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James Blunt: ‘Have I changed and grown up? No, not really’


Over lunch as he turns 50, the singer tells a host of wild celebrity tales, involving Ed Sheeran and Bear Grylls, and admits that, just sometimes, the criticism can sting

(Sheeran also has a two-inch scar under his right eye sustained when he and Blunt, in the early hours, fought each other in armour with ceremonial swords while staying at Prince Andrew’s house in 2016.) Does Blunt, now seven albums in, and still playing arena shows throughout Europe and America – this spring, he will perform across the UK, including two nights at the Royal Albert Hall – feel there has been a more measured appraisal of his music? Blunt would later call on Grylls’s help when, having been invited by his then-girlfriend Lindsay Lohan, he ended up in the bathroom of Jamie Foxx’s hotel suite, staring at a blocked toilet.

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