When will Boy George grow up?

We all know that plenty of gay men have some of the Peter Pan syndrome of never wanting to grow up. I've been afflicted with it from time to time if truth be told. But hey, I don't chain people up to the wall - not even if they wanted me to.

But 47-year-old Boy George allegedly does. He was charged this week with false imprisonment after allegedly chaining a male escort to a wall in his flat as a sex slave. Out on bail, George is scheduled to appear in court next Thursday.

Auden Carlsen, a 28-year-old Norwegian escort, claims he was grabbed and chained up by George and another man after the singer invited him back to his home in Shoreditch, east London, to pose for photographs in April. Instead, the former lead singer of Culture Club allegedly produced whips and sex toys and said: "Now you'll get what you deserve." Carlsen musta been wondering, "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" (Sorry, could not resist). He told police he escaped after wrenching a hook out of the wall.

This is far from George's first brush with the law: Last year, he was sentenced to community service and ordered to sweep the streets of New York City after he admitted wasting police time by falsely reporting a burglary at his Manhattan apartment. Officers who responded to the call found cocaine there.

Like I said, time to GROW UP!