Contents:
- GEE MICHAEL BELIEVED WHAM! SPL UP BEE HE WANTED TO E OUT AS GAY BUT FELT ‘TRAPPED’
- ANDREW RIDGELEY 'HAD NO IA GEE MICHAEL WAS GAY' BEFORE HE ME OUT TO HIM
GEE MICHAEL BELIEVED WHAM! SPL UP BEE HE WANTED TO E OUT AS GAY BUT FELT ‘TRAPPED’
“ ‘I didn’t know whether to tell you this … but I’m gog to: I’m gay. Documentary has explaed why Gee Michael didn’t e out as gay durg his time the new one-off special tracks the rise of the 1980s pop group via archive terviews wh Michael as well as his bandmate Andrew Ridgeley.
ANDREW RIDGELEY 'HAD NO IA GEE MICHAEL WAS GAY' BEFORE HE ME OUT TO HIM
“He said to me, ‘Didn't know how to tell you this but I’m gay – if not gay, you know, bisexual, ’’ Ridgeley said.
In the documentary, Michael said that he had realised he was gay six months earlier after an enunter wh a man while shootg the mic vio for “Club Tropina” 1984. In the new Netflix documentary Wham!, which began streamg today, sger Gee Michael reveals he very nearly me out as a gay man the early years of his reer—but was ultimately talked out of dog so by his bandmate, Andrew Ridgeley, and Ridgeley’s ex-girliend, Shirlie Kemp.
“He gave Shirlie [Kemp, Ridgeley’s ex-girliend and a close iend to both men] a quick glance, and he said to me, ‘Didn’t know how to tell you this, but I’m gay. If not gay, bisexual.