BBC Breakfast fans floored by 'disappointing' reveal about beloved Christmas song | The Sun

BBC Breakfast fans have been floored by a 'disappointing' reveal about a beloved Christmas song.

Fridays programme saw Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt discuss the 40th anniversary of hit Christmas film, The Snowman.

The film featured the classic song Walking in the Air, and the presenters spoke to the man who first recorded it.

But many BBC Breakfast viewers were shocked to discover it wasn't Aled Jones who was being interviewed, and it was actually Peter Auty.

Peter performed the song as a 13-year-old choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral before the song was later recorded by Aled, now 51.

Peter, who is now regarded as one of Britain's leading tenors, said: "It's always a bit shocking every year to be in the shopping mall and wonder whether that's me or Aled singing."

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Charlie replied: "I was going to ask you about that, as a lot of people may be scratching their heads about it, even listening to you this morning, thinking 'do you know, I thought it was Aled Jones who did that song'.

"Give us the definitive who did what and why are we confused?"

Peter replied: "I'm a very good pub quiz question actually, but I think Aled was asked to sing in an advert for Toys 'R' Us a long time ago.

"And I think everyone had assumed that my voice had broken by that time, or there was some communication between me and my boarding house master at the time.

"I'm not entirely sure how I was passed by for that, but I was and he released the single before I did, or before someone did on my behalf and at one point I think we were both in the Top 40, he was number 11 and I was number 38, something like that.

"So then he was always then assumed to have done it himself."

BBC Breakfast viewers were indeed shocked by the revelation, as one wrote on Twitter: "For 40 yrs I've thought Aled Jones sung the "snowman" , how disappointing 😞 #bbcbreakfast."

Another added: "So wait – if Walking in the Air voice is Peter Auty why were we made to think it was Aled Jones? #bbcbreakfast."

A third tweeted: "I thought Aled Jones sang it. #BBCBreakfast."

However another shared: "It has been common knowledge for quite some time that Aled Jones was not the original singer of Walking In The Air. #bbcbreakfast."

BBC Breakfast airs daily from 6am on BBC One.

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