BOY Because of his musical abilities, George has become well-known.
Everything you need to know about the singer’s parents, Dinah and Jerry, as well as his upbringing, is provided below.
Who are Boy George’s mother Dinah O’Dowd and dad Jeremiah?
On June 14, 1961, George Alan O’Dowd was born in Barnehurst Hospital in Kent.
His parents, Jeremiah and Dinah O’Dowd, are both of Irish descent.
George has a sister and five brothers.
Previously, Dinah has discussed the beatings she endured at the hands of Jeremiah, who passed away in 2003.
Boy George grew raised in a bustling Eltham, London, family.
He acknowledged being the “deranged” middle child who was significantly different from his siblings in a prior interview with The Guardian.
He said: “I’m the middle, needy, child. The middle child is always deranged. My brother Kevin, who was born the year after me, was born with tapeworm and nearly died.
“For about two years I was kind of not that important. I don’t know whether that had a profound effect on me.
“All I remember about being a child is being quite independent. I used to go off a lot and walk for miles and, from about 11, I remember discovering where David Bowie lived and I used to go and sit outside his house.
“I wasn’t interested in the sort of things my brothers were interested in. They liked Farrah Fawcett-Majors and beautiful girls and I liked Bowie, jewellery and Busby Berkeley.
“Family to me is stability, it’s reliability.
“Yes, it’s often dysfunctional but I love my family very much and I’m really grateful that I’ve got a big family because there’s always somebody who can pull you back to earth – always somebody to remind you who you really are. And that is so important.”
In her book Cry Salty Tears, Dinah O’Dowd described the torture George’s father had inflicted upon her.
In the book’s poignant foreword, the hitmaker describes asking with the author to take him away from his abusive father.
“As a bratty teenager, I am ashamed to say that I started to think of Mum as weak because I couldn’t understand why she stayed in such a destructive marriage,” he said.
“Once I grew up a bit, I realised that Mum had stuck out the marriage for her kids and because she truly loved my father and believed in the sanctity of marriage.”
