‘Very sorry. I’ll learn to do that’: Richard Madeley apologizes for confusing Sam Smith’s gender non-binary during debate over whether his new music video is ‘oversexualized’
Good Morning Britain presenter Richard Madeley has apologized for confusing Sam Smith on the Monday morning show.
Richard, 66, had been debating whether Sam’s latest music video for I’m Not Here To Make Friends is too sexualized when the slip-up occurred.
Sam, 30, is non-binary and uses the pronouns they/them and Richard was talking about the scenes in Sam’s video, when he accidentally referred to them as ‘he’.
Sorry: Richard Madeley apologized for mistaking the gender of non-binary Sam Smith on Monday’s GMB during a debate about whether his new music video is ‘oversexualized’
Co-anchor Susanna Reid, 52, corrected Richard’s mistake, and he apologized.
The video for Sam’s new single sees them arrive at a castle in a helicopter before dancing provocatively in corsets, suspenders and nipple tassels.
And while a panel was discussing the video, Richard told a guest that “they were right” and was informed that they also use they/them pronouns.
Richard apologized a second time, saying: ‘I’m so sorry. I will learn to do that.
More to Come: Gloria, Sam’s fourth studio album, was released on Friday and is the first LP they’ve released in three years.
Gloria, Sam’s fourth studio album, was released on Friday and is the first LP they have released in three years.
It was dropped after almost a year of public preparations from Sam, who released his first single Love Me More in April 2022.
The Money on My Mind songwriter then took TikTok by storm with his viral hit single Unholy featuring German-born American singer Kim Petras.
Wild: The video for Sam’s new single sees them arrive at a castle in a helicopter before dancing provocatively in corsets, suspenders and nipple tassels.
The track reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the pair’s first song to reach the top spot for the pair.
Sam revealed Friday that they were spat at in the street after coming out as non-binary.
The Grammy winner changed his gender pronouns to they/them in 2019 and said he wishes he had done it sooner, but he also opened up about the shocking reaction.
Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, the pop star revealed that while there have been no issues with his new gender identity in his personal life, they have been bullied on the streets of England ever since they came out.
They explained: ‘I think all the negative aspects of the struggle have been in my public life and my work. And just the amount of hate and sh*t that was thrown at me was just exhausting.
‘I was on the damn news. Someone spat on me in the street. It’s crazy. What’s hard for me is, if that’s happening to me and I’m famous, I’m a pop star, can you imagine what other kids feel like, like queer kids?
“And it’s so sad that we’re in 2023 and it’s still happening. It’s exhausting and especially in England.
Sam added: ‘So we have two sides, really. My personal life and then my public life. And in my personal life, there is nothing negative.
‘My family, they can communicate with me. They always did. But now they communicate with me in an even better way. My love life has improved because of it. I feel adorable. I feel comfortable in my skin, but I wear what I want to wear.
‘Since I changed my pronouns, it felt like coming home. I wish I knew what the words were when I was in school, because he would have identified me that way in school. Because it is what I am and it is what I have always been.’
Shame: Sam revealed Friday they were spat at in the street after coming out as non-binary