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James Blunt recalls embarrassing stage diving failure

'You're Beautiful' singer James Blunt has revealed that he once tried to impress his friends by stage diving and it went horribly wrong. 

He told TV chat show host Graham Norton that the crowd weren't aware of his intentions so when he leapt from the stage, they moved out of the way and he hit the ground hard:

"I have learnt that you have to warn people you are going to do a stage dive. I once didn't give that warning and ran in, the crowd parted and I just smacked the ground in front of my friends."

"It's gone wrong several times. In Chicago I jumped off the stage, ran towards the audience and a large security guard who didn't recognise me tackled me to the ground. And, at Glastonbury the stage was too tall for me to climb back on to. There was one man on the stage and as I begged for him to help I realised he was the BBC cameraman, broadcasting to the nation!"

Blunt's forthcoming new album, entitled 'Moon Landing', is due to be released later this month on October 21. 

 

 

 

 

 

Watch footage of Blunt performing live in Germany here: