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Pete Burns won’t be
spinning right round in gay pride line-up
21 May 2008- UK- A
North-East gay, lesbian and bisexual festival has dumped Celebrity Big Brother
star Pete Burns after he stormed out of a gay pride event in the Canary Islands.
The singer, who rose to fame with
1980s band Dead or Alive, refused to play at the Gran Canaria Gay Pride Festival
and is reported to have destroyed his hotel room shortly after.
It is claimed that the
48-year-old stormed out of the Maspalomas event last week after hearing another
band singing a cover of his smash hit song, You Spin Me Round (Like A Record),
which is still a dance-floor favourite.
Following the spat, Burns parted
company with his booking agents Create Music, who had booked him to play the
Rainbowfest in Aberdeen on July 5.
But festival organisers have
decided against re-booking the star through his new agent.
“We have decided that we don’t
want to go through similar issues and therefore are not booking him through his
new agent,” a spokesman for the festival said.
Burns launched himself back into
the public eye with his appearance on last Celebrity Big Brother 2006, where he
starred alongside comedian Michael Barrymore, MP George Galloway and US
basketball star Dennis Rodman.
He has been replaced at
Rainbowfest by The Original Bucks Fizz, who won the 1981 Eurovision Song
Contest.
They will be joined by dance
favourite Booty Love, who have had two top 10 hits in the last year. Also on the
bill is So Solid Crew member Lisa Maffia
The family event, which is
organised by Aberdeen’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, takes
place at Queen’s Links.
It will be part hosted by Jan
Hamilton, the Stonehaven soldier who became the first officer in the armed
forces to have a sex change. As Ian Hamilton, the 43-year-old served in Northern
Ireland, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq but last year became Jan, and has since
featured in a TV documentary.
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