Cosmopolitan is happy to announce that James Blunt LOVES playing Cheap Shots. Not only does he enjoy drinking our cheap liquor, but willingly admits two career regrets, his least favorite Ed Sheeran song, and even some details on his fling with Lindsay Lohan. Be sure to read 'Loosely Based on a Made Up Story.'
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00:00 Who would you rather go to dinner with, William and Kate or Harry and Meghan and tell us why?
00:05 That's a bit rude of you guys to write that.
00:06 Hey I'm James Blunt and I'm taking Cheap Shots with Cosmo.
00:11 Oh that's good.
00:14 There will be three rounds with five questions each.
00:18 For every question there's a drink and one of those drinks is a cheap shot.
00:22 So I either have to answer honestly or risk a hangover.
00:25 How many shots do you think it usually takes for you to like get a buzz cut?
00:27 I don't know, I'm a small human being, maybe three.
00:31 First round I'll be taking shots of myself.
00:33 Here I have four shots of Corona.
00:36 One is a cheap beer spiked with cheap whiskey.
00:38 All right let's do this.
00:40 Your new memoir is called Loosely Based on a Made-Up Story.
00:44 Name one story you made up and why.
00:46 Well my lawyer told me to tell you that none of them are true but they're all true.
00:49 Are you telling me the truth?
00:53 My lawyer tells you that's not the truth.
00:54 It's a lie.
00:56 But they're all true.
00:58 Let's take a shot.
00:59 The rules are basically as loosely based on my book as that.
01:08 That's the one.
01:14 Straight up.
01:16 Yeah you put that nearest me guys.
01:20 That was a cheap trick not a cheap shot.
01:24 In 2014 you told the Guardian that you don't listen to your own music because you have better
01:29 taste in that.
01:30 What's a song that you wish you'd never recorded and why?
01:34 Actually it's a bit of a lie.
01:35 I just don't like music at all.
01:36 I mean I have so many so many songs that I probably shouldn't have recorded.
01:41 And you want me to say you're beautiful don't you so that I say I wish I'd never recorded
01:44 that but f*** you I love the song and it's made me a ton and I have a fancy house off
01:49 the back of it.
01:50 A couple of cars too.
01:51 In fact my wife wouldn't be with me without that song.
01:54 I mean after all she's not after me for these looks and height is it?
01:57 It's for the cash-y.
01:59 I'll just take the shot.
02:00 You were known to roast haters on Twitter and were even asked by your record label to
02:11 stop.
02:11 Which of your comments pushed your label over the edge?
02:14 They introduced me to Twitter and they asked me if I'd promote my music.
02:17 And I was a little confused as to what I should be doing exactly.
02:20 So when people would post I would post a reply.
02:22 So when someone posted something like "James Blunt's my guilty pleasure" I would reply
02:26 "Mine's anal."
02:27 That's when they asked me to stop.
02:31 In a statement regarding your upcoming documentary One Brit Wonder you said "In hindsight I'm
02:39 not sure letting them film this was a good idea."
02:42 Name two things from your career that you would have done differently.
02:46 From your career that you regret.
02:48 There are so many.
02:49 Where do I start?
02:50 Firstly we let them do a documentary.
02:52 I'm British.
02:53 I'd hoped I would come across as a kind of a British Tom Cruise and it hasn't really
02:56 come across that way.
02:58 I turned up to the Grammys.
02:59 And I shouldn't have bothered.
03:02 When you were younger you said you strictly ate meat to prove your manliness.
03:08 What's your most toxic masculine trait?
03:10 Well exactly that.
03:12 I just ate meat to prove my manliness and in the process caught scurvy.
03:16 Round one completed.
03:17 Round two.
03:20 Timed shots.
03:22 I have 30 seconds to get these trivia questions right or take a shot.
03:25 These drinks are Moscow Mule shooters.
03:28 Four are made with Belvedere and one is mixed with vodka that's better for cleaning than
03:32 consuming.
03:33 I am ready.
03:34 You were nominated for five Grammy Awards in 2007.
03:39 What were the categories?
03:40 Best new artist, best album, best song, best looking, uh...
03:44 squeak his voice.
03:46 I can't remember.
03:53 Oh that's good.
03:57 That's really good.
03:59 You were nominated for best new artist.
04:01 Yes.
04:02 Best pop vocal album back to back.
04:04 Yeah I mean it was a great vocal.
04:06 Song of the year you reviewed a book.
04:08 Pobs.
04:08 Best male pop vocal performance.
04:10 Totally and it was if we're honest with each other it was.
04:13 Record of the year you're beautiful.
04:14 Definitely that was a classic song.
04:16 Can I have another without doing a question?
04:18 In 2014 a teenager was fined 900 pounds for playing you're beautiful and another song
04:24 on repeat at full volume.
04:25 What was the other song?
04:26 Really tough question.
04:29 Um uh let's go for the crazy frog song you know.
04:34 Ding-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling.
04:40 Wrong.
04:41 Okay let's go for another guess.
04:42 Bad day Daniel Powter.
04:44 Could I get a third choice?
04:49 You get you have seven more seconds.
04:50 Okay hang on.
04:52 I can't think of anything that really isn't as annoying as my own song.
04:58 What was the song?
05:01 Taylor Bee by B-Wish.
05:02 Okay yeah.
05:05 Interesting.
05:06 Oh that's good guys.
05:13 Really thank you.
05:16 Thanks for having me.
