‘Jog on’: Olly Murs slams ‘melts’ who accused him of not knowing the lyrics to Oasis hit Live Forever

The singer was captured singing along to Liam Gallagher's tribute  
Listen up: Olly Murs is an Oasis fan... seriously
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Emma Powell22 February 2018
The Weekender

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Olly Murs has hit back at the “melts” who accused him of singing the wrong lyrics to Live Forever, insisting he knows “every word”.

The Voice judge, 33, was caught singing along to the Oasis hit as part of Liam Gallagher’s surprise tribute to the Manchester bombing victims at the Brit Awards.

But Murs appeared to stumble over the line “maybe I will never be” as the camera panned over him belting out the 90s hit.

The clip was shared by Radio X who accused him of not knowing the lyrics.

Failing to see the funny side, Murs hit back tweeting: “Oh p*** off know every word you melts.”

Adamant that he really does know the words to Live Forever he then posted his own clip of himself singing the song.

He captioned the post: “Slow news day for you melts! Jog on.”

Radio X later apologised, tweeting: “Seems we owe you an apology Mr. Murs! As you were.”

Presenter Toby Tarrant joked: “Much more impressively, I’ve heard Liam knows every word to Troublemaker.”

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Murs was one of many celebs who fell victim to a Jack Whitehall roasting on Wednesday night.

Whitehall, who took over hosting duties from Emma Willis and Dermot O’Leary, poked fun at Murs over his live-tweeting of a terror scare on Oxford Street last November.

Following Rag N Bone man and Jorja Smith’s performance, which featured pyrotechnics, Whitehall said: “That was a controlled blaze, by the way.

“Apparently Olly Murs was in the toilet tweeting about it.”

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