Olly Murs Has a Black Friday London Terror Scare Conspiracy Theory

Since being bizarrely embroiled in a false-alarm terror scare on London's Oxford Street last November, it appears that Olly Murs – he of The X Factor, he of The Voice – has gone full truther. In his first interview about the events of 24 November 2017, he has revealed that he thinks there's more to the story than the public know, telling The Sun: “Something happened that day. Whether it was covered up, I don’t know.” I mean… something did happen, Olly. But once the initial news panic dust had settled, that turned out to be something far less menacing than people had thought.

If you're not familiar with this truly next level piece of news, basically the story goes like this: last November, on Black Friday, two men fighting in Oxford Circus underground station set off rumours of a terror scare. Soon, shoppers were locked inside stores and cafes in central London, buses were rerouted from the vicinity of the station and Oxford Circus itself was put on lockdown. Amid all of this chaos was Olly Murs, who was apparently just trying to buy a massage chair in department store Selfridges. At the time, he tweeted the following to his 8 million Twitter followers:

Obviously, this looked a bit… premature when later it was confirmed that no firearms had been discharged, though Murs is convinced that something untoward did happen. He said, "I ran into an office after being told by the staff of Selfridges that someone was there with a gun. Whether they were shooting into the air, or whatever, something happened that day – whether it was covered up, I don’t know.”

He continued, detailing his experience of attempting to buy a massage chair:

The Sun story confirms that Murs did not hear gunshots himself, but was informed of them by Selfridges staff. He is, however, convinced that there's more to the story than we know, adding "Something happened, it was a bit of murky situation."

Well, now you know.

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