'I thought he was going to hit me...' Vernon Kay recalls run-in with Oasis singer Liam Gallagher
Ahead of the first show of Oasis' reunion tour at Cardiff's Principality Stadium on Friday night (04.07.25), Vernon Kay has recalled he once had a run-in with singer Liam Gallagher when he bumped into him at a Prodigy concert.
Vernon Kay was insulted by Liam Gallagher at a Prodigy gig after he asked whether the Oasis frontman was wearing fake tan.
The 51-year-old broadcaster has revealed Liam called him a "lanky b*******" after Vernon asked Liam if he'd had some help with his bronzed look back in 2009.
Writing a piece about the '90s Britpop band for The Sun newspaper, Vernon recalled: "Back in 2009, I was at a Prodigy gig when I bumped into Liam and his then-wife Nicole Appleton. They’d been on holiday and I’d had a couple of lagers and cheekily yelled at him, 'Is that fake tan you’re wearing?'
"For a minute, I thought he was going to hit me. He shouted, 'No, I’m f****** not you lanky streak of p***.'
"I think he then called me lanky b*******.
"But he’s brilliant company."
The BBC Radio 2 broadcaster is a massive Oasis fan and he will be attending the first show of Liam, 52, and Noel Gallagher's reunion tour at Cardiff's Principality Stadium on Friday (04.07.25) with his 16-year-old daughter Amber and his younger brother Stephen.
And Vernon insists Supersonic singer Liam would be among his top 10 dinner party guests.
Vernon said: "People ask, 'Who would be your top ten dinner party guests?'
"Well, Liam would certainly be one of mine. And I think you would want him to be the one who arrives last, with a 24-pack of Guinness, slamming them down on the table.
"Everyone would go, 'Alright then, let’s have one of them.'
"For me - and countless others - today’s show will be a return to the golden days of our youth."
Vernon - who also has another daughter called Phoebe, 20, with his wife, Strictly Come Dancing host Tess Daly, 56 - said Amber was left red-faced after she received a "sweet" gift from Noel, 58, when he and his band, The High Flying Birds, performed on BBC Radio 2's Piano Room in 2023.
Speaking about the thoughtful gesture on his Radio 2 show, Vernon said: "Noel signed a little something-something for her when he did Piano Room, which was really sweet.
“She went red – it's very rare that she goes flushed.
"But he wrote a lovely, simple message on it to her—he personalised it. It was great. It was really nice.”
