This Morning viewers slammed Blue for miming as they performed on Friday’s show.
The noughties boyband have reunited for a Greatest Hits Tour in 2024, which will start next month, to celebrate two decades together.
The comeback comes after Lee Ryan, 40, dodged jail after his racially aggravated assault on a black British Airways flight attendant whom he told: ‘I want your chocolate children’.
Lee was handed a 12-month suspended prison sentence in September after attacking Leah Gordon and behaving in an abusive way towards her, having earlier pleaded guilty to being drunk on the aircraft, for which he was handed a four-month jail term to run concurrently.
During their appearance on Friday’s show, fans were left unimpressed and accused Blue of miming to the medley, rather than singing live.
This Morning viewers slammed Blue for ‘miming’ as they prepare for comeback tour after Lee Ryan avoided jail after racially aggravated assault on BA flight attendant
The noughties boyband have reunited for a Greatest Hits Tour in 2024, which will start next month, to celebrate two decades together
Taking to X, formerly Twitter, viewers wrote: ‘Are they miming?’ and ‘You’d think after all these years they’d know how to mime right’.
‘god the miming lol’ and ‘If they were as good as they used to be they could have done that acapella’.
‘Thank the good Lord they WERE miming!!! (Especially Lee Ryan)’.
Others enjoyed the performance which brought back fond memories of the noughties.
They wrote: ‘having an unexpected Blue medley at 10am… love it’ and ‘Loving blue on This Morning’.
Speaking about their upcoming tour, Simon Webbe, 45, told hosts Dermot O’Leary and Josie Gibson: ‘We want to tell a lot of stories and just basically take people through memory lane.’
Antony Costa, 42, added: ‘It’s stories that people don’t know that we know and we want to tell the audience.’
The Blue boys will be touring across the UK in April and May 2024.
Taking to X, formerly Twitter, viewers wrote: ‘Are they miming?’ and ‘You’d think after all these years they’d know how to mime right’
The band formed in 2000 and went on to release three studio albums titled All Rise, One Love and Guilty (pictured in 2011)
Others enjoyed the performance which brought back fond memories of the noughties (pictured Duncan James)
The Blue boys will be touring across the UK in April and May 2024 (pictured Duncan and Simon Webbe)
Antony Costa, 42, said: ‘It’s stories that people don’t know that we know and we want to tell the audience.’
After announcing a hiatus in 2004, Duncan, Antony, Lee and Simon released their first compilation album, Best Of Blue
Lee was handed a 12-month suspended prison sentence in September after attacking Leah Gordon and behaving in an abusive way towards her
The band formed in 2000 and went on to release three studio albums titled All Rise, One Love and Guilty.
After announcing a hiatus in 2004, Duncan, Antony, Lee and Simon released their first compilation album, Best Of Blue.
The group first reunited in January 2011 and represented the UK in that year’s Eurovision Song Contest, coming in 11th place after a performance of I Can in Dusseldorf.
They went on to release two more studio albums, their fourth Roulette in 2013 and their fifth Colours in 2015.
In 2013, they joined groups including Liberty X, Atomic Kitten and 5ive to give a one-off gig as part of The Big Reunion.
When their tour was set to begin, it was pushed back after band member Lee was arrested after behaving in an ‘intimidating’ and ‘crazy’ manner during a flight from Glasgow to London City Airport.
He was handed a 12-month suspended prison sentence.
Passing sentence at Isleworth Crown Court, His Honour Judge Nicholas Wood told Ryan that he was fortunate to avoid an immediate custodial sentence – adding that the term was being suspended because of the remorse he had shown and because of the singer’s psychological condition.
The judge told Ryan: ‘You brought shame on yourself for this. I think you are aware of that.’
He added: ‘The language you used may be acceptable in the entertainment industry, but it has no place on an aircraft being directed by cabin crew.’
