Michael Jackson aint impressed with a spoof article in GQ magazine based on the theme of "where's Michael". The feature pretends to be searching for the singer and includes various pictures of a Jacko look-alike taken in different locations in Bahrain where, of course, Jackson now lives. One picture shows the look-alike sitting in a darkened cinema with a row of children, while another shows him standing in the desert draped in a black cloak and headscarf, complete with the singer's trademark white glove.
Outlining Jacko's feelings towards the spoof, his spokesman, Raymone Bain, told reporters this weekend: "Mr Jackson is furious that his image has been used in such a misleading way, and is demanding an apology from the editors of GQ, and its publisher, Conde Nast. Mr Jackson is also demanding that the magazines be pulled from newsstands".
GQ Editor-in-chief Jim Nelson has responded thus: "It is very clear that the pictures in the story are satirical, whether it's a picture of a Michael Jackson imitator sitting in a Bahraini cinema or an image of The Gloved One standing flamboyantly in the desert. Mr Jackson may feel that the person in the photographs is an 'impostor', but he is merely an imitator".
Of course given his response Jackson might just help GQ score one of their best selling issues for some time.