James Blunt has spoken about what led him to get signed up to season two of Celebrity Traitors and whether he would do more reality TV in the future
Singer and Celebrity Traitors contestant James Blunt has opened up on why he really signed up for the hit BBC show. James, 52, featured on season two of the programme which aired last month, but lost out on victory to comedian Romesh Ranganathan and actor Sebastian Croft.
Just a few weeks after the series finished, but six months on from filming, James has reflected on this time in the Scottish castle, going so far as to say whether or not he would return to play again. The You’re Beautiful hitmaker has already conceded one of his main motivations for joining was to promote his new album, Airplane Mode, which dropped shortly after Celebrity Traitors aired. It appears to have been a shrewd move, as he secured his first UK No1 album since 2007.
Now he has claimed it wasn’t even his idea to go on the show initially. Speaking about how he ended up on Celebrity Traitors, James said it was partly because of a special link between himself and the show’s iconic host, Claudia Winkelman.
Speaking to the Sunday Times, James said his wife, lawyer Sofia Wellesley, was on friendly terms with Claudia. When asked why he had signed up, the Your Beautiful singer replied: “I didn’t. My wife did, because she’s friends with Claudia.”
James went further and said that he now had mixed feelings about his appearance, going as far as to say he wouldn’t do it again. He said: “Before the watching the show on TV, I was upbeat. Yet, when I saw it last month, I felt less positive, because it’s so heavily edited.
“Obviously they have got to squeeze a day’s worth of shooting into an hour – but a lot of context is removed. It was frustrating.”
This isn’t the only time James has claimed his wife signed him up to the show. In an interview with the Guardian where they enquired if would do more reality TV, he said: “I swore that I would never do a reality show. Ever.
“And I have lived and breathed by that proclamation. My manager doesn’t even bring me those shows. But my wife signed me up to this without telling me. And I really wish she hadn’t.”
Meanwhile, James admitted that during the most recent Valentine’s Day he had gone to extraordinary lengths to mark the occasion.
He added: “I hired a helicopter, flew over my house and threw 100,000 red rose petals at my wife in the garden below. I thought that was pretty good. She thought it was OK.”
James’ comments come after a major resurgence for the star who recently secured his first UK number one album for 19 years. He joked during his Sunday Times interview that he asked his manager if Coldplay frontman Chris Martin would sign up for the show. His manager apparently replied: “James, you’re not Chris Martin.”
Despite his claims that he signed up to the show to promote his album, he came very close to clinching a share of the prize money for his chosen charity.
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