Tom Grennan talks BRITs, Lizzo and Harry Styles on Hits Radio
Tom Grennan joined Sam Thompson on his Hits Radio show this week and they had a lot to talk about!
Sam asked the BRITs nominee if he would be lining up any collaborations with fellow nominees this year?
“If Harry Styles came up to me and went ‘I’d love to do a tune’ I’d be like sweet bruv let’s do it but I wouldn’t go up to Harry and go ‘I’d love to do a tune’ because he’d be like ‘who are you mate? He’d definitely be like that,” Tom admitted.
He said that he has met Harry before, just after he’d bought a new Tesla and was trying it out. He asked Tom what he thought of it, to which he answered, it’s ‘decent’.
“It was only brief, but he was sound and if I walk past him in the BRITs, I’d be like congrats on both the Grammy’s. He’s killed it man,” Tom added.
The one person Tom really does want to meet is Lizzo, who along with Styles is performing at Saturday night’s ceremony: “Lizzo is the person I want to meet – I think me and Lizzo would get on well. I need a bit of that energy man,” he said.
The admission led Sam to do a bit of role play with Tom practising how he would ask Lizzo for a collaboration!
Sam also heard all about the aftermath of a prank that he set up on air Tuesday night when he swapped phones with guest Mimi Webb and messaged Tom, pretending to be Mimi, asking if they should wear matching outfits to the BRITs this weekend.
Tom said: “I felt bad I blue ticked her man, but when I got the message I was like ‘what the hell?’ I was just at home watching something on the TV and I was like that can’t be real. My missus was there, and I was like ‘look at that I can’t do that!’ So, I was like I’ll come back to that. And whilst I was planning how to let her down gently, she rang me and went ‘By the way…’
“I said thank you for calling cos that was going to be awkward man! I really thought it was her when I read it I was like ‘I can’t do this it’s too much pressure’.”
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