GEORGE EX: I’LL NEVER GET OVER LAST XMAS
Corden and his crew hit Town Kenny Goss can’t face watching tribute show
I’ve been in the UK for a few weeks to do panto and the main thing I want for Christmas is to see my wife Kristina and our three children, Casey, Jesse and Indiana – they’re back in LA, where we now live.
I’m playing Prince Benedict in Snow White and it’s really magical, with snow coming down in the theatre and a great cast. Seeing the expressions of the kids in the audience is priceless.
My family are flying over just before the big day and I’ll see them late on Christmas Eve at my parents’ house in Surrey.
So that will be my Christmas present – I’m beside myself thinking about it now. I don’t want anything material, I just want cuddles from my kids.
My ideal Christmas Day is a properly traditional one. My mum loves Christmas so she will be in her element and it will be wonderful.
We’ll have Phil Spector’s Christmas Album playing and we’ll spend hours opening presents for all the kids in the family.
I am a nightmare to buy presents for but I’d say I’m that typical man who wants every gadget. ■■Chesney is appearing in Snow White at the Pavilion Theatre in Worthing, Surrey, until January 1. GEORGE Michael’s griefstricken ex Kenny Goss can’t bear to watch a TV show about the late singer.
The American, who was George’s partner for 13 years until 2011, is still fighting his distress over George’s death last Christmas. Kenny said: “I haven’t watched the Channel 4 Freedom documentary. It Pictures: MEDIAPUNCH/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK makes me think about him being gone.”
Kenny, 59, was invited to George’s intimate funeral and a private wake at the singer’s North London home.
In Freedom, George talks of FUNNYMAN James Corden is On The Town with actors Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron as they recreate classic movie clips on the streets of New York. Brit James, 39, leads the way as the trio mimic the 1949 Frank Sinatra movie about three sailor pals. James, filming for his Late Late Show in the US, also dons a frock and hair piece to play the Bearded Lady. It’s a nod to Hugh and Zac’s film The Greatest Showman, about circus star P. T. Barnum. But James does like to play the clown. first love Anselmo Feleppa, who died of an AIDs-related illness in 1993.
He says he lost faith in love and “never recovered”. Kenny, and George’s last boyfriend Fadi Fawaz, were not in the film which features Liam Gallagher, Ricky Gervais and Kate Moss. But Kenny paid his own tribute, adding: “What an incredible man.” Accounts show George earned £10 million for 2015 and 2016 in the lead up to his death at his Goring-onThames home at the age of 53.