George Michael Fears Returning To US

George Michael tells BBC News he can no longer return to his home in the US that he shares with long-term lover gay Kenny Goss after his controversial video ‘Shoot the Dog’ caused a huge controversy in the country, mostly due to an article in the New York Post that branded him a “past-his-prime pop pervert.” “Americans are very reactionary right now and I – because of that article – cannot return to America, even though my partner lives there,” he said. “It’s been very heavily inferred that I was actually an al-Qaeda sympathizer, that somehow I thought that there was something not horrific and shocking and undeserved about the attacks on 11 September.” Read more.