Singer and DJ Boy George has revealed how he tried to end his war of words with Matt Lucas - but was snubbed by the comic.

The former Culture Club frontman called the Little Britain star a "prissy, niggly diva" when they worked together on hit musical Taboo. Later attempts to make amends got him nowhere. George, 47, said: "I wrote Matt an email a while ago. I apologised to him for the things I said but he didn't respond. But that's irrelevant. It's about what you have done and holding your head up high.

"I wish that a few more people would apologise to me in life. There's something to be said about being able to say sorry." Two people who accepted an apology, though, were Elton John and partner David Furnish. George had called Sir Elton's plans to work with Eminem a "desperate bid to be trendy".

But after making a new year's resolution to be nicer, he made his peace with Furnish at an event. He said: "He actually made me feel really bad because he was so nice. We agreed it was all very juvenile. Then I got a call from Elton a few days later. I tended to say things before thinking about them. But that was always done in a comic sense.

"However, when you're on the receiving end of that, it does come across as bad."

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