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Andrew Ridgeley knew Michael was gay 1983 when the pair were shootg Club Tropina, but was 15 years before he me out publicly.

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ANDREW RIDGELEY 'HAD NO IA GEE MICHAEL WAS GAY' BEFORE HE ME OUT TO HIM

Michael said he was "persuad" not to e out as gay to his father, which kept him closeted publicly.

GEE MICHAEL HID BEG GAY TO PROTECT HIS REER THE US, ANDREW RIDGELEY SAYS

He said to me, 'Didn't know how to tell you this, but I'm gay. If not gay, you know, bisexual, '" Ridgeley said.

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But I'm gog to: I'm gay.

Gee Michael and Andrew Ridgeley on stage wh Shirlie Holliman - who Gee me out as gay to first. Ridgeley knew Michael was gay 1983 when the pair were shootg Club Tropina, but was 15 years before he me out his tobgraphy published yterday, he tells how Michael kept up the ‘fa’ for fear that gog public uld damage his reer and chance of petg wh stars such as Michael Jackson. Ridgeley knew Michael was gay 1983 when the pair were shootg Club Tropina, but was 15 years before he me out publicly.

Gee and Me, Ridgeley tails the moment Michael me out to him as gay a hotel Ibiza where they were filmg the Club Tropina tells how their iend and backg sger Shirlie Holliman was also the room ‘perched on a large sofa the sue’. I’m gay”.

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Was me as I sudnly thought, 'Oh my God, I’m a massive star and I'm gay.

Clost we get is one more terview segment where Michael explaed how he knew he was gay or at least bisexual by the age of 19: "I had stayed over at this guy's hoe, " said Gee. And there li the Gee Michael himself been volved, 's likely that much more would have been ma of his stggl as a closeted gay superstar. And aga, what about his stggle as one of the world's biggt gay pop stars at a time when beg gay wasn't even somethg teachers uld legally discs at school?

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Andrew Ridgeley 'had no ia Gee Michael was gay' before he me out to him - Mirror Onle .

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