Former Wham! singer Andrew Ridgeley has said his late bandmate George Michael would have been “immensely proud” to receive a Fellowship of The Ivors Academy.
The 63-year-old accepted the award on Michael’s behalf at the 2026 Ivor Novello Awards at the Grosvenor Hotel in London, and said Michael would have recognised the way modern songwriters at the ceremony spoke about the “art and the craft” of songwriting.
