{"id":66680,"date":"2023-08-29T11:09:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T11:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rapidcelnews.com\/?p=66680"},"modified":"2023-08-29T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T11:09:47","slug":"richard-madeley-leaves-viewers-cringing-with-massive-eddy-grant-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rapidcelnews.com\/entertainment\/richard-madeley-leaves-viewers-cringing-with-massive-eddy-grant-blunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Madeley leaves viewers cringing with massive Eddy Grant blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Richard Madeley caused confusion on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday after asking Eddy Jones about Ghana, when the British singer was actually born in Guyana.<\/p>\n

The singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, 75, appeared on the show ahead of being honoured on the Camden Walk of Fame for his musical success.<\/p>\n

A founding member of the Equals, one of the UK\u2019s first diverse pop groups, he penned their number one, million-selling single Baby, Come Back in the 1960s.<\/p>\n

He is also known for his solo career, which saw him release anti-Apartheid anthem Gimme Hope Jo\u2019anna and become Grammy nominated for the 1983 song Electric Avenue.<\/p>\n

As Richard and co-host Kate Garraway kicked off the interview by complimenting Eddy on how youthful he was looking, they established that the star was born in 1948 and had moved over to the UK aged 12.<\/p>\n

Here, however, the facts became rather less verified as Richard continued: \u2018And when you left Ghana, it was dirt poor, wasn\u2019t it, when you were a kid?\u2019<\/p>\n


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Eddy immediately looked rather befuddled as he reflected on what Richard had asked him, leading to a very obvious awkward silence.<\/p>\n

As the hitmaker then responded, \u2018Was it?\u2019, Richard doubled down, seemingly not realising the faux pas he had made, as he added: \u2018I thought it didn\u2019t get oil rich until a bit later?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018It didn\u2019t get oil rich until 2015, I think,\u2019 Eddy offered, to which Richard could be heard saying: \u2018Yeah, yeah, a lot later.\u2019<\/p>\n

Eddy was of course talking about his birthplace of Guyana in this instance, which is situated on the northern mainland of South America.<\/p>\n

However, Ghana \u2013 officially the Republic of Ghana \u2013 is a country in West Africa, where the oil industry dates back to the 1970s.<\/p>\n

The show also touched on Eddy\u2019s ongoing legal action against former US President Donald Trump, who used his song Electric Avenue for a tweet slamming now-President Joe Biden during his 2020 campaign without asking for permission.<\/p>\n

\u2018I took him to court because of the lack of respect basically,\u2019 said Eddy as he pointed out that Trump did the same with many other artists too, including the Rolling Stones.<\/p>\n


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