Boy George celebrates early jail release
Boy George celebrated his early release from prison with some slap-up food including cakes and pastries.
The former Culture Club singer, who was jailed for 15 months in January for attacking a male escort, left Edmunds Hill Prison in Suffolk yesterday.
Sporting a beard and shaved hair, he was greeted by friends and waved to waiting media before being driven home to Hampstead in north London, where gifts of food were delivered to mark the occasion.
The star, whose real name is George O’Dowd, is expected to wear a tag during the remaining 11 months of his sentence.
He was convicted of false imprisonment after handcuffing Norwegian Audun Carlsen to a wall and beating him with a metal chain during a drug-fuelled naked photoshoot at his home.
O’Dowd, 47, shot to fame in the early 1980s with a string of Culture Club hits including 'Karma Chameleon'. He went on to launch a solo career before reinventing himself as a top DJ.
In 2006 he was given community service in New York after pleading guilty to falsely reporting a burglary at his apartment in the city.
