Sarah Michelle Gellar mixes up her Georges, tweets tribute to Boy George

“I will never stop missing you xx”. In a statement to the Press Association, shared with The Irish Times, the charity’s founder, Dame Esther Rantzen, said George was an invaluable philanthropist who donated millions through the years. Until then there had been top 10 hits with “sexy” and “sexual” in their titles, but Michael’s was the first to reach such heights with just “sex” in its name. “I was truly one of his biggest fans #RIPBoyGeorge“. Michael reportedly died of heart failure.

“We were supposed to be going for Christmas lunch”.

Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, George Michael battled drug and alcohol addiction throughout his life and survived a serious bout with pneumonia in 2011, which left him unconscious – but it is not now clear if either are related to the singer’s death.

Speaking to Rolling Stonein 2014 about his competition in 1984, Boy George jokingly said, “When George Michael came along I was like, ‘He’s called George?”

Days after global pop star George Michael died at the age of 53, the singer’s partner spoke with the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph to open up about Michael’s sudden passing.

Madonna wrote in a post on Instagram accompanied by a video of her presenting Michael with an award. “All our love and sympathy to George Michael’s family”, the band Duran Duran, who were 1980s contemporaries of Wham!, said on their official Twitter account.

And sadly, he is one in an all-too long list of stars who have passed away in 2016, and just over the course of the last few days, more deaths have left the world in mourning.

Police are treating Michael’s passing as “unexplained but not suspicious”.

“Love & mercy to his family, friends and fans”.

Canadian musician Bryan Adams tweeted: “I can’t believe it”. “I want to say that I have no problem with people knowing that I’m in a relationship with a man right now. I’m heartbroken. I loved him so much and will miss him for the rest of my life”, Andros continued.

“The family would ask that their privacy be respected at this hard and emotional time”.

Michael Brown, a guitarist who worked with George Michael about ten years ago, said the two regularly prayed together.