Gately 1976-2009
Mon, 30/11/2009 - 10:02 by HM writer

A private evening of music and tributes was held at London's Palace Theatre in memory of Stephen Gately yesterday evening, and guests included exisitng members of Boyzone and Gately's husband, who had helped organise the event, Andrew Cowles...

The evening was hosted by Christopher Biggins, Sir Ian McKellan was due to read poetry and performers included Beverley Knight and Liz McClarnon.

Meanwhile, Mikey, Ronan, Keith and Shane were said to be horrified, and we're not too surprised, following the detailed story Georgi Dochev, the 25-year-old model who slept with Gately's husband on the day that he died, sold to the Sunday Mirror.

Dochev met Cowles and Gately on a night out on Majorca, before returning to Gately's apartment in the early hours.

In the kiss and tell, Dochev told how he twice went and had a cigarette on the sofa where Gately had passed out, and how on the second occasion he went back and slept with Cowles. While Gately could have already have died, from a build-up of fluid on the lungs.

He said:

"I smoked a cigarette on the sofa. I was sitting next to Stephen and I noticed he was in exactly the same position, sort of curled up with his face obscured by a cushion, but I didn't want to disturb him so I went back to bed.

 

"At 12 I got up and had another cigarette and Stephen was in the same position. I went into the other room where Andy had been sleeping. I was naked and he said to me 'you look cold, why don't you get into bed?'.

 

"One thing led to another and we had sex for about an hour. We couldn't have known Stephen was probably already dead."

A source said:

"The lads are horrified. It was a day for celebrating Steo's life - not dwelling on the night of his death. Everyone is just sick that this man is profiting from Stephen's death."

And the timing was a bit off but at least it wasn't the day before Gately's funeral, a la Moir...

Also at the memorial last night, Cherie Blair, Bruno Tonioli, Duncan James, Lisa Snowdon, Shane Ward, Kelly Hoppen and Christopher Dean.

 

  • What I don't understand is why someone who was in a boyband and died from an OD/alcoholic binge/whatever should attract such big column inches (there's a gag in there bursting to get out) and such celebs to an OTT pissup that the Irish seem to revel in.

    Steo. God, he wasn't a footballer (Keano, Deano, Paolio di Canioio, Decoio) and nor did any of you know him that bloody intimately. He was a gay singer in a band whose fanbase consisted of knickerwetting housewives and knickerwetting (for the wrong reasons) pensioners, get over it. Pleasant young people like Gately die every day, just show your respect at the time and move on. All this public gnashing and wailing is fucking irritating

    Blartmonster Mon, 30/11/2009 - 19:44
  • YES, BUT IT'S WHAT GAYS DO ALL THE TIME. THEY HAVE DRUGS. THEY GET DRUNK. THEY HAVE SEX WITH OTHER MEN. THAT IS WHY THEY CAN NEVER HAVE CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS, BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING CIVIL ABOUT GAYS.

    Thanks, Jan. Can't we just put that daft cunt out of her misery and demote her to writing for Now?

    mr_chopper Mon, 30/11/2009 - 16:33
  • Christ on a bike, where's the news here. Consenting adults may or may not have fucked each other in private, tabloid newspaper are a shower of cunts. Quelle surprise there eh.

    staples Mon, 30/11/2009 - 15:03
  • I have said it before and ill say it again.......the uk meeja are scum.

    grange Mon, 30/11/2009 - 13:22
  • Sorry I seem to have stumbled onto Daily Mail comments page by accident.

    shitthebed Mon, 30/11/2009 - 13:08
  • I'm sure. Its a old story. Steo explaned it all. And would he be so happy if al these things would have happend? I have enough of all the lies. Its makes me sick. Let Stephen rest in peace. And everyone that is close to him, the pain must be terrible. For me, I still miss him so much!!! And I always will love him and the boyz!!!

    Yt_Verbroekken Mon, 30/11/2009 - 12:57
  • Bit shitty to release the story on that particular day. But why are you all so sure that it's a lie? Is it so hard to believe that his husband (who once beat the shit out of him) might have been shagging another bloke while he was lying dead on the sofa? I think not... If anything his other half should be hiding in shame.

    NoKrugNoThanks. Mon, 30/11/2009 - 12:44
  • I like to use it a toilet paper because it really is a shitrag !

