Tom Grennan gives major update on new album as he reveals how he’ll celebrate if he gets Christmas No1

HE is the clean-living, super-fit hunk of a popular prima who lone past period completed a 140-mile Ironman triathlon.

But British prima Tom Grennan is present laser focused connected his adjacent challenge, scoring the Christmas No1, followed by a two-week bender successful solemnisation if helium clinches it.

In an exclusive chat with Bizarre’s Howell Davies arsenic helium launched his Amazon archetypal tune It Can’t Be Christmas, helium said: “I’m not going for Christmas No2. I’m decidedly going for No1.

“Imagine, Christmas time and uncovering retired you’ve gone to No1? I’m going out, out. Christmas day, I’m having it up.

“I’m beauteous strict astir of the year. And I utilized to beryllium strict each twelvemonth round. But I’ve benignant of yet recovered bid with who I americium and what I americium and wherever I request to beryllium and what I request to do.

“So if I person a Christmas No1, I’m telling you, bro, I ain’t seeing you for a week oregon two. I’ll person a bully time.”

With 7 weeks to spell until Christmas, things are looking bully for Tom, with bookmakers William Hill putting him arsenic the favourite to apical the charts successful beforehand of Mariah Carey and 2023’s seasonal No1, Last Christmas by Wham!.

And determination could beryllium much to hear.

On penning his azygous astatine the tallness of summer, helium said: “I was like, right, I wanna spell determination truly hot.

“I rang up my friend, (songwriter) Justin Tranter, and I said, ‘I’m coming to LA, we request to constitute a Christmas song’.

“We wrote 4 oregon five, I think. Definitely they’ll get heard. You ne'er know, Christmas albums and whatnot. But close now, It Can’t Be Christmas is the 1 that needs to beryllium heard.”

And though that kicked disconnected what volition beryllium a hectic fewer weeks of campaigning to get to No1, helium is raring to spell with his 4th workplace medium adjacent year.

Tom explained: “The album’s done, which I’m really, truly excited for.

“This time, I absorbed loads of music. I listened to my ain euphony excessively and conscionable benignant of saw myself going down a small spot of a lane.

Tom was successful complaint of the nation’s archetypal Christmas lights power connected astatine London’s Oxford Street connected Monday night, joined by a small miss called Emily Mullen who is being supported by Great Ormond Street Hospital aft being calved with a terrible bosom condition.

“It’s like, nah, I don’t wanna bash that. I wanna effort and reinvent myself, and my sound, and enactment retired euphony that I truly love.

“And I consciousness similar I’ve done that this time, and I’m excited.

“It’s gonna beryllium a large year, hopefully adjacent year.”

I’m looking guardant to it already.