Boy George’s staggering net worth from 40-year music career

Boy George will be entering the Australian jungle this evening as he takes part in the 2022 series of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!. The singer is reportedly ‘being paid more than £800,000 to appear on the ITV show’, making him the highest-paid celebrity in the show’s history. As for how much Boy George is worth in total, Celebrity Net Worth says the singer is worth £43million.  Boy George, birth name George Alan O’Dowd, is an English singer and songwriter with a net worth of $50 million or £43,946,400.He is known for some of the biggest pop hits in recent memory, including Karma Chameleon and Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me. The celebrity is also famous for his striking, androgynous public image.Outside of the music industry, Boy George is a successful fashion designer and author.READ MORE: King Charles enjoys same drink every night ‘before dinner’ Boy George’s staggering net worth as he becomes ‘highest-paid I’m A Celeb campmate’ (Image: GETTY • ITV) Culture Club 1983 (Image: GETTY)George Alan O’Dowd was born on June 14 1961 in Kent, England.He has five siblings and was raised in a Catholic, working-class family. During his youth, Boy George followed the growing New Romantic Movement in the UK, and he eventually moved to London where he became strongly influenced by artists like David Bowie, Marc Bolan, and Patti Smith.Boy George started his career as a member of the group Bow Wow Wow, before leaving to start his own band called Culture Club. DON’T MISS…Gardening expert on when to stop cutting grass or risk ‘die-back’ [EXCLUSIVE]Unusual method to cook roast potatoes without oven or air fryer [HACK]Skincare expert on how to ‘eliminate fine lines & wrinkles’ in minutes [BEAUTY] Boy George is known for pushing fashion boundaries (Image: GETTY)Although Boy George initially stated that he was bisexual, he later clarified that he is gay.The singer also used to struggle considerably with heroin addiction but has attended several drug rehabilitation programmes.Boy George’s net worth also comes from the property market; at the peak of his fame in the late 1980s, he paid an undisclosed amount for a gothic Grade-II-listed mansion in the North London hamlet of Hampstead called The Logs.The property remained Boy George’s primary residence for the next four decades, and after major renovation, he listed the mansion for sale in September 2022 for $19.5 million.