Overview

• He revisited the exchange on Steven Bartlett’s The Diary of a CEO podcast, five years after the interview.
• The 2020 appearance with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin followed the deaths of his mother in 2016 and sister Félicité in 2019.
• Tomlinson says his team provided a list of off‑limits topics that included his family losses, yet the presenters raised them.
• After the segment aired, he posted that he would not return to the show, prompting Walker to defend the questions as tied to a song about Tomlinson’s mum and not meant to upset.
• The latest reports note no new response from Walker or the BBC beyond the earlier defense.