BLUNDERWALL: Oasis just slapped the BBC in the face right before the World Cup semi-final.
BLUNDERWALL: Oasis Just Slapped The BBC In The Face Right Before The World Cup Semi-Final
It was supposed to be the BBC’s big, feel-good, viral moment before England’s biggest game in years.
Instead, it’s turned into a total PR car crash — and Oasis have just pulled the plug.
The Plan That Backfired
With the Lionesses marching into the World Cup semi-final, the BBC clearly wanted in on the bandwagon. So bosses reportedly splashed the cash on an all-star charity-style cover of “Wonderwall”.
We’re talking a full line-up: Stephen Fry, Maya Jama, Michael McIntyre, Emma Raducanu and a host of other famous faces, all belting out the 1995 classic for a glossy promo clip.
The idea? Pure, unfiltered English optimism. The reality? Absolute agony.
According to insiders, the video was meant to air across BBC One, iPlayer and socials in the 24 hours before kick-off. The kind of thing your mum shares on Facebook with three lion emojis.
There was just one tiny problem.
Someone at the Beeb forgot to actually clear the song.
Noel and Liam Are NOT Having It
Oasis, never ones to suffer fools gladly, wasted precisely zero time.
As soon as the clip went live to staff for approval, lawyers acting for the band fired off a cease-and-desist demanding the video be taken down immediately.
A source close to the production told us: “It was chaos. The rights team went white. No one had secured the sync licence for ‘Wonderwall’ because everyone assumed someone else had done it. By the time Oasis’s people got wind of it, they were furious.”
And let’s be honest, you do not want to get on the wrong side of the Gallaghers right before a World Cup semi-final.
The BBC has now been forced to bin the entire video. Thousands of pounds in studio time, editing and talent fees — all for nothing. It never even made it to air.
“The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen”
A low-quality leak of the clip did the rounds on X before the takedown, and even England’s most loyal fans were begging for it to be deleted.
One viewer wrote: “This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen.”
Another said: “Stephen Fry singing Wonderwall like he’s at karaoke after three sherries. Make it stop.”
A third summed it up perfectly: “The BBC thought this would go viral. It did, for all the wrong reasons.”
It’s classic BBC. Grand ambitions, massive budget, and absolutely no one thought to double-check the most important bit.
Instead of firing up the nation, they’ve managed to annoy the biggest band in the country and left themselves with a gaping hole in their semi-final build-up coverage.
Wonderwall? More like Blunderwall.
Did you manage to catch the clip before the lawyers stepped in?
