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"Boy George has reportedly been lined up to star on Celebrity Big Brother next year.  The Culture Club singer is said to have demanded \u00A31m for an appearance on the reality show, having rejected a \u00A3750,000 offer from Channel 5 bosses.  &amp;quot;Boy George is a true British eccentric,&amp;quot; a source told the Daily Mail. &amp;quot;He would make extremely interesting TV.&amp;quot; The &amp;#039;Karma Chameleon&amp;#039; singer was banned from the Channel 4 version of the show back in 2010 after courts refused to change the terms of his probation for his false imprisonment conviction.  The 50-year-old served four months of a 15-month sentence for handcuffing and beating a male escort in 2008.  Boy George later said that his ban from the show had been &amp;quot;a lucky escape&amp;quot;, claiming that &amp;quot;the lack of intelligent conversation&amp;quot; would have &amp;quot;sent [him] over the edge&amp;quot;. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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