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Biffy Clyro drummer Ben Johnston has laughed off Nick Knowles' stories about how the rock group 'jammed' with the DIY:SOS presenter on a roof in Soho, leading to Nick landing a record deal.

The TV presenter hadn't been in the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! jungle for 24 hours before he began spinning yarns about impressing the group with his musical talents  - a story that has since led to him topping the iTunes charts this week.

Ben called into Greg James' Breakfast Show on Radio 1 on Thursday morning to set the record straight.

Fast and loose: Biffy Clyro drummer Ben Johnston [R] has laughed off Nick Knowles' [L] stories about how the rock group 'jammed' with the DIY:SOS presenter on a roof in Soho, leading to Nick landing a record deal

He told the radio host: 'I think he was being a bit fast and loose with the truth there. It wasn’t quite the Kumbaya situation he made it out to be.'

He explained: 'We were at the same party in Soho after an awards ceremony and Nick bought a bottle of champagne. There might have a been a guitar there but I don’t know.

'I won’t say a bad word against him he’s a nice guy but it wasn’t quite like that.'

Greg then suggested Nick support Ben's band on their next tour, which Ben agreed was a good idea.

Star caller: Ben called into Greg James' Breakfast Show on Radio 1 on Thursday morning to set the record straight

Shock rise: The TV presenter hadn't been in the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! jungle for 24 hours before he began spinning yarns about impressing the group with his musical talents - a story that has since led to him topping the iTunes charts this week

'Yeah he could put up and take down the stage with his DIY skills,' he joked.

Biffy Clyro seemed to encourage the rumours before Ben's appearance on Radio 1.

After Holly Willoughby and Declan Donnelly suggested the nation get '#BiffyClyroNotEmbarrassedTheyJammedWithNickKnowles' trending, the band were quick to tweet with the hashtag.

Nick originally dropped the band's name when he told campmate Emily Atack: 'I've always played, my brother's a really good musician and I've always played along with him and a couple of years ago. 

His version: Ben [L] told Greg, 'I think he was being a bit fast and loose with the truth there. It wasn’t quite the Kumbaya situation he made it out to be' [pictured with bandmates Simon Neil and James Johnston]

Number one: Nick's song topped the iTunes download charts on Wednesday

'Somebody heard me, I was playing on a rooftop bar in Soho with some other bands... it was Biffy Clyro.

'Somebody from a record company saw me doing it and I got a phone call saying, "I'm from Universal, want to do an album?"'

While one breakfast show was doing it's bit to sabotage Nick's music career, another was championing it.

Chris Moyles spearheaded a campaign on Radio X to get crooner Nick in the charts, which lead to his single, Make You Feel My Love, overtaking the likes of Cheryl, Lady Gaga and P!nk on Wednesday.

Kind: Nick's generosity in giving autistic campmate Anne Hegerty, 60, his pillow in the jungle, also won him an army of new fans

When Nick was at the top of the charts on Wednesday, Cheryl was perched at number 11 on iTunes. P!nk sat at number two, while Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's Shallow dropped down to position four after weeks of success.

But not everyone's a fan. Last year, Noel Gallagher slammed Nick's singing skills in an interview with Alan Carr's Chatty Man which aired on Christmas day.

He said: 'My delivery is better than that. I don't sound like I'm having a stroke when I'm singing it.'

Lagging behind: Cheryl currently sits at number 11 in the same chart despite lots of hype

Popular: Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's Shallow has dropped down to position four after weeks of success

Joining in on the digs, boisterous Chatty Man host Alan, added: 'His delivery was less album, more audiobook.'

Of his move into singing, Nick told MailOnline last year: 'I used to be the guitarist at school in a band but it was never going to turn into a career. 

'And then I started to do acting. That then led to TV work - mostly factual and news stuff. So I was busy trying to build a TV career.

'But with my TV work I went to Australia and Africa – and I took my guitar with me, to the ass-end of nowhere. I was always playing. It kept the wildlife awake.'

DIY make-up: Nick had an interesting look to promote his music back in 1996

Getting wiggy with it: A red hairpiece and backing dancers was all Nick needed back in the day

In his younger days, Nick also hosted gigs on Friday nights in one of the rooms of a local pub in London, when people leaving the West End shows would come and watch afterwards. 

He continued: 'Music has always played a big part of my life,' he said. 'With DIY:SOS, we are always away on location. So I'd take my guitar and whoever's on location with me, I'll play for them. We have had some great nights.' 

'I didn't seek this path, it found me really,' he said. 'I’m a story teller. I write scripts too. I have written a movie that toured around the world. These are all creative areas.

'It's a very British thing to stay in lanes. I got a tweet from a teacher about why I'm moving into music, and I was like "are you going to teach your students to only ever do one thing with their lives".' 

His new single, Make You Feel My Love, he thinks compliments his deep voice, and 'raised eyebrows' because he'd chosen to cover an Adele track.

'Actually it was written by Bob Dylan,' he said. 'So it was written for a male voice.'

What a woman: P!nk sits at number two with her song, A Million Dreams 

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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.

Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.

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