Ding dong, the witches are dead! Well, at least they are now the “minority party” in one house of Congress. So, “Woo Hoo!” for the Dems. I sure hope they don’t screw this up. If there’s one thing Reps are good at is slinging mud and generally being a pain in the ass, so they may be down but not out.
More to come…
Last night I was being a total guy and compulsively channel surfing (which drives J nuts), and I was bouncing between the news channels and VH1 — who had one of those best ’80s artists countdown type of things.
Eventually and inevitably the spotlight turned to that two-album wonder, Wham1 Yeah, the song was “Wake Me Up (Before You Go Go),” and they showed parts of the video with celebrity-has been commentary from Debbie Gibson who thought it was the best pop song ever written. Whatever.
Okay, so we all know that George Michael is gay, right? Right? If not, here’s an unambiguous message: GEORGE MICHAEL IS GAY. But what of the other half of Wham! That would be Andrew Ridgeley, the guy who played guitar and sort of sang. Gay? Nope. Or to put it bluntly: ANDREW RIDGELEY IS STRAIGHT.
What amazes me is that Ridgeley is married to a member of Bananarama (Keren Woodward). Huh! wha? On its face it looks perfectly logical. A member of one of the biggest pop groups of the ’80s marries a member of a moderately popular bubblegum group of the 80s. But for some reason, I don’t know, maybe it’s the video for “Wake Me Up” (or the picture on the left) but I really thought Andrew was gay, too.
Nowadays, he sports a silver bullet, and looks like a dad who loves football, British beer, and makes a great grilled halibut.
But fear not kids. If you want to get your Wham! on, it seems there’s supposed to be some kind of reunion in December? But with George Michael’s pot problems, maybe not.
–PK
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I never thought Andrew Ridgley was gay. I always thought he was quite cute and straight. George Michael, on the other hand, holding his guitar and swinging his not-so-cute bum in the camera lens, screamed gay to me.
I agree with ML. I thought Andrew Ridgley was cute too, but knew George Michael was gay. I loved WHAM and I do have the best of George Michael……don’t spread that around though. 😉
We knew George was gay and Andrew was straight. And we didn’t care George was gay. He sure looked good in those jeans. Not so much in the short shorts 😉
I haven’t yet revealed this on my website, but Jefito can vouch for me, sadly – I am the resident Wham! and George Michael expert. And as everyone else has said, Andrew was not gay – he just was an unfortunate fashion victim. I saw a recent documentary where GM said that he always found it funny that people thought him and Andrew were sleeping together, “because Andrew is totally not my type.”
Oh, and the Wham! reunion isn’t happening – just a rumor. (“I heard a rumor?” Get it? Bananarama? sigh)
Laughing at Jason.
To be honest, I wasn’t sure about either one of them when I was younger, but if I would have had to pick which one was gay, I would have gone Andrew. For some reason, I thought Nick Taylor of DD was gay too, but nope.
Would that be because GM has legal troubles with drugs, or was the Wham! rumor of a reunion just a rumor?
I was never a Wham! fan, so that’s why I never followed the “Is he, or isn’t he” gossip.
I never even thought about it, but if I had, I would have assumed they were a couple.
I do remember when I lived with my ex-roomie, Troy…GM had grown in the beard ala Miami Vice, and I said that I didn’t like that look (still don’t, even on the Lost hunks…). Troy said that it was a very gay look, like that was supposed to make me change my mind and say, “Oh, well, if it’s a gay look, then I love it!”. Nope, a bad look is a bad look to me.
Darn! My “Gay-dar” was wrong. I thought he was gay too! It’s so freaking hard to tell these days with “Metrosexuals” all over the place. Love WHAM, tough.
I don’t think I ever thought about that sort of thing back in my Wham! days (I was in 6th grade for goodness sake). Of course I was generally naive to the happenings of the world that were not directly in my bubble.
George was a walking billboard for being gay. Spotted it way back then. I love Wham. We still listen to them .