Posted July 23, 200618 yr http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/images/homepage/00main.jpg EXCLUSIVE: Caught 'cruising' in woods GEORGE'S SEX SHAME By Neville Thurlbeck MEGA-RICH pop superstar George Michael this week sank to new levels of depravity—trawling for illegal gay sex thrills in a London park. News of the World investigators caught the singer red-handed and red-faced as he emerged from the bushes after cavorting with a pot-bellied, 58-year-old, jobless van driver. When challenged George, 43, was wild-eyed and trembling. Trying to hide his face under a baseball cap, he screamed: "I don't believe it! F*** off! If you put those pictures in the paper I'll sue!" CHECK OUT OUR SEX SHAME SLIDESHOW HERE Minutes earlier the one-time heart-throb had been lurking in the shadows at the notorious homosexual pick-up spot on Hampstead Heath. George is a man with the world at his feet. He's on the brink of a lucrative 50-concert comeback tour, which sold out in half an hour. Yet he ignored all the risks and dangers to pull seedy Norman Kirtland. The pair kissed and groped each other before going even further. It was all in a public place and totally illegal — just like the day in 1998 when George flashed at an undercover cop in a California park toilet. After the shock of being confronted by us, George stumbled to his flash Mercedes coupe, retrieved his keys from their hiding place on top of the rear wheel and roared off into the night — back to his world of showbiz, celebs and glitz. Grubby Meanwhile his new buddy Kirtland crept from the undergrowth looking sheepish and rushed to his Ford Transit van. As he opened the door a grubby, stained mattress was clearly visible in the back. We later tracked him to his home 60 miles away—a squalid flat in Brighton, East Sussex. Looking gross and dishevelled, Kirtland answered the door naked — pulling on grimy shorts as he invited us in. The contrast with George Michael's opulent, high-roller rock lifestyle was stark. George, whose family is Greek-Cypriot, has amassed a £70million fortune from sales of records including I Want Your Sex and Careless Whisper. He owns a £5million London town house and a £4million Beverly Hills mansion. Kirtland's dingy place just off Brighton seafront, was littered with rubbish, dirty crockery and filthy laundry. His only companion is a 20-year-old cat. He told us: "I don't even like George Michael. And I didn't recognise him immediately. "He sort of came up and got close. He looked kind of brown so I said to him, ‘You're not totally English, are you?' "I told him I'd come all the way up from Brighton and he said, ‘What? Isn't Brighton good enough for this sort of thing?' "I told him it's highly dangerous at 2am. You'd get your throat cut. "He told me I could contact him on the Gaydar website and we just started kissing. "He did it very well. That was one of his major points. Then it was fondling and mutual pleasuring. It wasn't full sex but it was fantastic." Kirtland's confession then took a bizarre twist as he bragged: "There's a secret that I have which no one knows about. It's a personal thing. "Most people pull away from it. But George actually seemed to respond. "When we'd finished he said, ‘I've got to go. I've got to go somewhere and chill out.' And that was that. "OK, I admit I was there for sex. But I'm astonished a man as famous as George should even think about doing it. It's potentially so dangerous." George's night of shame began just after midnight on Tuesday when he took a short drive from his Highgate house to the Hampstead home of long-term lover Kenny Goss. Five minutes later he drove to the nearby heath and spent two hours prowling around before hooking up with Kirtland. When confronted by our team, a shaken George desperately tried to justify his sordid secret quest for cheap, risky thrills, which friends fear is spiralling out of control and threatening his destruction. In a sweat, the ashen-faced singer declared: "Are you gay? No? Then f*** off! This is my culture!" Then he claimed: "I'm not doing anything illegal. The police don't even come up here any more. "I'm a free man, I can do whatever I want. I'm not harming anyone." But George's worried pals say the former Wham! frontman is the one being harmed. After the California cottaging scandal, George escaped a six-month jail term but was sentenced to community service plus sex therapy to curb his habits. It obviously hasn't worked. In February this year he was cautioned by police for possessing cannabis after being found slumped in his car by London's Hyde Park Corner at 1.50am. Weeks later we snapped him driving erratically and he appeared to fall asleep at traffic lights. One friend said last night: "We're really concerned. It's long been known he's a heavy cannabis user but we're beginning to fear the pot may have affected his mind. He's lost his judgment. He must seek professional help or things could end very badly for him. "He's just asking for serious trouble. One day he'll be attacked in one of these dodgy late-night encounters. "It's so sad to see a talented guy wasting himself like this." Edited July 23, 200618 yr by Dino
July 23, 200618 yr it's only a 'shame' because he's a gay man and it was a gay sex act. How many straight men, if they had the chance, would go to a park to pick up women if they were as up for it as this man obviously was? There'd be hundreds of them there..... It's homophobia of the lowest form..... who did George offend? Who did he hurt? Who was up on the Heath at 3am? I'm sick and tired of the British gutter press's determination to crucify George Michael. I don't see these vile headlines when a boyband member shags some tart in a club toilet..... I don't see this sort of headline when a straight celeb gets caught with his pants down in a field with a woman..... The only 'shame' here, in the eyes of the News of the World, is that it is a gay sex act - and don't forget, this newspaper has people follow George EVERYWHERE these days since his car prangs this year..... so they knew exactly the kind of story they'd get eventually. Leave the man in peace - it was a park in the middle of the night with nobody else around. Big deal.
