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- 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. “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.
ANDREW RIDGELEY 'HAD NO IA GEE MICHAEL WAS GAY' BEFORE HE ME OUT TO HIM
“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.
I want people to know that I have not been exposed as a gay man any way that I feel… I don’t feel any shame for… I feel stupid and I feel reckls and weak for havg allowed my sexualy to be exposed this way, but I don’t feel any shame whatsoever. Spl bee Gee Michael was stgglg wh his feelgs over not beg openly and publicly gay (Picture: Getty Imag)Gee Michael believed Wham!