ON THE SEASON OPENER OF GAME OF THRONES, BRITISH SINGER ED
SHEERAN HAD A CAMEO.
YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THE SINGER, LITTLE BIT DARK, IT IS THE WOODS
AFTER ALL, AND A FUN TRIVIA FACT, THE WORLD THAT GAME OF
THRONES IS SET ON DOES NOT ACTUALLY HAVE A MOON.
IF WE GO TO THE NEXT ONE, WHAT TO SEE A PICTURE, THEN
LAUGHING ALONG.
HE HAD TWO LINES AFTER SINGING A LITTLE BIT.
IN FACT, BRETT IDENTIFIED HIM BASED ON THE VOICE BEFORE HE
ACTUALLY SHOWED HIS FACE ON THE SHOW, AND YOU MIGHT THINK,
THAT'S INTERESTING, LITTLE CAMEO, THEY'VE DONE IT BEFORE
WITH SINGERS ñ NOT AS HIGH-PROFILE NECESSARILY, BUT
THEY HAD SINGERS ON BEFORE.
BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE NOT HAVING IT, AND THERE WAS THIS
UPROAR ONLINE, THAT A CELEBRITY WOULD DARE TO HAVE A CAMEO
APPEARANCE, LIKE ED SHEERAN.
IT IS BELIEVED TO BE RELATED TO THAT THAT ED SHEERAN TOOK
HIMSELF OFF TWITTER.
OF COURSE THIS IS NOT ACTUALLY THE FIRST TIME THAT THIS
HAS HAPPENED.
A FEW MONTHS BACK HE SAID THIS: "I'VE ACTUALLY COME OFF
TWITTER COMPLETELY.
I CAN'T READ IT.
I GO ON IT AND IS NOTHING BUT PEOPLE SAYING MEAN THINGS.
ONE COMMENT RUINED YOUR DAY, BUT THAT'S WHY HAVE COME OFF IT."
HIS COMMENT ABOUT PEOPLE SAYING MEAN THINGS, WE'VE LOOKED
INTO IT AND IT WAS ACTUALLY TRUE.
HE RECENTLY CAME BACK ON IT, HE DOESN'T READ IT HE SAYS,
BUT HE DOES TWEET SIMILAR HOWEVER, HIS ACCOUNT WENT
DOWN AFTER THE UPROAR OVER HIS APPEARANCE.
I HAVE A LOT OF THINGS TO SAY.
NUMBER ONE, WHEN JOHN SAID THAT BRETT CALLED IT WHEN WE
WERE WATCHING IT LIVE, I WAS THINKING, DID WE ALL WATCH
IT LIVE?
ACTUALLY WE DO, AND YOU GUYS CAN WATCH IT WITH US.
WE COVER IT ON WHAT THE FLICK?
YOU WATCH IT AT HOME, WE WATCH IT HERE AND WE DO BASICALLY
PLAY-BY-PLAY, BUT WE TALKED VERY LITTLE BECAUSE IT'S GAME OF
THRONES LET'S BE REAL.
BUT BRETT DID SAY WHILE WE WERE WATCHING IT LIVE, IS THAT ED
SHEERAN?
NO, I SAID, THAT'S ED SHEERAN.
IT WASN'T A QUESTION, THERE'S NO QUESTION WHEN YOU HEAR THE
DULCET TONES OF THAT GINGER.
WE WANTED IN THE STUDIO, AND THEN WE DO A REVIEW OF IT
IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER, SO GO TO YOUTUBE.COM/WHATTHEFLICKSHOW, TO
CATCH ALL OF THOSE REVIEWS AS WE ARE DOING IT LIVE, AND
AFTERWARDS YOU CAN SEE THE REVIEW.
AND ONTO THIS, WHY ARE PEOPLE UPSET ABOUT THIS?
I HAVE NO IDEA.
I LOVE GAME OF THRONES, WE HAVE BEEN REVIEWING IT ALL THESE
YEARS, AND I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY.