05:17 According to IMDB your songs have been used in eight movies.
05:22 Name five of them.
05:23 P.S. I love you.
05:25 Star Wars.
05:27 There's something about Mary.
05:32 Um uh the second Star Wars.
05:35 Whatever it was called.
05:37 I mean if they did I wasn't paid for it.
05:39 Because I only know one movie my song's been played in.
05:43 And that went straight to DVD.
05:46 I mean we don't know that.
05:50 My manager and I don't know about that.
05:51 Someone's ripped us off.
05:52 I need a representative from the label here.
05:54 Really you reckon they've used the song in eight movies?
05:57 No way.
05:59 Classic movies which no one's heard of.
06:02 Spring Breakdown.
06:03 Brilliant.
06:04 I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry.
06:06 It's a boy girl thing.
06:07 Ringing no bells here.
06:08 I mean it's weird because some of these questions are about me and I don't know the answers.
06:11 It's like I just don't know my own career at all in any way.
06:14 I haven't been able to answer anything.
06:15 Cheers.
06:19 That was delicious thank you.
06:23 No it's not.
06:26 I'm English and I have a remarkably low taste in alcohol.
06:31 In your memoir you talk about a fling you had with Linda Learne.
06:33 Can you name five movies she starred in?
06:36 I didn't describe it exactly as that.
06:37 It was a thing rather than fling.
06:39 And five movies she starred in.
06:42 Well we didn't make a movie so that's what you're pushing for.
06:44 That's just.
06:46 That was better though.
06:50 That was a better drink.
06:51 Actually I do.
06:55 A security guard.
06:56 I was removed from the building by a security guard.
06:59 That's absolutely 100% true.
07:01 Twice.
07:02 But he hugged me on the way out the second time.
07:05 You can read a bit more about it in more detail in a new book called Loosely Based on a Made-Up Story.
07:12 At the 2006 VMAs you were nominated for Best Male Video.
07:18 Who are the other nominees?
07:19 Don't f***ing remember because I won it.
07:21 But as it's the only thing I've won I should be more modest.
07:27 So thank you for that to the VMAs.
07:30 You don't remember who comes second do you?
07:35 Just remember who came first.
07:39 Yeah that's what my wife almost says to me as well.
07:41 Would you like to know who the other nominees were?
07:44 No we don't.
07:44 Don't need to know.
07:46 Round three.
07:47 The category is cheap shots.
07:49 I'll be taking literal cheap shots at everyone.
07:53 That sounds kind of nasty.
07:54 This game has been so innocent and fun and somehow and now it's just kind of bitchy.
07:59 The drinks are lemon drops.
08:01 Four are made with grey goose and the cheap one is from a $10 bottle of vodka.
08:05 You've opened for a lot of big names over the years.
08:09 List three of those tours ranked from best to worst live performer.
08:15 That's so mean of you guys.
08:16 I have supported Elton John, Cheryl Crow and Ed Sheeran.
08:22 And I'm gonna say we'll do it in seniority rather than worst performer.
08:27 It was Elton John.
08:30 Wow how amazing to open for him.
08:32 Cheryl Crow, phenomenal, incredible, what a support.
08:34 And Ed, well in the end I ended up touring with him and having to share the same bed
08:38 with him on the tour bus to keep him warm at night.
08:40 He treated me that badly.
08:42 Well I think it's rather than worst ranking it's worst treatment.
08:45 I was treated very well by Elton.
08:47 With Cheryl she kept me cozy.
08:49 Whereas Ed I had to go in the bottom of the bed.
08:52 Would you do it again today?
08:54 I would absolutely sleep with Ed again.
08:55 Probably not tour again.
08:57 Oh look here's name comes up again.
08:59 You've worked with, performed with and are close friends with Ed Sheeran.
09:03 What is your least favourite Ed Sheeran song?
09:07 Shape of You.
09:08 Straight up.
09:10 I hate it because I'm just really jealous of you little bastard.
09:13 How do you write such a good pop song?
09:14 I played my new single in front of him and he played his and I thought well f*** you.
09:18 [Laughter]
09:21 In an Esquire interview you said the Rolling Stones had never had a hit like You're Beautiful.
09:26 Who's another artist still searching for their hit and why?
09:30 You know Ed's had his big one.
09:33 I was signed by Linda Perry she just had the one didn't she?
09:35 Sorry Linda.
09:36 I mean if the Stones are desperate for looking for a hit then pretty much everyone is isn't it?
09:39 Sorry.
09:46 You name drop a lot of celebrities.
09:48 That's a bit rude of you guys to write that.
09:49 I just mention a lot of celebrities in your new book loosely based on a made-up story out now.
09:55 What's one celebrity story you didn't include and why didn't it make the cut?
09:59 Well because I wear amongst friends.
10:02 I did find myself in a loo cubicle.
10:06 F*** once.
10:07 Final question in round three.
10:12 You and your wife have hung out with the royals and even attended Harry and Meghan's wedding in 2018.
10:20 Who would you rather go to dinner with William and Kate or Harry and Meghan and tell us why?
10:24 Yeah.
10:27 Thank you good night.
10:34 This has been Cheap Shots.
10:37 The reason I'm here is I'm flogging a book called Loosely Based on a Made-up Story.
10:41 Get it.
10:42 I've got an album out too.
10:43 You know me.
10:44 Don't get it.
10:45 It's called Wish You Were Here.
10:46 No it wasn't.
10:46 That's by Pink Floyd.
10:48 [music]