Olly Murs supports Cruz Beckham launching singing career aged 11
The Troublemaker singer told Eamonn and Ruth on This Morning that he thinks the star is a 'great kid'
CROONER Olly Murs has offered his support to Cruz Beckham as he launches his singing career aged just eleven years old.
Speaking on This Morning, Ruth Langsford cornered during a cooking segment on how he felt about Cruz releasing his first Christmas single at such a young age.
She asked him: "Everyone's talking about him this week, because he's released this charity single. And there are two camps - one saying 'aww bless him, isn't it lovely to see him out there singing' while others are saying 'oh, his parents Victoria and David are pimping out their son'. What do you make of it all?"
The 32-year-old star then told her: "It's Christmas! It's a Christmas song. We love Beckham don't we Eamonn?"
He then added: "I saw Beckham at the Jingle Bell Ball at the weekend, and I saw Cruz and he is such a great kid and he loves singing.
When pressed by Ruth whether he thinks the star is too young to be pursuing a song, Olly was quick to jump to his defence and said: "It's a Christmas song for charity! Come on, no. It's a Christmas song for charity. And with parents like David and Victoria, they'll look after him. He'll be absolutely fine!"
The presenter then teased: "Maybe you could do a duet with him!" to which Olly replied: "Oh, I don't know about that!"
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Cruz announced his festive single, If Every Day Was Christmas, at the beginning of this week on Capital FM - with the money raised going towards the Make Some Noise charity run by Global, who own the radio station.
However, while many fans praised him for his efforts, Piers Morgan slammed the move on Good Morning Britain and accused David and Victoria Beckham of "pimping him out on the Christmas pop single market".
But that doesn't seem to have stopped a host of musicians hoping to get to work with the young singer in the future - with Nicole Scherzinger saying that performing with him in the future would be "cool".
In an interview in Bromley for X Factor finalist Matt Terry’s homecoming, she said: “Victoria was just telling me about her son the other day. He’s just doing it all himself and she’s supporting him.
“I mean I would do a duet, she seems keen. But what, he’s how old? He’s like one year old. It would be cool. Yeah, I can do a duet with him. Maybe that will be my next thing.”
However, Cruz, who says he listens to Bruno Mars, The Vamps and Beyonce, revealed that if he could do a song with one artist it would be Ed Sheeran.
Ahead of the song's debut on Capital radio, he said: “I just love all of his songs. If anyone picked one of the songs, I’d just love it. And I love how he plays the acoustic guitar like me.”
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