George Michael pulled out of a British Broadcasting Corporation documentary after learning producers planned to revisit his 1998 arrest for masturbating with a cop in a Los Angeles park toilet.
The filmmakers planned to follow Michael and lover Kenny Goss for four months, chronicling their lives in the wake of Michael’s controversial new record, Shoot The Dog.
Among much else, the record and video portray George W. Bush as an imbecile and British Prime Minister Tony Blair as Bush’s obedient dog. A different scene shows them as boyfriends.
Michael was strongly denounced in some U.S. media outlets because of the record’s content, and vowed to stay abroad for a time out of fear he would be physically attacked in America.