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Damon Albarn experienced a notably awkward moment during an appearance on “The Graham Norton Show” alongside his Blur bandmates in 2015.
During a recent episode, the 57-year-old singer expressed his frustration at not being invited back on the popular talk show.
This isn’t the first tense interaction between Albarn and Norton, as fans have pointed out that Albarn appeared “bored” during his previous appearance over a decade ago.
In a clip shared on YouTube, Albarn was seen with bandmates Alex James, Graham Coxon, and Dave Rowntree.
After performing their hit “Lonesome Street,” viewers remarked that Albarn seemed eager to “leave,” with some commenting that “he is always so sulky on the show.”
Throughout the interview, Damon appeared quiet and held his head in his hands, while the rest of his band were in fits of laughter.
Damon Albarn, now 57, had a very awkward interview on the Graham Norton Show when he appeared on the programme with his Blur bandmates back in 2015 (pictured)
The singer took aim at Graham Norton for not inviting him back on the chat show during Friday’s episode (Graham pictured on the 2015 episode)
Commenting on his awkward appearance, viewers wrote: ‘Damon is literally me at any social function’,
‘Damon is always so sulky on this show, he just wants to perform and LEAVE!!! lol, whenever he laughs I need to rewind cause I’m not sure if my eyes were lying to me’,
‘damon is bored lol’, ‘Can’t deal with the way Damon looks at Graham’,
‘it’s obvious damon doesn’t like this kind of set up though i really enjoy both blur and graham norton he was laughing a bit at the interview but then when it came to the red chair, he was off it’,
‘Damon wants to just to go home’, ‘Damon looks so sad…’Â
This week, the singer appeared alongside Adrian Lester, Leo Woodall, Stephen Graham and Kaley Cuoco.Â
He was on the show to promote Gorillaz’s upcoming tour, which will stop at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in June.Â
During this week’s episode, Damon called out Graham about never being invited back on the famous sofa.
It’s not the first awkward exchange between the pair as fans previously noted Damon was looking ‘bored’ during his appearance over a decade ago
In a snippet of the chat show shared on YouTube, Damon was joined by his bandmates Alex James, Graham Coxon and Dave Rowntree
Throughout the interview, Damon appeared quiet and held his head in his hands, while the rest of his band were in fits of laughter
After performing Lonesome Street, viewers said Damon looked like he wanted to ‘leave’ before adding ‘he is always so sulky on the show’
‘You haven’t invited me back,’ he said while sipping his drink.
‘Well, you’re here now,’ Graham replied.
Damon continued: ‘I remember the last time I came back and told you in a nightclub… you remember?’
‘What? I was in a nightclub?’ Graham asked, clearly confused.
‘Yeah, I was in a nightclub with you and I was like, “Why am I never on your show?”‘ Damon explained.
‘I have no recollection of that. I must’ve been quite… drunk,’ Graham admitted.
Damon quipped: ‘It must’ve been one of those nightclubs.’
‘Yes, it must have. How funny. I may have blanked it from my mind out of awkwardness,’ Graham replied.
During this week’s episode, Damon called out Graham about never being invited back on the famous sofaÂ
He was on the show to promote Gorillaz’s upcoming tour, which will stop at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in June
The singer appeared alongside Adrian Lester, Leo Woodall, Stephen Graham, and Kaley CuocoÂ
It comes after Damon was seen enjoying a low-key stroll with a new female companion in August, two years after his much-publicised split from Suzi Winstanley.
Back in 2023, The Mail on Sunday revealed that despite trying hard to save their relationship, Suzi ended things with Damon after 25 years together.
Sources close to the couple, who shared daughter Missy, 25, said that it was ‘kept a bit secret’ and only those who had to know were told.
It was also revealed that they struggled with the Blur frontman’s travelling schedule and his insistence that he spent much of his time at their Devon home where he has converted some of the space into a recording studio.
One friend: ‘Suzi was so heartbroken that she hardly told anyone. She really, really tried but the relationship just could not be saved.
‘It has been so sad for her, I suppose once you share news like that around it makes it all very final.’
Suzi was said to be so heartbroken that she has been unable to listen to Albarn’s latest album, The Ballad Of Darren.
In a song called The Ballad, the lyrics say: ‘I just looked into my life/And all I saw was that you’re not coming back.’
Suzi Winstanley and Damon split in 2023 (pictured in 1999)
Other lyrics hint that Albarn, who is also known for virtual band Gorillaz, placed himself at fault for the breakdown of the relationship.Â
The album’s second track St Charles Square features the opening lines: ‘I f***** up/I’m not the first to do it.’
Many of the lyrics tell the story of their romance which began in the late 1990s following Albarn’s split from Elastica star Justine Fleischmann.Â
Albarn had moved into a two-bedroom flat in Ladbroke Grove and got in cartoonist friend Jamie Hewlett as a housemate.
He had been invited onto Libby Purvis’s Radio 4 chat show Midweek, where Winstanley had also been a guest, due to her Olly and Suzi partnership, which specialised in collaborative painting of endangered wildlife.
As Hewlett and Albarn began coming up with the idea for the Gorillaz project, they would hold get-togethers in the property.
The Girls And Boys singer recalled in an interview with The Sunday Times in 2008: ‘We had some incredible parties in the flat. Some very interesting people came through our door during that year.’
One of them was Winstanley and by the end of 1999 they had moved into a house together and welcomed their daughter, Missy.
He previously described becoming a father as ‘witnessing a life force’ in an interview with Esquire.
He said: ‘It massively changes you. It slowly sort of shaves off the unpleasant thorny bits and hopefully creates a nicely rounded [life]. I don’t know, having a kid, inevitably you look to the future far more.’
The pair kept most details of their private life under wraps, but Albarn would reveal snippets on rare occasions.
He disclosed that they would never tie the knot due to a fundamental lack of interest in the institution.
Albarn remarked on one occasion: ‘I don’t think she’d marry me. Suzi doesn’t believe in marriage, and nor do I. It’s been so ruined by everybody who’s got divorced.’