5. Being dropped from a season of The Voice did not go down wel
After featuring in the first four series of The Voice, Sir Tom was unceremoniously dropped from the 2016 series – the last to be shown on the BBC. And he wasn’t happy about it.
“I was p****d off. I never got to the bottom of who made the decision,” he told the Radio Times.
“It was between the production company Wall to Wall and the BBC, and I still don’t know why. The first thing I thought was, ‘Why have they left it so late in the day?’ When we got the call, we said, ‘When did you make this decision?’ ‘Yesterday. And we’re going to give it to the press tomorrow.’ Oh, that’s nice!”
He added he’d been better treated when he used to work on building sites: “Well of course that’s a kick in the b******s. When I used to work in factories or on a building site, you’d get a week’s notice at least! They don’t call you up the day before and say, ‘Sorry, don’t come in tomorrow’. You don’t make a decision like that overnight. The decision was made earlier but they just didn’t let me know.”