Boy George: “I love fame!” Star signs, sexuality, and writing songs with ChatGPT
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
It’s time to stop being filled with jealousy and judgement of others! Boy George admits he used to love hating people, but now actively chooses compassion and kindness.
In this chat with Fearne, Boy George explains how this philosophy has helped him celebrate his own and other peoples’ successes more fully. He also talks about why he loves fame now, but would have done his early fame differently, and about the solace he gets from talking to his late mum.
Plus, he’s writing songs about everything from global war to scrubbing his floors with ChatGPT, so does Boy George see a future where art and AI co-exist?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, a massive welcome to Happy Place with me Fern Cotton. This is the show that encourages |
| 0:07.0 | self-expression and reinvention. Today, I'm chatting to Boy George. Community, that word is a |
| 0:14.4 | dangerous word because it's like a fence that we put around groups of people, the gays, the trans, |
| 0:20.6 | the this, the that. And it kind of limits us to a |
| 0:23.5 | perimeter. So I don't live in a gay bubble. I've got loads of gay friends. I've got loads of |
| 0:27.7 | straight friends. I've got straight family. My life doesn't revolve around my sexuality. Do you understand? |
| 0:32.9 | So I just feel like, what are you talking about, you know, which is for me the thing that I get the |
| 0:37.4 | most upset |
| 0:38.0 | about when anybody tries to trample on someone else's existence for any reason because I think |
| 0:42.9 | we've all got to just be respectful and share this beautiful space with each other so everyone how are |
| 0:49.2 | you today do you know what I want to dispense some regurgitated advice from one of my best mates, Claire. |
| 0:56.4 | Claire is, like, she, you know, we've all hopefully got one of those mates who is the soundboard and like the honest person who always says, not the right thing, but the thing you need to hear. |
| 1:06.3 | And last week, she said that the most simple advice, it's nothing that, you know, any of you won't have heard before but she said to me we don't give up and it just |
| 1:15.3 | stuck with me it was like the end of a conversation we had on the phone she's like |
| 1:18.2 | we don't give up and it wasn't said in a way where we've got a I don't know |
| 1:23.7 | drag ourselves through anything without any level of self-compassion or having a |
| 1:29.9 | breather or allowing yourself to slightly fall apart and be vulnerable. I think actually it's the |
| 1:35.2 | opposite. It's, it's really allowing yourself to fall apart and kind of just go, do you know what? |
| 1:41.3 | I'm done. I can't do this anymore. And then going, and now I'm going to pick myself back up. |
| 1:46.2 | And in those times when you're having a shit one, obviously you, a part of you wants your mate to go, |
| 1:53.7 | babe, everything is awful, you know, you should feel like shit, you know, you absolutely fall apart, |
| 1:58.5 | never get out of bed and you want someone to validate all of it. |
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