James Blunt claims Boris Johnson pulled out of buying his house

On Good Morning Britain, James Blunt has claimed Boris Johnson previously pulled out of buying his house.

Transcript

00:00 I was doing a bridging loan to buy a new house,

00:02 and at one stage I was getting no sleep,

00:04 and I started praying.

00:05 I'm not a religious person,

00:06 but I did turn skywards and say,

00:07 "Dear God, help me out of this huge issue

00:10 "of this socking great loan."

00:11 Now God doesn't normally deal with kind of high-end loans

00:14 to the well off, but he did.

00:17 God, the next day, sent someone who put a bid

00:20 and offered to buy my house,

00:22 and that person was Boris Johnson.

00:23 - No! - Boris Johnson bought your house?

00:25 - Six weeks later, he bailed out.

00:26 - Oh!

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