George Michael in negative chat room scandal!!

Found on The Register on Saturday, 10 July 2004
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Blaming the media and the end of all that is good, George Michael decided this week to shut down the chat section of his web site. Nasty comments about Michael looking tubby, old and tired also played a role in the decision, but Michael stressed that it was the media and the end of all that is good that were mostly to blame for the decision.

"I'm afraid that, having visited the forums on a regular basis over the past few months, simply to see how you guys thought the album/ interviews/promotion were going, I have decided to close them down," Michael or a bot purporting to be he of Wham! fame writes. "As many of you will know, much of my reasoning for the future is to stay away from the negativity of the media."

So while Michael is called "fat, tired and old" in some places, there is not a lot of negativity. Sadly, we checked. There really isn't much negativity at all. The chat forums are mostly loaded with poems and sex proposals for Michael.

Yes, hide from all negativity, create your own little bubble to live in. Being a celebrity does not mean everybody has to worship you. And if someone cannot take criticism, then he cannot get better. Perhaps we see the birth of a new Michael Jackson here, living on his Happyland Ranch. Well, I don't like their music anyway.