Sam Smith has said they “didn’t mean any malice” by sharing a photo of themself appearing to cry during the lockdown. The 27-year-old singer posted an image on Instagram last month, showing them with their head bowed in apparent despair and captioned “Stages of a quarantine meltdown”.
Some disparagingly compared Smith’s response to that of 99-year-old Captain Tom Moore, who has raised more than £18 million for the NHS by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday on April 30.
Speaking on Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden, Smith said the humour of the post had not been “picked up very well”.