Boy George is desperate to start his music comeback - insisting he wants to remind people he's an "entertainer" following his stint in jail.

The British singer, real name George O'Dowd, was forced to carry out community service with New York's Department of Sanitation in 2006 stemming from his arrest for cocaine possession and falsely reporting a burglary the year before (05).

He went on to be jailed in London in January 2009 for the false imprisonment and assault of a male escort in 2007.

Probably over the last few years, if you'd have asked people exactly what I do, they probably would have said, 'Oh, he gets arrested a lot

Due to his conviction, O'Dowd was forced to turn down lucrative work on a U.K. reality show earlier this year (10) after a judge denied him permission to appear due to the terms of his probation. read more...