Chris Martin has certainly penned many beautiful love songs in his time, but that doesn’t mean he is the guy you enlist to help you propose to your beloved wife-to-be – especially when he manages to pull the wrong woman onstage.

“Keep it snappy my man, ‘cos people have gotta catch trains and shit”, he joked, although few could have predicted this would be the most romantic portion of the bungled proposal.

After pulling the girl from the audience and chatting briefly to her, Martin appeared in well over his head as he quickly realised his error. “Oh, you’re not the person he’s proposing to?”, he asked, after she corrected him. “Then what the fuck are you doing here?”

You tell us, Chris. Luckily, the proposal then went without a hitch, with the correct woman accepting the offer. Ah well, at least they have a nice story…

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