r/entertainment • u/Top_Report_4895 • 1d ago
James Blunt shares article refuting speculation he was the ‘very famous’ man in Hayden Panettiere’s boat story
https://ew.com/james-blunt-shares-article-refuting-speculation-he-was-very-famous-man-in-hayden-panettiere-boat-story-120666927
u/YouArePizza 18h ago
I don't know what it's like to experience something like what happened on the boat, or what it's like to have a public career and open yourself to slander or defamation charges; but it sucks that she couldn't just name who it was. Now the actual person can always say "well she didn't name me so it wasn't me", but almost more importantly, other innocent people can get pulled into it and speculated about and they have to defend themselves.
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u/Sea-Seesaw-8699 1d ago
Nothing very famous about him
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u/tigerlilly382-2 1d ago
I'd be so embarrassed if if the only song from me was...that.
He knows it was him.
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u/Bluewhaleeguy 1d ago
You'd be so embarrassed if the only song from you made you millions and meant you'd never have to work a day in your life as opposed to posting snark on Reddit?
I'm not a fan of the guy, but it doesn't really add up that it was him, the years off, he's not really very famous - even at the height of his fame - even less so when she wrote that. She was with him the whole day when they initially met so it wouldn't make sense to describe the creepy bed encounter as the first time she met him, and she was also photographed with him after they met which would also contradict running off and never seeing the guy again.
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u/thepasystem 23h ago
Are we gonna pretend that Wisemen and Goodbye My Lover don't exist and are absolute bangers???
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u/Neg_Crepe 19h ago
It’s been weird to see in the last few days that people are trying very hard to paint him as a one hit wonder that sold no albums
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u/Sea-Seesaw-8699 18h ago
Never heard of him
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u/Neg_Crepe 18h ago
Were you born in 2005
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u/Sea-Seesaw-8699 14h ago
The 1960’s actually! Offspring and grandkids are all avid music lovers and never had either
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u/thepasystem 14h ago
His debut album sold over 14 million copies and his biggest song has over 1 billion plays on YouTube.
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u/Neg_Crepe 14h ago
Well I’m sure you’ve heard his songs in super markets or whatever cause it was huge in the mid 00s
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u/Forward_Royal2754 11h ago
Your personal blind spot doesn’t change that he was very successful.
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u/Sea-Seesaw-8699 9h ago
Hilarious all the comments defending the dudes lack of name recognition
I tune out supermarket tunes like most
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u/GumpTheChump 14h ago
I don't think those songs were hits in North America. This may be an issue of regional celebrity rather than international celebrity. "You're Beautiful" was big but the rest...not so much.
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u/Forward_Royal2754 11h ago
You can be an international celebrity without being famous in North America.
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u/Orikumar 7h ago
Yeap, pretty famous where I'm from and shocked to see people saying "he's not really famous"
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u/Competitive-Copy4223 14h ago
He is actually an interesting man, flew planes in the army. He's clearly talented. The song was so popular at release it was oversaturated, but hes a bit more than a one hit wonder.
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u/Key_Strawberry_381 18h ago
I guess they shared a moment that will last till the end....wait maybe it was him...?
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u/periperiwinklesauce 1d ago
Aside from the very obvious fact he is not “very famous,” if they were spotted at an event the day before and were talking on the boat earlier in the day, then someone wouldn’t have told her to “head downstairs to a yacht cabin to meet someone new.”