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The BBC are reportedly planning to fill the Glastonbury-shaped hole in their schedule with a huge charity concert in honour of late David Bowie, marking ten years since his tragic death.
Organiser Emily Eavis previously confirmed the festival would not be going ahead in 2026 with it being a fallow year to ‘to let the land rest’.
Plans are already said to be underway for the star-studded concert which will take at London’s O2 and will be transmitted worldwide with the BBC ‘throwing everything’ at the gig.
Music legend David died in January 2016 aged 69, just two days after he released his final album Blackstar.
The line-up will feature ‘world’s greatest young artists’ who have been inspired by the hitmaker, with proceeds going to the Teenage Cancer Trust and the music therapy charity, Nordoff and Robbins.
A source said: ‘Organisers want the event to be seen as a thank you to David Bowie and a celebration of his continued influence among today’s artists.’
The BBC are reportedly planning to fill the Glastonbury shaped hole in their schedule with a huge charity concert in honour of late David Bowie (pictured 2003)
They told The Mirror: ‘They see this as the jewel in the crown of their summer music plans in a year without Glastonbury. They are throwing everything at it’.
BBC declined to comment when approached by Daily Mail.
It comes after David’s daughter Lexi Jones, 25, insisted she does ‘not blame her family’ following the revelation that she was ‘forcibly’ removed from her home and sent to multiple treatment centres, forcing her to miss her father’s final days
She took to Instagram to explain that her previous post had not been to ‘assign fault’ but in hopes of helping others like herself who had also battled depression, drug addiction and an eating disorder.
In a statement, she said she held no resentment towards her loved ones and understood that they were trying their best to help her through something that ‘none of them fully understood at the time’.
Taking to social media Lexi, whose mother is 70-year-old supermodel Iman, shared a statement which read: ‘I’ve seen a lot if interpretations of what I shared and I want to clarify something important’.
‘My story was never meant to place blame on my parents. I love my parents deeply and I don’t hold resentment towards them. They were trying to help a child who was struggling in ways none of us filly understood at the time. I never shared this to create a narrative of family conflict’.
Organiser Emily Eavis previously confirmed that the festival would not be going ahead in 2026 with it being a fallow year to ‘to let the land rest’ (2025 festival pictured)
‘What I as trying to talk about was the experience of being a young person inside the teenage treatment system and how it feels while it is happening. Those feelings can exist at the same time as love for the people who were trying to help you. Both things can be true’.
‘I shared my experience because many people who have been through similar programs carry confusion and silence around it. Hearing from others who related has already shown me the messaged reached who it was meant to reach’.
She went on: ‘I’m not asking anyone to speculate about my family or assign fault to anyone in my life. My intention is conversation and understanding about a system, not judgement of individuals’.
Before adding: ‘I spoke about something that shaped me in hopes someone else might feel less alone in theirs’.
Lexi previously described how she was just 14 when two men ‘well over six feet tall’ came to take her to a treatment facility.
She also recalled her father writing her a heartfelt letter when revealing the decision to send her to the facility, which read: ‘I’m sorry we have to do this.’
