Paul Weller has revealed that he once auditioned for the 70s TV talent show Opportunity Knocks in a bit to make it big with The Jam.
Weller, 50, said the band were turned down for the ITV show - which was fronted by presenter Hughie Green - because they weren't good enough.
the star made his embarrassing revelation in the latest issue of Q during his chat with Duffy for the magazine's cover feature.
Weller, who during the band's early years was renowned as an 'angry young man' admits he has no idea how the show would have affected their career if they had been included in the show - but says he is glad they failed.
"Our guitarist's girlfriend at the time, she wrote off to get us an audition for Opportunity Knocks." Weller explained. "She was going 'oh, it'll be great, you can go and audition and get on telly.' So she wrote off and they asked us to audition. I thought, 'fuck off'. But luckily they turned us down.
"We played them a few of our own tunes. I can barely remember doing it, but we were so shit. And thank God. I don't want to think what would have happened if we'd ended up getting on."
10:04 AM | 21/07/2008
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