July 23, 200618 yr Author it's only a 'shame' because he's a gay man and it was a gay sex act. How many straight men, if they had the chance, would go to a park to pick up women if they were as up for it as this man obviously was? There'd be hundreds of them there..... It's homophobia of the lowest form..... who did George offend? Who did he hurt? Who was up on the Heath at 3am? I'm sick and tired of the British gutter press's determination to crucify George Michael. I don't see these vile headlines when a boyband member shags some tart in a club toilet..... I don't see this sort of headline when a straight celeb gets caught with his pants down in a field with a woman..... The only 'shame' here, in the eyes of the News of the World, is that it is a gay sex act - and don't forget, this newspaper has people follow George EVERYWHERE these days since his car prangs this year..... so they knew exactly the kind of story they'd get eventually. Leave the man in peace - it was a park in the middle of the night with nobody else around. Big deal. Well it seem like george is more famous for his scandals than his music these day LMAO he´s becoming like the male version of Paris Hilton .....just kidding no offence but i wish george was never out of the closet and kept his life as a gay man secret or whatever like back in the day. wen he was out but not to the public and. i think people the press would have been maybe more nicer to him and maybe leave him alone.
July 23, 200618 yr The shame for me is that we have such a scumbag paper in this country, with such low-life journalists and reporters working for it. Having said that, I do think George is on a roller coaster ride to destruction at the moment. :( Edited July 23, 200618 yr by suggy
July 23, 200618 yr Author Big bloody deal - he just wanted a shag, it's not like he killed anyone <_< Well isn´t he cheating on jenny??? Edited July 23, 200618 yr by Dino
July 23, 200618 yr I don't think what he did was scandalous at all, though..... like I said - imagine a park where straight men could go to pick up random women at night, no strings attached, no hassle, no money spent.... it'd be packed out night after night. The issue for the Screws of the World here is the gay one, not that George went cruising the Heath.
July 23, 200618 yr He hasn't done anything wrong, but he should know that he's an easy target for the press and that doing things like this will only stir up trouble for him. Not nice I know, but that's the way it works.
July 23, 200618 yr I agree with Russ, so what if he was wandering round the Heath? Who actually cares? It IS just another attempt to crucify him, shouldn't affect him too much I wouldn't have thought, the New Of the World are hardly CREDIBLE are they?
July 23, 200618 yr Big bloody deal - he just wanted a shag, it's not like he killed anyone <_< or released an album as poor as http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Ttats.jpg :lol: :lol:
July 23, 200618 yr If a straight man went out and picked up a girl would anybody care? well doesnt dogging stories get loads of coverage in the News Of The World as well. so suppose its just the same.
July 23, 200618 yr Well isn´t he cheating on jenny??? He has an open relationship with his boyfriend. Not for me, but each to their own...
July 23, 200618 yr The shame for me is that we have such a scumbag paper in this country, with such low-life journalists and reporters working for it. Having said that, I do think George is on a roller coaster ride to destruction at the moment Agree re the paper. I am a big George Micheal fan but didn't bother to read the article. I like him for his music, not his private life.
July 24, 200618 yr Agree re the paper. I am a big George Micheal fan but didn't bother to read the article. I like him for his music, not his private life. I agree too. Irrespective of what George does in his private life, he is a great singer and entertainer. That's what should be of importance to his fans. Of which I am one.
July 24, 200618 yr Only one question: isn't he supposed to have a boyfriend ? :o :o :o LifeLight He does, but they have an open relationship. Not my sort of thing, but if it keeps them happy... -_-
July 24, 200618 yr When the bathroom "incident" happend, they were already together... Ok, let's say it's an open relationship... I can't get it, but fair with his boyfrind who can stand all of this ! :o LifeLight
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