Andrew Ridgeley on Wham!, ‘vile’ tabloids and George Michael: ‘He never saw himself growing old’

Andrew Ridgeley was, for many years, the big Eighties popstar who never spoke. George Michael was a persona: part of Yog, but it wasn’t the person, it was the artist.” open image in gallery ‘He remained Yog forever more’: Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael during their time in Wham! There were several musicians in Jack’s family, so quite how he failed to recognise that his son had one of the best voices in music…” open image in gallery George Michael in Wham! “If they really knew what they were doing, they’d be making the records rather than talking about them.” I ask whether the stories about “Randy Andy” were put about by Wham’s people in order to take the heat off George, who was, Ridgeley says, “picking up whoever he liked in places that weren’t on the paparazzi radar”. open image in gallery George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in Netflix’s ‘Wham!'