{"id":167171,"date":"2010-01-11T19:57:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T00:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=88303"},"modified":"2010-01-11T19:57:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T00:57:42","slug":"boy-george-lady-gaga-opening-act-o2-arena-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/167171","title":{"rendered":"Boy George Lady Gaga Opening Act O2 Arena London"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lady Gaga will be sharing the stage with a very special guest when she kicks off the U.K. leg of her Fame Monster Tour in London later this month — her childhood musical idol Boy George! <\/p>\n

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The “Poker Face” hitmaker has hired the ’80s pop icon to support her on tour in Britain next month. The former Culture Club singer will perform alongside the Gaga during her dates at the O2 Arena, the songstress said Monday.<\/p>\n

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“I didn’t fit in at high school, I wanted to be like Boy George and I felt like a freak. So now I like to create this atmosphere for my fans where they feel like they have a freak in me to hang out with, and they don’t feel alone.”<\/em> Gaga explained of her admiration for the crooner last year.<\/p>\n

The trouble-prone star is currently on probation after being imprisoned last year for holding a male escort hostage in his flat. He must seek permission from the court before accepting any job offers, and was recently banned from starring in the last season the UK reality show Celebrity Big Brother<\/em>. <\/p>\n

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Lady Gaga will be sharing the stage with a very special guest when she kicks off the U.K. leg of her Fame Monster Tour in London later this month — her childhood musical idol Boy George! The “Poker Face” hitmaker has hired the ’80s pop icon to support her on tour in Britain next month. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}