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Bob Geldof forced to correct Cat Deeley multiple times in new This Morning interview as he asks ‘who does your research’
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Published 19:48 26 Nov 2024 GMT

Bob Geldof forced to correct Cat Deeley multiple times in new This Morning interview as he asks ‘who does your research’

Cat Deeley appeared to make a number of mistakes while interviewing Bob Geldof about Band Aid

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Bob Geldof was forced to correct Cat Deeley multiple times in a new interview on This Morning.

The legendary lead singer of the Boomtown Rats, who is best known for creating Band Aid, appeared on the show to discuss the 40-year anniversary of the song.

Things took a turn for the awkward however, when Cat Deeley appeared to have been given the wrong information at every turn.

Bob Geldof appeared on the show (ITV)
Bob Geldof appeared on the show (ITV)

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It began when Deeley said that the Band Aid charity, which was made after the release of the first Band Aid song which featured a number of huge celebrity names, and their Live Aid concerts had raised ‘£2 million’.

This caused Deeley to correct herself quickly, saying: “I was supposed to say £200 million has been raised, but in today's money.”

Geldof then stepped in, saying that it was actually roughly £480 million now.

The musician then asked if she’s ‘never done this before’, to which Deeley replied saying she was ‘a spring chicken’, joking that she hadn’t.

Conversation then turned to an upcoming BBC show in which viewers will be able to see footage from the first ever Band Aid single, where they sang ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’.

The track featured numerous megastars, ranging from Bono to George Michael to Paul McCartney to Sting.

With Geldof discussing the fact it was going out later that week, Deeley interrupted to say it was going out on Channel 4.

He then cut her off again to say: “No, not Channel 4, BBC Four. Who briefs you? Who does your research, Deeley?

"It's BBC Four for God's sake”.

Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in 1984 (Larry Ellis via Getty Images)
Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in 1984 (Larry Ellis via Getty Images)

Deeley appeared to then wish for the ground to swallow her up, jokingly holding up her notes as she laughed.

Thankfully the interview carried on, with Geldof saying regarding the upcoming documentary: “That Sunday morning when a bunch of young spotty English pop stars who were, more or less, just out of school and had taken over the pop culture of the world, ambled up a Ladbroke Grove street in London to make a song their friends had written for the starving people of Ethiopia, they could never have understood the enormous consequences of that day.

Deeley held up her notes to show she had been told it was a Channel 4 show (ITV)
Deeley held up her notes to show she had been told it was a Channel 4 show (ITV)

“It was, if not exactly the ‘shot that rang around the world’, it certainly became, however unwittingly, ‘the shout that rang around the world’, culminating 20 years later in all its unlikely majesty in ultimately forcing the global political process to bend to its focused will at the Gleneagles G8 summit of 2005 and after the Live8 concerts.”

He finally said regarding the doc: “These rock stars piling into the control room, babies under arm - it was a Sunday, family day, chipping in, laughing, shouting suggestions, taking the p**s, funny, having fun making history, on top of the world.”

The documentary releases on Friday on BBC - not Channel - Four.

Featured Image Credit: ITV

Topics: This Morning, BBC, TV, TV and Film

Michael Slavin
Michael Slavin

Michael Slavin is LADbible's dedicated specialist Film and TV writer. Following his completion of a Masters in International Journalism at Salford University, he began working for the Warrington Guardian as a reporter. Throughout this he did freelance work about Entertainment for publications such as DiscussingFilm, where he was the Film and TV editor. Now, he is LAD's go to voice on all things Netflix, True Crime, and UK TV, as well as interviewing huge global stars such as Jake Gyllenhaal, Daisy Ridley, and Ben Stiller.

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