He was once a world star. And still today Boy George enjoys great popularity. But the Culture Club singer has already walked through a few valleys in his career. Now he is also exploring the shallows in reality TV – he will be a participant in the British version of the jungle camp.

“I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!” landed a real coup. The British version of the jungle camp has now committed cult singer Boy George for the upcoming season, which begins in November. This is reported by the “Daily Mail”.

The singer continues to pay dearly for his appearance on the TV show. There is even talk of the “biggest contract of all time” in the format’s 20-year history. According to the report, the Londoner is expected to collect £879,000, or just over a million euros, for taking part.

“It’s beyond exciting that we’ve signed Boy George,” a source from the production said. “It’s been a long time since we were able to attract a major world star to the show, and he will undoubtedly attract viewers,” the informant is certain. The singer is a “national treasure” who is also very popular in Australia. He is therefore the perfect complement for the return of the show Down Under. After the format was last produced in Wales, UK due to the pandemic, it is now being shot in Australia again for the first time.

Earlier this year, during an appearance on the show “Saturday Night Takeaway,” Boy George hinted that he was planning on taking part in “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!” could imagine. In conversation with the moderation duo Ant

The singer has been vegan for many years. “If there’s a vegan version, I’m in,” says Boy George. The only question is how he wants to complete the food tests in the jungle under this premise. But maybe he will also get a very special celebrity bonus.

Boy George was born George Alan O’Dowd in 1961. With the formation Culture Club and hits like “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” or “Karma Chameleon” he achieved world fame in the early 80s. Later he was also active as a solo artist and DJ. After his band reunited in 2014, he is currently reunited with Culture Club. Although he was never able to build on the great successes of his musical early days, the 61-year-old still enjoys great popularity.

Boy George also experienced many a low point in his career. He was arrested several times for drug possession. In 2006 he was sentenced to five days of social work in the USA. The pictures of the singer cleaning the streets of New York went around the world. In 2009, Boy George spent four months behind bars in his native UK for beating a call boy while under the influence of drugs.

Boy George is now one of the few really big stars who have so far embarked on the jungle camp adventure – be it in Great Britain or in Germany. A-listers on “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!” So far there have been former “Star Trek” actor George Takei, singer Limahl and former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon. In Germany, the commitments of actor Helmut Berger, ex-transport minister Günther Krause and Hollywood star Brigitte Nielsen, who even took part twice, were celebrated as a major coup.