'He was NOT tragic!' Shirlie Kemp 'angered' by how people remember George Michael
Shirlie Kemp gets "angry" when people tell her that George Michael was "ready to die." The 61-year-old star struck up a close friendship with the 'Careless Whisper' singer - who died on Christmas Day 2016 at the age of 53 - when she and Helen 'Pepsi' DeMacque served as backing vocalists during his time in Wham! alongside Andrew Ridgeley in the 1980s and is "insulted" by those who remember the pop star as a "sad recluse." She told The Times: "It’s so insulting to say George was ready to die and it makes me so angry when these people crawl out from the woodwork and say these things. Why would yo...