James Blunt reveals what the public voted his new name is going to be

James Blunt has officially revealed his caller name, pursuing a nationalist vote. 

The 50-year-old You’re Beautiful singer, known for his self-deprecating wit connected social media, had antecedently promised to alteration his sanction if his debut medium Back to Bedlam deed fig 1 again connected its 20th anniversary. 

Fans person delivered, opting for the moniker ‘Blunty McBluntface.’

In a caller video shared connected Friday, October 11, Blunt plays on with the humorous result arsenic helium heads to a gathering and informs the receptionist of his name.

After being told that James Blunt isn’t connected the list, the vocalist tries respective alternatives earlier revealing the winning name.

With a sigh, helium announces himself arsenic Blunty McBluntface, earlier wryly commenting, ‘People person nary imagination.’

The sanction is, of course, a motion to the viral ‘Boaty McBoatface’ saga of 2016, wherever the nationalist was invited to sanction a caller British probe vessel.

In a highly entertaining crook of events, Boaty McBoatface was the overwhelming favorite, but the ship’s operators yet named it the RRS Sir David Attenborough instead, with Boaty McBoatface reserved for a smaller probe submersible.

On October 1, Blunt archetypal announced his plans to alteration his name.

In solemnisation of Back To Bedlam’s 20th anniversary, the vocalist is re-releasing the medium and going connected tour, and successful mentation released a video.

In the advert, the vocalist announced: ‘My sanction is James Blunt and you person the powerfulness to perfectly f**k my life.

know you’ve heard the rumours, and they are true, I’m rereleasing my debut medium Back To Bedlam connected October 11. Something that has kept maine consistently affluent for the past 20 years.

‘So arsenic a mode to springiness backmost to you, my adoring public, if Back To Bedlam re-enters the charts astatine fig one, I volition legally alteration my name. What volition I alteration it to? Well, it’s wholly up to you.

‘I’ve been called galore things successful my life, “the astir hated antheral successful pop,” “annoying,” “James Beige,” I’ll fto the radical decide.’

He past explained his lone condition: ‘But if it doesn’t spell to fig one, I’m not changing my name, it’s harmless to accidental this is the astir important antiauthoritarian infinitesimal of the year.’

James Blunt is nary alien to clever online antics. The singer, who skyrocketed to fame successful 2004 with his debut medium Back to Bedlam, has carved retired a niche for himself not lone with his euphony but besides his hilarious societal media presence.

His debut album, featuring hits similar You’re Beautiful and Goodbye My Lover, became 1 of the best-selling albums of the 2000s, propelling him to planetary stardom.

In the years since, Blunt has released six workplace albums and maintained a loyal fanbase – who volition present undoubtedly follow Blunt’s caller sanction with glee.

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