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Originally known for his global hit You Spin Me Round, 80s electro-pop icon Pete Burns is now more famous for his love of plastic surgery and brutal telling-it-like-it-is attitude.
Originally known for his global hit You Spin Me Round, 80s electro-pop icon Pete Burns is now more famous for his love of plastic surgery and brutal telling-it-like-it-is attitude.
After his appearance on Celebrity Big Brother, his career was re-launched and primed for success. But within months of finishing the show, Burns would see his world unravel, finding him fighting bankruptcy, his boyfriend and the legal system. After several arrests for threatening and violent behaviour involving incidents with his then estranged boyfriend, he was jailed for two months for breaking bail conditions.
This documentary follows Burns from his first day of release, when he is ordered by the courts to reside with an unknown obsessive fan responsible for bailing him out, to the gradual process of picking up the pieces of his shattered life.
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Thursday, January 25, 2007 03:39 AM
The Drudge Report today includes the story of Pete Burns suing a plastic surgeon for approx $2 million for ruining his mouth, his career, and his life. It's hardly a secret that Burns has had a few cosmetic alterations to his countenance (more than 100, actually), but a procedure to remove his lip implants resulted in a mutilation that left his top lip hanging off and, says Burns, "the only option was to amputate my lips." He's currently in consultations for corrective surgery in Italy, but this is just the latest in a laundry list of problems Burns has had since he was fronting the band Dead or Alive, including losing his home, being imprisoned for beating up his boyfriend, and being obligated to live with the stranger who paid his bail. That sometimes hilarious experience, not so incidentally, was the subject of the WOW documentary Pete Burns Unspun for Channel 4 in the UK, and is now available for purchase on WOW TV.
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Sunday, January 21, 2007 08:56 PM
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Famously known for the '80s hit “You Spin Me Round,” Pete Burns was the frontman for the band Dead or Alive, which sold over 20 million records worldwide. After a stint on UK Celebrity Big Brother, Burns’s career was reenergized, but within a few months of finishing the show, he found himself fighting bankruptcy, his boyfriend, and the law.
This documentary follows Burns after his release from prison, when he is put in the custody of the deranged fan responsible for bailing him out. This is not a joke. This is not staged. This is reality. It’s must-see TV!
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