Article: BACK AFTER FIVE YEARS IN HELL; World exclusive: GEORGE MICHAEL talks to TONY PARSONS Only in your.(Features)

I HAD lunch with George Michael and his cousin Andros at an Italian restaurant in London's Highgate on Saturday.

They arrive in George's Range Rover on the short drive from his modern home in swish Hampstead to Highgate.

George sips white wine and eats a simple dish of pasta with a gorgonzola sauce.

He is wearing an understated dark check suit with an open neck shirt and no overcoat on a freezing winter afternoon.

George looks slim and well, his hair cropped short, the famous designer stubble now evolved into a slick goatee beard, but for the first time since I ...

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