Then, on ITV’s This Morning, 74-year-old Bob Geldof was slammed for repeatedly referring to the non-binary singer as “he,” instead of their chosen pronouns, prompting backlash from viewers.
“Holly and Phil should have pulled him up on that. Ridiculous,” one person fired, per the Mirror.
“He’s on national TV and speaking about Sam Smith. You’d think someone would brief him on Sam’s gender identity or at least correct him. Painful watch,” another shared.
Meanwhile, another said: “Give all those ‘Best Male’ awards you won and [profited] from back and we will talk, Sam.”
‘That fella’
More recently, TV presenter Lorraine Kelly has come under fire for misgendering Smith during a segment on her talk show. While discussing the singer’s red-carpet appearance at the Barbie movie premiere with guest Vogue Williams, Kelly referred to Smith multiple times using male pronouns.
“It’s a bit big for him,” Smith said. “If he was my son, I’d be saying, ‘Son, that’s too big for you’… He’s going to stand out. He knows what he’s doing, does that fella.”
Williams, in contrast, used Smith’s correct pronouns, stating that they would “certainly stand out on the red carpet.”
‘He’s a bloke’
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