The English performer, famed for his number one hit You’re Beautiful, was in Poland last weekend headlining the Life Festival at the MOSiR stadium in Oświęcim, southern Poland, not far from the Auschwitz Nazi WW II death camp.
When in Poland, the singer posted a picture on his Facebook site of himself outside a seemingly derelict, incomplete building, with the caption, “Err... This is my hotel in Poland.”
Blunt's post has since clocked up over 17,000 comments, the lion's share of them bashing the singer for mocking Poland. Among other insults,some have said that he should “never come back.”
Newspapers both in Poland and abroad have mistakenly reported that the picture was taken in the vicinity of Auschwitz, yet as Blunt later clarified on Wednesday morning, after several days of abuse, the photo was indeed taken in Krakow, where he was staying.
“The picture I took really was part of my hotel,” he wrote on his Twitter account this morning.
“It was in Krakow, which, by the way, is a beautiful city.”
Blunt was staying in the five-star Art Hotel Niebieski on the banks of the River Vistula.
The hotel, a favourite of British historian Professor Norman Davies, was recently given a major extension.
The derelict building which the singer snapped does indeed adjoin his hotel, and appears to be a further extension.
However, in reality, it is a block of flats, the construction of which ground to a halt many months ago, after an apparently over eager investor overstretched himself. (nh/pg)