Fans of the late George Michael have voiced their disapproval on social media regarding Channel 5’s latest documentary supposedly to pay tribute to his ‘last days’.
Andrew Ridgeley who performed a Wham! tribute at this year’s BRIT Awards also took to Twitter to share his thoughts on the Channel 5 documentary.
The musician tweeted at Channel 5 across two tweets saying: “2 conceive such a sensationalist & mucky piece of voyeurism may be par 4 the course for u, the decision to air b4 GM’s funeral is insensitive, contemptuous & reprehensible. U might have the had decency 2 schedule post funeral & after a respectful period.”
Read the full tweets below.
½ @channel5_tv 2 conceive such a sensationalist & mucky piece of voyeurism may be par 4 the course for u, the decision to air b4 GM’s https://t.co/z50kNd4vZf
— Andrew Ridgeley (@ajridgeley) March 23, 2017
2/2 funeral is insensitive, contemptuous & reprehensible. U might have the had decency 2 schedule post funeral & after a respectful period https://t.co/z50kNd4vZf
— Andrew Ridgeley (@ajridgeley) March 23, 2017
Wham! And George Michael fans have stated that they felt the documentary was “disrespectful“, “trash” and even “homophobic“. It was also pointed out that information had been gathered by tabloid journalists and not from anyone who was actually close to the singer.
channel 5 doc made me really angry at portrayal of #GeorgeMichael, who in contrast to what the disgusting, gutter press screamed, was a +
— Mog | Sleepover stan (@esc_dinosaurs) March 23, 2017
Well that’s a hour of my life I’ll never get back, wasted watching #channel5 trash. George deserved better #trash #georgemichael
— Jen (@Lovell23Lovell) March 23, 2017
How Channel 5 have stretched this to an hour, is a mystery.
Nice of them to just concentrate on speculation and The Sun#georgemichael— Trevor Absolom (@TrevorAbsolom) March 23, 2017
#Ch5 in the gutter like #Sun Knew was gonna be trash but wanted to see the #homophobic crap #GeorgeMichael had to endure. Time to avoid ch5
— Graham (@Grahms) March 23, 2017
@channel5_tv this isn’t #georgemichael last days programme. It’s digging up the dirt. Very distasteful and disrespectful
— Nicki Bidgood (@NicolaBidgood) March 23, 2017
Carol Malone & Kelvin MacKenzie trying to justify bullying George Michael for years, revolting parasites they are #LastDaysOfGeorgeMichael
— Tim Stoner (@stonertim) March 23, 2017
Earlier this month the cause of George Michael’s death was disclosed. Read more about that here.
