George Michael expressed his "remorse" after being nabbed Friday for loitering around a public toilet and possessing a drug thought to be crack cocaine. Michael, of course, has had many public run-ins revolving around drugs and public sex, like that time in 1998 when he flashed a cop. That scandal forced him out of the closet.

That said, please forgive us for not being moved by his apology: "I want to apologize to my fans for screwing up again, and to promise them I’ll sort myself out. And to say sorry to everybody else, just for boring them."

The public may not be as understanding as Michael would like, with scores leaving disheartened messages on his website. Wrote one irate fan, "…George shows signs of stupidity I only thought people such as Pete Doherty were capable of.” That's cold.

Lucily, cops let Michael off with a warning. Perhaps they've realized he's a slow a learner.

George Michael, a little known pop star who loves pot, has taken to offering political advice:

British pop star George Michael has a tip for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama — team up with former rival Hillary Clinton.

Michael, 45, touring North America for the first time in 17 years, told fans during a concert at New York City's Madison Square Garden that "I know you guys all need a change."

He admitted he doesn't know what kind of change Obama would bring if elected, saying that after "months of watching CNN" he still does not know what Obama or Clinton stand for.

Quite the persuasive political operative you've become, George.

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Elton John's "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" invariably makes us teary. Throw in fellow homo George Michael and its full on water works. We feel much better now that we've gotten that doozy off our collective chest.

The redcoats are coming! Oh, wait, that's just George Michael: the perpetually scandalized, pot loving pop star landed in the states this month for his first yank tour in seventeen years. In honor of his aural resurrection, Michael recently sat down with HX's Brandon Voss and, like an enthusiastic trick, informed the homo-journo that he do anything. So, like an eager beaver, Brandon did:

BV: How do you maintain such a good sense of humor about your mishaps?
GM: Well, with the stuff that I get up to, if I didn’t have a sense of humor I’d really be up shit creek, as they say. I can always see the funny side, especially if it’s about sex.

BV: So who looked better while performing community service—you or Naomi Campbell?
GM: She turned it out—absolutely! Good for her. I think I should’ve done a bit of shopping, shouldn’t I?

Scandals aside, Michael also offered his advice to closeted pop-stars: "Come out and accept that you’ll lose some of your audience.” Sounds good to us….

We've got some good news and bad news, readers.

Here's the good news: former Wham! manager Simon Napier-Bell has his heart set on making a big screen flick about the British duo's success.

And now the bad news: super star and stink bug George Michael may put a dagger through Napier-Bell's dream:

"There are several people sniffing around my Wham! film," [Napier-Bell] said, "but I'm not sure any of them will come off because they all require Wham! music in them and George controls that. He will have the yes or no on each script presented. George would want control."

The film, which would concentrate on the band's heyday from 1983-1985, is said to be budgeted at £50m, though it's unclear whether this would include a fee for music copyright. Michael has yet to comment.

Excuse us while we mourn the potential loss of what could be the greatest, most unnecessary musically-inclined film ever.

George Michael may have finally put all those drug and solicitation scandals behind him: dude is back in action!

Thanks in no small part to ABC’s Eli Stone, the Wham! singer is suddenly a sought-after commodity again.

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Hedge your bushes and buy some weed, 'cause George Michael's coming State side! The 44-year old singer announced that he'll perform 25 shows starting this June, but don't expect a repeat performance:

Michael, 44, calls it a "rounding off" of his career's first phase. "I don't want to do anything on this scale again," he says. "No more stadiums. I'd like to be the Tony Bennett for my generation."

Disturbed by the increasing trend of downloadable music rendering CDs obsolete and talent shows such as American Idol taking the passion out of pop music, Michael says, "it's the end of a certain era, and I'm not sure how much I really want to be a part of what's next. So, it's a kind of a way of saying thank you to everybody before I move on."

Michael insists he'll keep making music, although plans to eschew the pop sensibility that has marked his career: "There are other ways I can express the things I want to. And pop music stopped being a place to express much lyrically awhile back."

Michael also says that he won't be playing his more youthful hits, like "I Want Your Sex." He's looking for a more mature, longer lasting sound, a la "Careless Whisper", which we've reposted after the jump, because it's great.

Michael's new direction, he says, will hopefully align him with another musical great: Tony Bennett. Dream big!

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retroCRUSH recently published their list of twenty-five the "the greatest duets of all time". The forgot to include Aretha Franklin and George Michael's “I Knew You Were Waiting," but did include another old British queen, Elton John, who teamed up with Kiki Dee for "Don't Go Breaking My Heart".