![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/boy-george-refused-im-a-celebrity-for-years-over-sweaty-pig-concerns/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/0_boy-george-main.jpg&description=Boy George says he turned down I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! for years as he thought he was 'too vain' to go on the ITV showI'm A Celeb: Boy George and Scarlette Douglas go rowingBoy George previously turned down I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! because he didn't want to appear on TV looking like "a sweaty pig" and was too vain for the ITV show. The singer, real name George O'Dowd, was lured onto the new series thanks to a big money deal with various reports saying his deal is worth up to £800,000. In his autobiography, Straight, published in 2005, he revealed that he was asked to take part previously but dismissed those who did so as 'smacking of desperation'. The singer, reportedly worth £44million, wrote: 'I was offered the most money anybody has ever been promised to appear on I'm A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here! I'm A Celebrity fans left cringing as Owen Warner asks Boy George his name Boy George is hoping to win I'm A Celeb ( ITV) Get all the biggest showbiz news straight to your inbox. Sign up for the free Mirror Showbiz newsletter. 'My agent Tony Denton urged me to take the meeting. I said, 'How would you fancy appearing on television in the jungle looking like a sweaty pig jumping into vats of creepy-crawlies?'. 'He said, 'I wouldn't do it'. To which I replied, 'There you go'. "Like me, Tony knows that heat is the enemy of drag." He added: 'Whenever I see anybody on those type of programmes it smacks of desperation. I'm far too vain.' Fast forward two decades and Boy George is now in the jungle and hoping to win. Arriving at camp for the first time on Sunday ( ITV/REX/Shutterstock) Speaking last week he was asked about becoming king of the jungle and replied: "Queen darling! It is about bloody time isn't it, we are so fashionable now, the gays. "Listen, I don't think you should go on a show like this if you don't want to do your best. 'I mean, it's the same as walking on stage. I don't ever walk on stage and think I will give a half leve){kind=link}
Boy George says he turned down I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! for years as he thought he was ‘too vain’ to go on the ITV show
Boy George previously turned down I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! because he didn’t want to appear on TV looking like “a sweaty pig” and was too vain for the ITV show.
The singer, real name George O’Dowd, was lured onto the new series thanks to a big money deal with various reports saying his deal is worth up to £800,000.
In his autobiography, Straight, published in 2005, he revealed that he was asked to take part previously but dismissed those who did so as “smacking of desperation”.
The singer, reportedly worth £44million, wrote: “I was offered the most money anybody has ever been promised to appear on I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here!