Lorraine Kelly fans have branded her interview with Norah Jones on Thursday ‘awkward’ and ‘cringe’.
The TV presenter, 64, had the American singer, 44, as a guest on his ITV show to discuss the release of her ninth studio album, Visions.
However, the interview did not impress the viewers, who found it very stilted and difficult to watch.
Many commented that Norah gave very short answers to Lorraine’s questions and didn’t seem willing to open up without a lot of prodding.
Lorraine gushed: ‘I can’t believe it’s been 20 years since you first exploded onto the scene’, to which Norah cut her off to correct: ’22, 22 years. It’s nice, yes.
Lorraine Kelly fans have branded her interview with Norah Jones on Thursday ‘awkward’ and ‘cringe’
The TV presenter, 64, had the US singer, 44, as a guest on his ITV show to discuss the release of her ninth studio album, Visions
However, the interview did not impress the viewers, who found it very stilted and difficult to watch
The host then asked about Norah’s upcoming tour and whether she would bring her two children, aged nine and seven, with her or keep work and family separate.
Norah replied: ‘No, I do both, I try to do a lot in the summer so they can get out more.’
Lorraine then brought up her songs that were used in movies, pointing to her song with Danger Mouse, Black, that was used in the hit show Breaking Bad.
Lorraine asked: ‘When you watch something and your song comes on, it must be amazing?’
Norah – whose hits include Don’t Know Why and Come Away with Me – replied: ‘Well you usually know because you have to give approval but yeah it was cool.’
Viewers watching at home took to social media to blast Norah as ‘rude and difficult to interview’, while pitying Lorraine for trying to keep the chat going.
One person wrote: ‘Poor #Lorraine. It was a tough interview with Norah Jones and her 2 word answer! Seems a bit up himself.’
While another echoed: ‘Don’t think Norah will be there’ and a third added: ‘Totally agree, Lorraine tends to make it seem like hard work.’
Many commented that Norah gave very short answers to Lorraine’s questions and seemed unwilling to open up without a lot of prodding
Viewers watching at home took to social media to blast Norah as “rude and difficult to interview”, while pitying Lorraine for trying to keep the chat going
A fourth tweeted: ‘Gosh I feel for @reallorraine, not sure Norah Jones is a morning person even though she got fired up talking about pottery. Well done to persistent Lorraine #awks’.
Another agreed, fuming: ‘For someone I only know from one song years ago, Norah Jones was very rude and difficult to interview on #lorraine’.
While a sixth wrote: ‘Poor #Lorraine with Norah Jones. One word answer! Considering she hasn’t been in the limelight for years, she must have forgotten how to talk!! #shrink’.
And another commented: ‘Damn this interview is so awkward’, while an eighth replied: ‘I thought so! Taste of Meg Ryan on Parkie’.
Michael Parkinson infamously interviewed Meg Ryan in 2003 on his BBC talk show to promote her film In the Cut.
The actress gave a series of short answers and seemed to want to be somewhere else, prompting the talk show veteran to hit back saying she was ‘careful with reporters’ and ‘didn’t like being interviewed’.
He later asked: ‘If you were me, what would you do now?’, to which Meg ordered him to: ‘Just wrap it up.’
Michael branded ‘beautiful Meg’ an ‘unhappy woman’, blaming her irritated facial expressions and stand-offish behavior for her film’s poor performance.
Michael Parkinson infamously interviewed Meg Ryan in 2003, where the actress gave a series of short answers and seemed to want to be somewhere else, prompting him to snap back (pictured)
Meg branded him a ‘nut’ while he later apologized and admitted being ‘angry and pompous’ but added they were both to blame for the frosty incident (pictured 2019)
As Meg hit back, branding the late journalist a ‘nut’, she said that she felt he criticized her for being naked in the film and said she was ‘so offended by him’.
Michael later apologized for the car crash, admitting to being ‘angry and pompous’, but added that they were both to blame for the frosty incident.
In 2021, two years before his death last year, he told the Radio Times: ‘I wish I hadn’t lost my temper with Meg Ryan. I wish I had handled it in a more polite manner.
‘I was clearly angry with her and it’s not my business to be angry with the guests. I came across as somewhat pompous and I could have done better.’
Asked what he would say to her now, he replied: ‘I’m sorry. But you also played a part in it. None of us were in top form.’
Since bursting onto the scene in 2002, Norah has won numerous awards and sold more than 50 million albums.
Come Away with Me has been certified diamond in the US and has sold more than 26 million copies worldwide.
She has won nine Grammy Awards and was named the best jazz artist of the 2000s by Billboard.
Since bursting onto the scene in 2002, Norah has won numerous awards and sold more than 50 million albums (pictured in 2014)
She has won nine Grammy Awards and was named the best jazz artist of the 2000s by Billboard (pictured at the Grammys in February 2023)