The VERY sensitive reason Boy George hung up on a radio host live on air: The Voice coach dumps an interview for his ‘insulting’ introduction
Boy George was seemingly having a bad day when he phoned in for a radio interview with 4BC’s Neil Breen on Friday.
The 59-year-old Voice coach took offence to Neil’s glowing introduction about his stellar 1980’s pop music career.
Describing George as ‘bigger than a big deal here in Australia’, Neil singled out two of his hits, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? and Karma Chameleon, with the latter heard playing in the background.
Awkward: Boy George was seemingly having a bad day when he phoned in for a radio interview with 4BC’s Neil Breen on Friday
Neil then confessed he was feeling ‘a bit nervous’ about getting to talk with his teenage idol.
‘Well, especially after that terrible comment about my music. I mean, there’s about 10 records you missed, which were huge, massive hits,’ George snapped.
The radio host was clearly taken aback, before George then rattled off a list of some of his other hits, adding: ‘I mean, please.’
Stunned: The 59-year-old Voice coach took offence to radio host Neil Breen’s glowing introduction about his stellar 1980’s pop music career
‘We know how big you were. You were big in my house…’ Neil told him, as he tried in vain to calm the pop star.
‘No, no, please don’t talk about me like I’m in past context. It’s really insulting,’ George interrupted.
Neil explained that he was simply trying to reintroduce George to audiences who may have remembered him from the ’80s.
‘No, no, please don’t talk about me like I’m in past context. It’s really insulting,’ George interrupted. Pictured early in his career
‘You’re reintroducing me, someone who’s been on national TV in Australia for the last four years, you don’t need to reintroduce me. I’m on TV, everybody knows who I am,’ he snapped.
The stunned radio host told George it was ‘just a bit of fun’, as he tried to urge him not to take his introduction so seriously.
But his comment was met by silence on the other end of the phone line, and he soon realised George had hung up.
‘You’re reintroducing me, someone who’s been on national TV in Australia for the last four years, you don’t need to reintroduce me. I’m on TV, everybody knows who I am,’ he snapped. Pictured on The Voice with (L-R) Guy Sebastian, Delta Goodrem and Kelly Rowland
‘Are you there? George, are you there? Okay, well Boy George is gone,’ Neil continued.
‘We’re trying to have a bit of fun here on this breakfast radio show and he was insulted that I played Karma Chameleon, but anyway, there you go. We might play it again.’
He added: ‘Sometimes pop stars, they’re funny, they’re finicky, if you play their old song that made them famous, they want to disown it. So you know what we’re going to do? We’re going to play it again!’
End of the line: Neil’s comment was met by silence on the other end of the phone line, and he soon realised George had hung up