Boy George appeared in his first live television interview since leaving the I'm a Celebrity jungle on Tuesday morning.
Chatting with Lorraine Kelly on her ITV show, he told all about his relationship with Tory MP Matt Hancock during their time on the Ant and Dec hosted show. When the Culture Club icon left the jungle, he said he was surprised to see reports of him "bullying" the politician.
Today he denied those allegations as he claimed that Mr Hancock "isn't dislikeable". He said his only problem with Mr Hancock was the way that he apologised to the nation.
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The MP was caught having an affair with his aide-turned-girlfriend Gina Coladangelo during a time when he was advising everyone else not to see their loved ones amid the coronavirus pandemic - essentially breaking his own rules.
Boy George said: "He isn't a dislikeable human being. What he did was wrong and my only problem was the way that he apologised.
"If you do something wrong, you say 'I did it wrong and I'm sorry'. Don't use a technicality because it's not going to work. So that's the only thing that I thought was the problem."
He added: "I was quite surprised when I came out and read that I had bullied Matt. I knew for a fact that he would never say I bullied him because that was the opposite of what I did. Bullying him would have been being dishonest, going behind his back and saying it to everyone else.
"And there was some of that, there was a lot of that in the background - people saying things about Matt and then being friendly to his face. I said what I had to say and just wanted to enjoy my time in the jungle."
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