Reputation Management Online

Boy oh boy! Boy George will have to return the 200,000 pounds he got as fee to enter Celebrity Big Brother. A court has ruled against the disgraced star’s participation in the show. Boy George was sentenced for 15 months for imprisoning a Norwegian in shackles and assaulting him and is still under probation.

Though the singer managed to get an early release, his attempt at getting back into celebrity life was quashed with this court order. Talk about being in the doldrums of reputation… Boy George sure needs to be back in the spotlight, however, to actually be in a TV show where people watch you like a lab rat, could have backfired and we will never know how it would have panned. I guess the courts did not want to condone the ‘celebrity’ tag being given to someone who is still on probation and wearing a tag.

Boy George needs serious celebrity reputation management and that’s a nobrainer; he needs to be making an example of his life against cocaine addiction and erratic behavior. Connect to real people on Twitter and Facebook and slowly build his reputation back. Reality shows may not be such a great idea and MC Hammer, Heidi Fleiss and the rest who are in CBB should wonder why they have been selected for the show.

For Boy George the ban may have been the right thing to have happened, but time to work on some great online reputation re-building is the way ahead for him to keep his celebrity tag.