George Michael Pulls Out of HIV Film

LONDON, UK -- British pop singer George Michael has asked BBC not to broadcast an interview he made with his friend Stephen Fry where he discusses his views on HIV tests and why he will never have one.

In the interview, which was part of a documentary scheduled to be shown on BBC2 next month, George Michael says that he has not been tested for several years because he fears the result.

Producer Ross Wilson said at the June launch: "George says he does not believe in tests. He says he finds the wait for results too harrowing and that he hasn't had a test since at least 2004 due to his fears it might be positive."

There has been speculations whether Michael was unhappy with the way the BBC publicized his comments but a spokesperson for Michael denies this. "On reflection, he felt it was too close and too personal a journey for George to take and he asked for his contribution to be removed. It was too personal for Anselmo's family to revisit," she said.

Anselmo Feleppa, George Michael's former boyfriend, died from AIDS in 1995.

For the documentary, Stephen Fry travels across Britain and to the US and Africa to examine how the disease is spreading.

He discovers there are three times as many Britons with HIV as there were 10 years ago and that heterosexual sex has overtaken homosexual sex as the most common cause of infection, the Daily Mail reports.

He also uncovers a trend for young gay men to deliberately set out to contract the virus by sleeping with HIV-positive partners and for straight men who target HIV-positive women for the thrill of dangerous sex.