ITV This Morning viewers disappointed with Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield over Bob Geldof's Sam Smith error

This Morning viewers have shared their disappointment on Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield as they failed to correct Sir Bob Geldof's error when he spoke about Sam Smith. The singer-songwriter and political activist joined the presenters live in the studio as he appeared on the ITV daytime show on Wednesday (February 22).

Sir Bob was on the show to remember his late the Boomtown Rats bandmate and childhood friend Garry Roberts who died in November, aged 72. The Irish rock group announced the news in a statement at the time which described Gary, a founding member of the iconic band, which formed in Dublin in 1975 with Sir Bob as frontman, as "the guy who summed up the sense of who The Rats are".

He also shared how the Boomtown Rats are paying tribute to him with their remastered single, ‘No Tomorrow Like Today.’ Sir Bob was also asked if he has any plans to celebrate the 40th anniversary of 'Do They Know It’s Christmas' which became the fastest-selling single of all time, raising millions for charity in 1984.

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Also during the conversation, singer Sam Smith was brought up as they recalled re-recording of the hit song in 2014, re-titled Band Aid 30 Do They Know It's Christmas?, to help the fight against Ebola.

However, Bob referred to the Stay With Me and Unholy hitmaker as 'he' when Sam used they/them pronouns as they identify as non-binary. "Sam Smith, I remember at the microphone he had his eyes closed and he was singing away the song and I said, 'Sam, they're not the words'. And he goes, 'Oh yeah, sorry,' as we had rewritten the words for the Ebola crisis in West Africa."

The 71-year-old continued to share how Sam had continued