at a road junction in north London in the early hours of October 1 last year.
He was also sensationally outed as being gay when he was caught by an undercover policeman in 1998, when he was arrested for "engaging in a lewd act" in a public toilet in a park in Beverly Hills.
George to be in Extras? - June 19 2007
George Michael has reportedly agreed to star in Ricky Gervais’s show Extras - after meeting the comedian on a night out.
The 43-year-old bumped into Ricky whilst dining at The Ivy - and the TV star immediately seized the chance to ask him to appear in the sitcom.
A source told the Daily Star: "George immediately agreed to appear on Extras. It’s going to be absolute dynamite.
"Ricky loves to get people to play up their own image - and he’ll be in clover working with George. It’ll rival the hilarious Les Dennis episode."
Other famous faces who have appeared in the show include Robert De Niro, David Bowie, Chris Martin, Daniel Radcliffe and Ben Stiller.
The Office star is also hunting for a special name to appear in the Christmas special - which is rumoured to be the last ever episode.
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Michael had hit after hit with Wham! - Club Tropicana, Wham Rap, Wake me Up Before You Go Go all remain classics, featuring on every best of the eighties compilation going. Whilst in Wham! George had solo success with one of his most famous hits, Careless Whisper.
When the mighty Wham! split in 1986 Michael found he had to prove himself to music critics who thought he was just another flash in the pan boy band reject. He did it easily with hit after hit, a duet with Aretha Franklin and a blue eyed soul boy image. In the nineties he kept the good work up, duetting with Elton John on Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me and in 1992 was announced to be one of the richest men in the UK thanks to incredible record sales.
But in the mid to late nineties things started to turn sour with George’s record label, Sony and despite producing one of the most successful albums of the decade with Older, he left Sony to create his own label - Aegean Records. A year later George hit the headlines after being arrested for committing ’lewd acts’ in a public toilet (you all know that story), forcing the singer to come out publicly.
Many thought it would be the end of his career, but the master of reinvention hit back with arguably his finest single to date, Outside. The video for his hit single featured the cheeky Greek dressed as a policeman gyrating about a disco-balled toilet, a great two fingers up to the press and police who had outed him. George has since played up his gayness, recently telling the world about his ’open relationship’ with boyfriend Kenny Goss and his ’Vanilla’ tastes in sex. In between revealing all he has become increasingly political, releasing slated single Freeeek!, an anti Iraq war song and using interviews to champion the causes close to his heart.
The ex Wham! star remains a force to be reckoned with even after announcing that he is bowing out of the music business to release his recordings online for free. Good news for skint George Michael fans, not so much for the industry.
By Laura Walton
January 2008