Q: When You're the Best Selling Artist of the Decade, Share Jacuzzis ; A: Bluntly, No

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James Blunt has a unique problem. 'A lot of people out there just don't like me,' he says in a voice devoid of any emotion other than the slightest hint of surprise. 'I guess it's because of my music. It's my music they don't like.'

Is that it? It must be. I mean, what else could it be? He's a former captain of the Life Guards who served in Kosovo. He's really very good-looking. He's not a self-regarding obsessive, nor has he publicly disgraced himself, or done reality TV. So that's it - it must be the music. Which brings us to the unique nature of his problem; it can't be the music at all.

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Q: When You're the Best Selling Artist of the Decade, Share Jacuzzis ; A: Bluntly, No

Back To Bedlam, his first album, has just become the biggest- selling album of the millennium. It's sold more than 11 million worldwide. The No 1 song, You're Beautiful, which put him on the map in the first place, is officially the most played song on radio and has taken over from Robbie Williams's Angels as the most popular 'hatch, match and dispatch' anthem. Everyone loves James Blunt's music, even more (in terms of proportion of sales) than they loved Madonna or Oasis or the Stones, and none of those acts attracts the opprobrium heaped on Blunt.

He's not even an annoyingly good boy. He hangs out with Paris Hilton ...

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