James Blunt on Traitors: I tried - and failed - to get banished

Still the question remains. If he wasn't that keen to go the distance in the castle, why did he enter in the first place? Was it simply for the experience, or did he simply want to promote his new music?

"I think you may have hit the nail on the head with the latter," he grins.

"I don't think otherwise I would have signed up to be imprisoned in a castle in Scotland."

There's a method in his madness, though.

In Blunt's own estimation, his eighth album, Airplane Mode, is his best work in years.

Now, musicians make that claim all the time. Blunt himself basically told me the same thing about his last album, 2023's Who We Used To Be.