Boy George's mother threatened to "disown" him if he went on 'Celebrity Big Brother'.
Boy George
The Culture Club star admitted he once considered appearing on the reality show and heading into the famous house, but his mum Dinah O'Dowd quickly shut down any possibility of it actually happening.
Appearing on ITV's 'The Jonathan Ross Show', he says: "I don’t really like reality. I spent the last years avoiding it a lot.
"I think you have to be careful what you do on TV. When I was for a minute thinking about going on 'Big Brother', my mum said, ‘If you go on that show I will disown you.’ So I stopped.”
Although many stars do appear on reality shows and open up about their personal lives, Boy George insisted it's also necessary to "have some privacy".
He added: "When you’re a celebrity or a star, you need to have some privacy, some secrets. People can’t know you’re boring."
The 59-year-old singer also opened up on an upcoming film about his life, and revealed an advert has been sent out for a young actor to portray him.
He said: "That’ll be interesting to see how they do it. I’m not particularly precious about my past. I’m not that person. That person is someone I created.
"I treat Boy George from the 80s as a sort of cartoon character. I do a lot of paintings of Boy George as I think of him as an invention… He’s a different person.
"Course it was me. 100 per cent me. I was from a generation, we used to say ‘we’re not dressed up for stage, we’re dressed up for life.' "
Tagged in Boy George