James Blunt has suggested people use his new book as loo roll.
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James Blunt
The 'You're Beautiful' hitmaker is known for his witty putdowns on Twitter and his turned his online experiences into a new tome, 'How To Be A Complete and Utter Blunt: Diary of a Reluctant Social Media Sensation'.
And James has joked that not only can fans be entertained by his tales if they buy the book, they can find a second use to it once they've finished, particularly if the upcoming coronavirus lockdown causes people to panic buy essentials again.
He joked: "The second wave of virus is with us now. People have been panic buying loo roll and there is a shortage. This book is designed to be read sitting on the loo and pages used as appropriate afterwards."
The 46-year-old singer joked the pandemic had been introduced to get him out of the spotlight, but had only given him a new purpose.
He quipped to the Metro newspaper's Guilty Pleasures column: "You can stop me doing live music by introducing a virus, but in doing so I will just put a book out."
James was initially "surprised" by the negativity he receives online and finds it "weird" that people love to share their negative opinions.
He said: "I was selling albums in the millions which was a surprise too.
"You get that people might buy it, but then you have people who are very angry with my existence which was a shock. I am not that bothered by stuff I don’t enjoy or like.
"‘If there is a TV show I don’t like I don’t watch it. It would be weird of me to go online to say how much I dislike it. But people do. Humans are crazy like it."
But he likes being able to fight back on Twitter.
He added: "Twitter allows me to reply to people as a human rather than a marketing team… in fact, I am just a vulgar idiot.
"Twitter brings out the worst in people and Instagram brings out a side in people to show off their life that doesn’t really exist. That results in other people feeling inadequate about themselves."
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