Some little snippets to go with some of the pictures ...

So this is why Culture Club have been keeping such a low profile lately. This little snap of Marilyn and his new manager Diana Ross was apparently taken by Boy George. (Hmmm . . . Ed.) Nice one George, but don’t give up the day job.

"I adore this coat. I bought it in New York. It cost me about £ 750 but it’s designed by Kenzo and made out of pure cashmere. I love the feel of the material against my skin – this is my favourite way of wearing it. The hat I picked up for £ 7.50 at Hyper Hyper."

"This is my naff outfit. Well, the dungarees are really quite fabulous or rather they will be when I’ve finished with them. I haven’t had the time to tart them up but I’m going to sew on sequins and narrow the legs. At the moment they’re dreadful. I’d never wear them out like this."

L-R: Someone Who Shouldn’t Be In The Photo Looking Through Her Bag, Angela Hammond from Cheam, and ol’ Dodgychops himself, Marilyn. Angela claims this picture was taken outside Radio 1, and Maz came out "just so I could have my photo taken with him." What a sweetie . . .

MARILYN, November 3, Scorpio

Likes: "My lips, because I love sucking (straws), and Jamaica, ‘cause it’s so relaxed and friendly."

Dislikes: "The shakes & dark hidey holes, and Tom Bailey’s dancing."

Check out his new single on January 13, Cry and Be Free, on Phonogram.

A cauldron bubbles over with confetti to represent ‘trapped feelings overflowing like petals in the air’. And when MARILYN lies down in his bedroom, alone and lonely, a choir appears behind him ‘because no matter how lonely you sometimes feel, there’s always someone there.’

But MARILYN had to struggle to look at peace with nature when he walked along the beach at Beachy Head, Sussex. ‘It was ten below zero,’ laughs MARILYN, ‘and rain was pouring horizontally right into my face!’

With the gospel feel of the song you’d expect there to be a religious setting somewhere, and next time we see MARILYN in bed, it’s inside a sacred house!

‘It doesn’t matter what religion it represents, I think church is one place where people have to be honest with themselves. I could never lie in church!’

Cry And Be Free wasn’t written with anyone in mind, MARILYN explains. ‘It’s for everyone. Everyone can see something in it that applies to them’.

Life gets stranger by the millisecond. After last week’s oddity with Jonathan King and Smanfer Fox, this week we stumbled into some groovy night club or other and bumped into well-known heartthrob MARILYN and the former Jenny Belle Star … snogging. No messing. Real kissing. No coming up for air or anything, but lips locked as one. No, we’ve no idea where they met or what they’ve got in common, but we’re sure a bottle of something cold and bubbly might have been involved somewhere along the line. As a matter of factual interest, Jenny now sings with groovy soul funsters Dance Like A Mother, who recently made a record with Virgin and a video taking the piss out of Robert Palmer. MARILYN isn’t in the group, but likes a nice party.