James Blunt Crowd-Surfs as Appleton Sisters and Blue Revive the Noughties at Radio 2 in the Park

A park full of 2000s hits

James Blunt crowd-surfed through Radio 2 in the Park as the Appleton sisters and Blue helped turn the BBC day into a noughties reunion, according to entertainment coverage published by the Daily Star on 14 September 2026.

The images circulating from the set show Blunt leaving the stage and travelling over the crowd — a pop-star gesture that still works when the songs are twenty years deep in public memory.

Why the bill landed

Blue and the Appleton sisters (the former All Saints pairing of Nicole and Natalie) gave the afternoon a precise era stamp. Radio 2’s park shows are built for that mix: familiar voices, daylight, and an audience that already knows the choruses.

For celebrity desks, the story was not a new single. It was the sight of established names behaving as if the early 2000s charts had never closed.

What it says about the circuit

Heritage pop is now a reliable live economy in Britain. A Radio 2 field can hold both nostalgia and a front-page photograph. Blunt supplied the photograph. The rest of the bill supplied the time machine.