Andrew Ridgeley was relieved to escape scrutiny after Wham!
A bit of sex, a bit of rock’n’roll, but, at that point, no drugs. Yet I had always felt my private life was my business — celebrity was extremely unwelcome.”Asked if the end of Wham! was a relief in that respect, he replied:“Very much. It wasn’t important for me to have fame.”The I'm Your Man hitmaker reflected on Wham!'s famous tour of China - which is captured in a new documentary - and admitted he mainly misses spending so much time with his "best friend".Discussing the "particularly poignant" moments in the Wham!
- ▪A bit of sex, a bit of rock’n’roll, but, at that point, no drugs.
- ▪Yet I had always felt my private life was my business — celebrity was extremely unwelcome.”Asked if the end of Wham! was a relief in that respect, he replied:“Very much.
- ▪It wasn’t important for me to have fame.”The I'm Your Man hitmaker reflected on Wham!'s famous tour of China - which is captured in a new documentary - and admitted he mainly misses spending so much time with his "best friend".Discussing th
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Camera IconAndrew Ridgeley Credit: BANG - Entertainment NewsAndrew Ridgeley was relieved to escape scrutiny after Wham!BANG - Entertainment NewsBang Showbiz26 July 2026, 3:04pmCopy linkShare storyAndrew Ridgeley was "glad to get away" from Wham!'s fame.The 63-year-old singer admitted it was an "immense relief" not to be subjected to daily media scrutiny after the group split in 1986, even though he admitted he hadn't "helped" himself with his exploits at the time.He told Sunday Times Culture magazine: "I’d had a very antagonistic relationship with [the press] for a while.“I had done inadvisable things and been photographed doing them — nothing that would land me into the clutches of the police, but boisterousness at an inadvisable level.
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