TV drama to explore rise of Boy George's Culture Club

STARS of a new TV drama about former chart stars Culture Club have turned back the clock nearly 30 years.

Boy George himself helped to ensure the uncanny accuracy by loaning his old outfits from the group's heyday as well as making new prints to recreate the clothing.

Gavin And Stacey star Mathew Horne is among the stars of the BBC2 drama Worried About The Boy, to be screened next month as part of an Eighties season.

He plays Jon Moss, drummer with the band who briefly dominated the charts on both sides of the Atlantic with hits such as Karma Chameleon and Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?

The film tells the story of a young Boy George as he became a huge star with his androgynous "gender-bender" look.

Actor Douglas Booth, who plays George, revealed the singer contacted him out of the blue and warned him not to be "camp". George contacted him via Facebook when the news emerged that he had been cast.

Christine Bateman and Donald McInnes, who worked on Booth's hair and make-up, have been friends of George for many years, and worked on up to five make-up changes a day for the film which also features Marc Warren as Visage frontman Steve Strange, and League of Gentlemen star Mark Gatiss as the late Malcolm McLaren.