    Avalon Mon, 30/11/2009 - 12:15
  • The Sunday Mirror really are a bunch of cunts.

    fukyouyoufuk Mon, 30/11/2009 - 11:59
  • That sick person needed 6 weeks to come up with a story. And the Sunday Mirror must have giving him good money to let him tell 1 big lie. Not only the Irish are sick of it all. In Holland we are also. I will always love Steo. And let Dochev hope that I never run into him. No one will believe the garbage he told. Andrew, Steo's family and my Boyz you are all in my thoughts. I will always love you. I'm proud to be one of you!!!!

    Yt_Verbroekken Mon, 30/11/2009 - 11:51
  • Gary Anderson and Tom Worden, the Sunday Mirror "journalists" who presumably paid good money for this cheap crappy gossip piece, should be mindful that a lot of Irish people harbour grudges for a long time.

    pandakiller Mon, 30/11/2009 - 10:29
  • Gary Anderson and Tom Worden, the Sunday Mirror "journalists" who presumably paid good money for this cheap crappy gossip piece, should be mindful that a lot of Irish people harbour grudges for a long time.

    pandakiller Mon, 30/11/2009 - 10:29
  • That sick person needed 6 weeks to come up with a story. And the Sunday Mirror must have giving him good money to let him tell 1 big lie. Not only the Irish are sick of it all. In Holland we are also. I will always love Steo. And let Dochev hope that I never run into him. No one will believe the garbage he told. Andrew, Steo's family and my Boyz you are all in my thoughts. I will always love you. I'm proud to be one of you!!!!

    Yt_Verbroekken Mon, 30/11/2009 - 11:51
  • The Sunday Mirror really are a bunch of cunts.

    fukyouyoufuk Mon, 30/11/2009 - 11:59
  • I like to use it a toilet paper because it really is a shitrag !

    Avalon Mon, 30/11/2009 - 12:15
  • Bit shitty to release the story on that particular day. But why are you all so sure that it's a lie? Is it so hard to believe that his husband (who once beat the shit out of him) might have been shagging another bloke while he was lying dead on the sofa? I think not... If anything his other half should be hiding in shame.

    NoKrugNoThanks. Mon, 30/11/2009 - 12:44
  • I'm sure. Its a old story. Steo explaned it all. And would he be so happy if al these things would have happend? I have enough of all the lies. Its makes me sick. Let Stephen rest in peace. And everyone that is close to him, the pain must be terrible. For me, I still miss him so much!!! And I always will love him and the boyz!!!

    Yt_Verbroekken Mon, 30/11/2009 - 12:57
  • Sorry I seem to have stumbled onto Daily Mail comments page by accident.

    shitthebed Mon, 30/11/2009 - 13:08
  • I have said it before and ill say it again.......the uk meeja are scum.

    grange Mon, 30/11/2009 - 13:22
  • Christ on a bike, where's the news here. Consenting adults may or may not have fucked each other in private, tabloid newspaper are a shower of cunts. Quelle surprise there eh.

    staples Mon, 30/11/2009 - 15:03
  • YES, BUT IT'S WHAT GAYS DO ALL THE TIME. THEY HAVE DRUGS. THEY GET DRUNK. THEY HAVE SEX WITH OTHER MEN. THAT IS WHY THEY CAN NEVER HAVE CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS, BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING CIVIL ABOUT GAYS.

    Thanks, Jan. Can't we just put that daft cunt out of her misery and demote her to writing for Now?

    mr_chopper Mon, 30/11/2009 - 16:33
  • What I don't understand is why someone who was in a boyband and died from an OD/alcoholic binge/whatever should attract such big column inches (there's a gag in there bursting to get out) and such celebs to an OTT pissup that the Irish seem to revel in.

    Steo. God, he wasn't a footballer (Keano, Deano, Paolio di Canioio, Decoio) and nor did any of you know him that bloody intimately. He was a gay singer in a band whose fanbase consisted of knickerwetting housewives and knickerwetting (for the wrong reasons) pensioners, get over it. Pleasant young people like Gately die every day, just show your respect at the time and move on. All this public gnashing and wailing is fucking irritating

    Blartmonster Mon, 30/11/2009 - 19:44

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