Tit-For-Tat: No Martha Stewart, So USA Banishes Boy George
June 24, 2008 by Tracey Thompson
Filed under Recipes
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As you have recently read, Martha Stewart was denied authorization to enter Great Britain due to her 2004 jail stint. Well, the great USA has your back Martha and it looks like authorities are denying a traveling visa for Boy George.
From ET:
The “Karma Chameleon” purveyor has been refused a visa for the U.S. leg of his summer tour, which was to include a special performance for his former colleagues at New York’s Department of Sanitation, over complications arising from the singer’s criminal past and pending his London trial this November.
If they really wanted to hurt him, it’s a job well done.
George’s rep said the singer was “devastated” he would not be able to play in the States for what would have been the first time in a decade, but that his legal team is working hard to get clearance for the ’80s icon to convince officials for a do-over decision.
“George is astounded at the decision and is having lawyers here in the States look at it in the hope that someone will change their mind,” the singer’s management said in a statement. “George has not been convicted of anything in London and there is a presumption in the Western World of innocence until proven guilty.”
It is truly comforting to see authorities on both sides of the Atlantic working hard to protect our shores from the likes of domestic perfection and make-up clad men. Don’t you feel so much safer?
