Our lives with Boy George / TV TIMES - 23-29 june 84
Surrounded by exquisite hats, he sets in a velvet sofa making a fuss about who ate the last of his marshmallow bunnies, while his beautiful french assistant pretendes to take him seriosly.
Visitors are invited to deep a finger in a sickly white goo called Fluffy - a junk food he claims to relish.
He says : " He says squatting is squalid existence, but it was the fun place to be at this time
It was full of people involved in creative pur-suits. So many of them have done well but at the time no one thought much about the future "What are you going to wear this evening ?" would start again at 4pm. It was like Cliff Richard going on Summer Holiday - this sort of athmosphere. We all dressed up, but George was the most over-the-top dresser of the lot.
He is one of the most star-like people that I have ever meet. I never doubted that he would be a successful."
Stephen had a workroom at the squatt where he made hats. Now he was West End premises and his clients include the Princess of Walles, Frecnch Fashion Haouses, and of course, Boy George.
Stephen was the only squatter with a car "My dear little Mini. I never went out without at least six people crimmed in too it. I remember driving George around while he sat in the back seat singing. I realized that he had a wonderful voice. We all said at this time he should be making his linving by singing. But I dont think the time is right, and George was a clever boy, so he waited until it was"
Stephen thinks that a lot of people look back in their days in squat with rose-coloured spectacles. "they tend to forget the umpleasant side of it and just remember the good times. I know that I couldnt live like that again and I dont think George could either. One gets more jaundiced as the years pass."
Our lives with Boy George
TV TIMES - 23-29 june 1984