PEOPLE LOVE ED SHEERAN, HE'S A GREAT SINGER.
SO HE DOESN'T HAVE HATERS.
I MEAN, EVERYBODY HAS HATERS ONLINE, AS YOU'VE MENTIONED,
BUT I THINK IT WAS THE WAY IN WHICH HIS CAMEO PLAYED OUT.
IT WAS THE LIKE...
FREEZE ON ED SHEERAN, AND THEN FOR ME I WAS PICTURING ALL THE
TIMES THEY JUST DID LIKE, ALL RIGHT ED, SAY YOUR LINE 5
TIMES, DIFFERENT WAYS.
HE HAD TWO LINES.
HE MAY AS WELL AS HAD A MARQUEE WITH NEON LIGHTS GOING, ED
SHEERAN, TONIGHT ONLY!
REALLY?
YES, TO ME IT TAKES YOU COMPLETELY OUT OF IT.
NOW, IT WAS A MOMENT, A SHORT MOMENT, PEOPLE ARE
INTERACTING, AND HIS VOICE, WHEN I HEAR IT, TAKES ME BACK TO
BEING A KID, I DON'T KNOW WHY.
I WAS LIKE, 30 WHEN HE BECAME POPULAR.
BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO HAVE CAMEOS ON GAME
OF THRONES, BUT I HAVEN'T YET SEEN IT IN A WAY THAT TAKES
YOU COMPLETELY OUT OF IT.
WHEN I SAW IAN MCSHANE, WHEN HE DID HIS CAMEO IT WAS LIKE, YES!
WELL HE'S AN ACTOR.
HE'S AN ACTOR FROM AN HBO SHOW, I'M SO INTO IT, AND THEY DO THAT
ALL THE TIME, BUT WITH ED SHEERAN IT WAS LIKE, HE WAS
THERE TO SING WELL, AND ACT OKAY.
I DON'T THINK YOU ARE QUALIFIED TO TALK ABOUT THIS BECAUSE YOU
KNOW WHO ED SHEERAN IS.
I'M THE PERFECT TEST CASE, BECAUSE ñ
I PREPPED FOR THIS, I STILL BARELY KNOW WHO HE IS.
BUT GOING INTO THE EPISODE I HAD NEVER HEARD OF THIS PERSON
BEFORE.
HE SEEMED LIKE A FINE SINGER.
I ACTUALLY THOUGHT IT WAS A DIFFERENT GROUP BECAUSE OF
THE SINGING.
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?
THAT YOU DON'T KNOW WHO ED SHEERAN IS?
I'M WORSE THAN HIM.
WHEN YOU SAID IT DURING THE SHOW, I THOUGHT HE WAS A
COUNTRY SINGER.
HE VERY WELL COULD BE.
MY POINT IS, I DID NOT KNOW WHO HE WAS, AND IF YOU HADN'T
SAID ANYTHING I WOULD NOT HAVE THOUGHT THERE WAS ANYTHING
WEIRD.
HE WAS TO SOME GUY WHO SANG AND HAD TWO LINES.
WE FOCUSED ON IT TOO MUCH, HE LOOKED LIKE EVERY OTHER
PERSON SHOWS UP ON GAME OF THRONES.
RACIST.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT.
I DON'T KNOW.
LET'S GET INTO WHY YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN THERE, BEFORE WE
RETURNED TO THE COMMENTARY.
HIS ACCOUNT WAS TAKEN AWAY, AND THEN REPORTS CAME THAT HE
WAS BACK, BUT THEY DELETED ALL OF HIS TWEETS, AND HE HAD
LESS THAN 200,000 FOLLOWERS ALL WE DOWN FROM 19
MILLION, WHICH MEANS I SHOULD KNOW WHO HE WAS.
THAT DUDE HAD 19 MILLION FOLLOWERS?
APPARENTLY.
HE'S DOWN TO LIKE 14
MILLION, SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE ANYMORE.
