Boy George tied up in knots

More misery for Boy George this morning, with a "male escort" claiming that George chained him to the wall and whipped him with sex toys.

Auden Carlsen tells The Sun that he agreed to go to George's flat after being contacted through Gaydar - but he insists that he only went, at midnight, to "pose for photos" and not "as an escort". As if "as an escort" wasn't already a euphemism - as in "I'm not behaving like an escort on a first date."

Carlsen's testimony is a little florid:

“It’s ironic that his biggest hit was Do You Really Want To Hurt Me? — because I’m sure he did want to hurt me.

“I was convinced I was going to die.”

So, you're convinced you have just escaped being murdered and yet you're making little puns up for the paper about it?

Carlsen said: “George said he was popping out for milk at 5am. I heard him come back and I walked into his bedroom wearing just my white underpants and a T-shirt. I was jumped on by George and another man.

“George handcuffed me to a hook by the bed as they held me down.”

He said George got rid of the blond man then produced a box of whips and sex toys — telling him: “Now you’ll get what you deserve.”

Apparently, Carlsen only survived this death-by-dildo by "pulling a hook from the wall" and running to a nearby newsagent to raise the alarm.

The Sun reports that George "was taken to a police station" - curiously, no suggestion he was arrested and, even more curiously, no quote from a police spokesperson to stack up the story.