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In the upcoming Netflix documentary focusing connected the 80s’ popular sensation Wham!, a spotlight shines brightly connected George Michael’s singular life. The film, titled Wham!, traces the travel of George and his chap co-founder, Andrew Ridgeley, from being schoolmates to becoming internationally acclaimed popular stars erstwhile they formed the iconic set successful 1981. Through this intimate exploration, including antecedently unseen footage, viewers get a person look astatine the dynamic duo down unforgettable chart-toppers similar “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” and “Careless Whisper.” The authoritative trailer was posted connected some George’s Instagram and Andrew’s Instagram, arsenic well.
While the movie focuses connected the aboriginal days of George’s popular prima success, helium would spell connected to person a monolithic solo career, opening with the merchandise of 1987’s Faith album. Almost a decennary later, the “I Want Your Sex” vocalist came retired arsenic gay, ending years-long speculation astir his sexuality. “I spent the archetypal fractional of my vocation being accused of being cheery erstwhile I hadn’t had thing similar a cheery relationship. In fact, I was 27 earlier that happened to me,” helium told CNN in 1998, a fewer days aft helium was arrested astatine a Beverly Hills parkland for engaging successful a ‘lewd act’ with an undercover constabulary officer. “By the clip I’d benignant of worked retired what it was and I’d stopped having relationships with women, I was conscionable truthful indignant astir the mode I had been treated until then, I conscionable thought, well, I’ll conscionable clasp connected to this. They [the media] don’t request to cognize But, you know, this is arsenic bully a clip arsenic any.” helium added.
George, who had been antecedently linked with constitution creator Kathy Jeung and histrion Brooke Shields, insisted that helium was ne'er dishonest with his sexuality. “I bash privation radical to cognize that the songs that I wrote erstwhile I was with women were truly astir women, and the songs I person written since person been reasonably evidently astir men,” helium added to CNN.
Following his coming out, George freely and proudly dated a fistful of handsome men earlier his tragic death successful 2016. Let’s conscionable the guys fortunate capable to person known George, below.
Anselmo Feleppa
George Michael’s archetypal emotion was Anselmo Feleppa. (Collect/Mirrorpix/Newscom/The Mega Agency)
George would spell connected to telephone Anselmo Feleppa the “first person” helium “ever loved.” Their little emotion matter began successful 1990 erstwhile Anselmo, a Brazilian formal designer, came to 1 of George’s concerts. The vocalist spotted “a truly cute guy” successful the crowd, and said “he was truthful distracting I really avoided that extremity of the stage,” per his 2009 Huffington Post interview. Once Anselmo made it backstage, helium changed George’s life. “It’s precise hard to beryllium arrogant of your sexuality erstwhile it hasn’t fixed you immoderate joy,” George explained. “But erstwhile you person recovered idiosyncratic you truly love… it’s not truthful tough.” He added that Anselmo “broke down my Victorian restraint, and truly showed maine however to live, however to relax, however to bask life.”
Sadly, six months into their romance, Anselmo discovered helium was HIV positive. “Try to ideate that you fought with your ain sexuality to the constituent that you’ve mislaid fractional of your twenties, and you’ve yet recovered a existent love, and six months successful it’s devastated,” George recalled to Huffington Post. “In 1991 it was truly terrifying news.”
After Anselmo’s died, the prima said helium entered a authorities of depression, which helium described arsenic “a heavy achromatic hole.” He added, “He was the archetypal idiosyncratic I had ever loved, and I discovered helium loved maine too.”
Kenny Goss
Kenny Goss and George Michael had a 13-year romance. (Shutterstock)
Michael’s adjacent large narration was with his partner Kenny Goss, and they were unneurotic for a whopping 13 years. In 2006, George dropped the bombshell quality that helium and Kenny were readying to necktie the knot successful a cozy ceremony. “I conjecture we’ll spell done the authoritative ineligible worldly and past propulsion an epic bash,” he spilled connected a British speech amusement called Parkinson, per People.“But don’t expect america to don wedding gowns! Let’s beryllium real, neither of america has the slayer bod for that!” On a much superior note, helium added, “I deliberation from a ineligible constituent of presumption it’s indispensable to person the aforesaid safeguards that consecutive couples have. We’ve been unneurotic for 10 years. I deliberation we’re entitled to that.”
But alas, their plans for beatified matrimony ne'er materialized. Fast guardant to 2011 erstwhile George fto it gaffe during a performance that helium and Kenny had called it quits implicit 2 years prior. “The information is my emotion beingness has been a batch much turbulent than I person fto on,” helium said during a show astatine the Prague State Opera, per People.
At the clip of George’s death connected Christmas Day 2016, Kenny told The Dallas Morning News, “We conscionable had a truly good, saccharine relationship. We weren’t adjacent huffy astatine each different oregon thing similar that. He was genuinely the emotion of my life. And I deliberation I was the emotion of his life.”
Fadi Fawaz
George Michael and Fadi Fawaz. (Shutterstock)
Around 2012, George and his fellow astatine the time, Lebanese/Australian decorator Fadi Fawaz, were posting snaps of themselves to their social media accounts. The mates appeared to beryllium enjoying tropical vacations near and right.
Sadly, Fadi, who met George successful 2009 aft the singer’s divided from his semipermanent spouse Kenny, recovered George lifeless successful furniture connected Christmas greeting successful 2016. At the time, Fadi tweeted, “Its a xmas one volition ne'er hide uncovering your spouse dormant peacefully successful furniture archetypal happening successful the morning.. I volition ne'er halt missing you xx.”
Three days later, Fadi did an interrogation with The Daily Telegraph and elaborate much astir the harrowing experience. “We were expected to beryllium going for Christmas lunch. I went astir determination to aftermath him up and helium was conscionable gone, lying peacefully successful bed,” the hairstylist explained. “Now everything is ruined. I privation radical to retrieve him the mode helium was, helium was a beauteous person.”
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