Burns to wed gay lover

Flamboyant eighties pop star Pete Burns has announced his engagement to boyfriend Michael Simpson, with the pair showing off their gold skull-shaped rings live on British TV yesterday.

The pair gushed about how in love they were on a Channel Four chat show, and confirmed they intend to follow Elton John and David Furnish down the aisle under new laws recognising same-sex partnerships in England.

Dead Or Alive singer Burns said: "We're so happy.

"Today we got our engagement rings, made by Vivienne Westwood. It symbolises that under all this flesh we are bones. And souls.

"Michael has never seen me as a photo, a video or a song. He saw me as the person I am.

"As soon as I met him, I fell. I stalked him in the restaurant he worked in.

"Somebody gave him my phone number, he called me that night, we met in a café and went on from there."

His partner Simpson added: "We just naturally connected with each other."