BUT THERE'S A REASON WHY HE SHOWED UP, AND IT'S NOT
JUST THAT HE'S FAMOUS.
ONE OF THE SHOW RUNNERS SAID THIS, BUT WE KNEW THAT MAISIE
WILLIAMS WAS A BIG FAN, AND FOR YEARS WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET
THEM ON THE SHOW, AND THIS YEAR WE FINALLY DID IT.
SHE'S PROBABLY CRAZY FOR HIM, IT'S A COOL LITTLE SURPRISE.
HE DID A GOOD JOB, GET OFF HIS ASS.
LEAVE HIM ALONE.
THAT'S AN OLD REFERENCE.
I'M BEGINNING NOW TO SEE WHY.
I'M WITH JOHN, I DID NOT AS ANYTHING DIFFERENT, BUT IF
IT WAS BEYONC…, IT MIGHT ñ YOU I'M SAYING?
IF ALL OF A SUDDEN WE ARE HAVING A SERIOUS GAME OF THRONES
MOMENT.
ARE YOU SAYING THAT ED SHEERAN IS BEYONC…?
I'M SAYING HE'S NOT.
I'M SAYING IT WAS A REALLY FAMOUS PERSON.
APPARENTLY HE'S REALLY FAMOUS.
RIGHT, AND A FIANC…
SHOWS UP IN THE MIDDLE OF A GAME OF
THRONES AND PERSONAE MIGHT BE A LITTLE DISTRACTED.
ANYWAY, THE MAIN THING I GOT OUT OF THIS IS THAT ED SHEERAN
IS WAY TOO SENSITIVE.
IF YOU LIVED IN OUR WORLDS.
I AM ON TWITTER, IT IS MOSTLY PEOPLE SAYING MEAN THINGS,
BECAUSE ALL THEY WANT TO DO IS BE MEAN, BUT THEY KNOW IF THEY
DO IT IN PERSON THEY'LL GET PUNCHED IN THE FACE, SO
THEY DO IT ONLINE.
BY JOHN.
BY ME, OR ANYONE ELSE THAT THEY WERE MEAN TO.
BUT FOR THE JOB, AND FOR THINGS OTHER THAN POLITICS ñ
BUT I UNDERSTANDABLY WANT TO LIKE, PROTECT THEIR SANITY
BY LEAVING IT.
HE'S NOT THE ONLY PERSON LEAVING IT.
TICKETS OKAY, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN IT, YOU
HAVE NO OBLIGATION TO EXPOSE YOURSELF TO THAT SORT OF
CONCENTRATED INSANITY.
HERE'S THE THING, ED SHEERAN WILL DO A CAMEO ON THE
SIMPSONS, WHICH IS A SHOW FOR CAMEOS.
I DON'T THINK THAT THE GAME OF THRONES IS A SHOW FOR THAT
KIND OF, LIKE, I WAS JUST ON THE SIMPSONS, AND DANCING WITH
THE STARS, NOW WHAT TO DO MY CAMEO ON GAME OF THRONES.
IT WAS A STRANGE, ALTHOUGH HE IS A SUPER TALENTED, EXTREMELY
ñ DESPITE WHAT THEY SAY, AND YOU PROBABLY KNOW ñ
EXTREMELY POPULAR SINGER, NOMINATED FOR THE HIGHEST
AWARDS IN THE LAND OF MUSIC.
OKAY, ANYWAY, I PARDON EVERYONE INVOLVED, AND ONE COMMENT
SHOULD NOT RUIN YOUR DAY.
IT WAS PROBABLY MORE.
I'M WORRIED THIS SETS A PRECEDENT WHERE PEOPLE WILL
WANT TO DO THESE CAMEOS ANYMORE, BECAUSE IF YOU DECIDED TO
SURPRISE ME WITH A CAMEO WERE LIKE, EMMA WATSON HAD A
COUPLE LINES ON TYT, I WOULD WANT YOU TO DO THAT.