Will Young forced to apologise after he SWEARS live on air during an appearance on Saturday Brunch

Will Young was forced to apologise after swearing during an appearance on Channel 4’s Saturday Brunch morning show.

The 45-year-old Pop Idol winner left presenters Simon Rimmer and Tim Lovejoy in shock after he turned the air blue as he recalled an incident at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Will remembers sitting in the front row at a comedy show and discovering that the comedian’s jokes were made entirely at his expense.

Proverb: “Most of her show was about me, which I’m sure wasn’t very nice of her, and I had a front row seat.”

“She said, ‘I don’t know what to do because my show makes fun of Will Young and Will Young is sitting up front.'”

Presenter Tim quickly jumped in, turned to the camera and said: ‘I must apologize for using that word.

When Will realized his mistake, he threw his hands over his mouth in fright and shouted, “Oh, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry! Is that a dirty word? Was that it? I’m so sorry.”

This came after the singer said he felt ‘pressured’ to continue with Strictly Come Dancing after threatening to quit the show due to his severe agoraphobia.

He quit the BBC show in 2016, claiming in a new interview that he was warned the network would “never work with him again” if he decided to step down from the programme.

At the time, Will cited “personal reasons” and “fear” as the reason for his departure from the show and that of his partner Karen Hauer after the third week, and he said he had gone to therapy after contemplating suicide after leaving.

However, speaking to Rylan Clark on his BBC podcast How to be in the spotlight, Will says: ‘I tried to get out, but I felt some kind of pressure to do it.’

‘It was like, “Well, if you pull out, the BBC will never work with you again.”‘

“That was one of the things that was said to me, so I did it, but I knew I wasn’t good enough.”

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He continued, “You know, when you get flashbacks and all that stuff, for me that was agoraphobia.”

“So agoraphobia was really bad for me. So literally during that whole phase I didn’t even know where I was. ‘I’m on that show. If you ever watch it back, I wasn’t even in the room.’

“People were messaging me like, this is not good, you’re not feeling well. But I was trying to get out of it. I just had such agoraphobic anxiety. I could barely get to the studio to rehearse.”

Will left the show after his Bollywood theme Salsa to Jai Ho, as he explained: ‘Although the Bollywood dance was good. I still watch it sometimes. Because I’m really proud of it.’

‘I was like, “No, no, this isn’t going to work, I’m not doing this anymore.” Literally after that night.’

‘Also, people were pushing for money… I didn’t necessarily have the people behind me at that time who were very supportive.’

Elsewhere, Will also spoke candidly about his relationship with his late twin brother, saying she confronted him with the fact that fame had turned him into a “machine.”

Will’s twin brother Rupert committed suicide in 2020 after battling alcoholism for years. But before he died, he told the singer he didn’t understand why he had become so “hard as steel” and “cold.”

Will said: ‘I may have become a little bit too hard-hearted and I remember my late brother saying to me, ‘You’ve become a bit cold,’ because I think I hated it so much.’

“I remember it was so sad. I could have cried because he was crying. He was like, ‘I don’t understand what happened.’

“I think I was so focused in my head. I thought, ‘You’ve got to get through those five years to have a career.’

‘So, all that shit, all that stuff, I think it made me a bit machine-like. I wanted to be a famous singer since I was four. [and then] ‘My first gig was at Wembley.’

Will previously spoke of his grief following Rupert’s death and the pain the family felt as they dealt with his alcoholism.

He told BBC Breakfast: ‘I miss my brother, he was my twin and my best friend, but I don’t miss the alcoholic.

‘I think alcoholism is not talked about enough. It is important to tell what it is like to live with someone who has alcoholism in the family and what that can do to a family.

“It was hard, but it’s amazing what we do out of love for people. I just didn’t want my brother to die. Ultimately, I couldn’t keep him alive, and that’s part of my grieving process.”