He can get as good as he gives, however, as evidenced by the replies from Moloko frontwoman Róisín Murphy, who has expressed scepticism about the wisdom of giving children puberty blockers. “You’re just beyond horrible, George. All that nasty, nasty b—-iness is coming back to you,” she wrote. “I remember the first time we met in Miami, and the first thing you said to me was, ‘Oh, you’re not as pretty as I thought you were.’ I was young, and you made me feel ashamed in front of a lot of people. Why? You have grifted all these years with such little talent and zero charm. Now, time’s up.”
George has, in recent years, insisted that he had changed his ways. “As a kid, I was very gregarious and friendly,” he told The New York Times in 2023, “but fame kind of knocks [that] out of you a bit.” Or, as we shall see when looking at his biggest feuds, a lot.
Madonna
Some of George’s most scabrous comments over the years have been directed at Madonna, another icon of the 1980s. He has described Madge as being a “vile, hideous human being with no redeeming qualities” and, when she was on the cover of Vanity Fair in 1991, looking a bit like Marilyn Monroe, George said that comparing the two women was like “comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus”.
