They haven’t been back on the scene long, but already Blue are making the type of comments that made them one of the most entertaining and cringe worthy bands of recent times by having a go at Phillip Schofield. We’ve already talked about Lee’s run in with The Wanted, and his 9 11 comments. The rest of the band though, while not quite living up to the Lee’s status as chief gaff maker, have always been able to show they’re no slackers in this department. Who can forget Duncan joining Captain Stupid for their high fives during spit roasts activity (fair enough it was Lee who blurted out that they do this, but if you’re famous and doing this Duncan, pick a more subtle team mate than Mr Ryan).
So what’s the beef this time? Well as part of the traditional British publicity train they got their arses down to the This Morning studios to perform the song. This was followed by national treasure Phillip Schofield tweeting this: “Well that’s Eurovision screwed for another year!! Sorry guys, I love you together and individually… But that’s a shocking song.” We like the candour of celebs doing this, but to be fair to the boys it’s not a shocking song. Here it is so you can decide for yourselves before going on to agree or get enraged by our comments:
Notice the high five between Simon Webbe and Duncan? – suspicious to say the least.
The song though is typical blue fodder, with Lee setting off a decent pop song with his high pitched vocals. It’s a decent effort and it seems the bookmakers agree with the UK being at about 11 to 1 to win i.e. only Estonia and France have a better chance.
So you might think then that the boys have some reason to be annoyed. However, we can’t get on board with any Schofield bashing as he simply formed too much of a part of our childhood, and with Blue, like a teacher dealing with a child who has been in too many fights in school, we can’t help but think it’s their fault even though they are probably right on this one.
Antony Costa started off the defence in a fairly civilised manner commenting: “The man is a national treasure on TV, and for him to say what he did about our song. Obviously he’s entitled to his opinion, but he should have pulled us aside. To say it to 700,000 followers on his Twitter wasn’t cool. If we performed it on his show, he’d stand there and give us a clap, and he would say well done.”
Now that seems more than moderate. We’re even willing to put aside picture of him urinating into a cash machine that very recently surfaced because he’s managed to couch it in very diplomatic terms. Then Lee waded in:
“He’d be like, ‘Let’s wish our boys luck’, and we’d be thinking, ‘You two-faced Gordon the Gopher!’”
With wit like that, who needs a sledgehammer.
Duncan took a line down the middle, stating off taking the high road, before getting stuck into the scrap saying he wanted to sit on the This Morning sofa with a “smug grins on our faces”.
Overall we hope this situation does happen. Fine you’d have to put up with his smug face, but you always know Blue are a few seconds away from a gaff, which makes it a satisfying dislike. All Schofield would have to do is ask them what they got up to in Europe and the embarassing filthy stories that followed would be enough to get him back winning. Blue of course would need to leave the set and be told they had said something bad again before they realised the tables had turned.
