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Daily Mirror
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Entertainment
Reanna Smith

Difference between BSL and Makaton as Olly Murs slammed over incorrect signing

Olly Murs has been criticised by the deaf community who have pointed out a major error in a recent video posted to his Instagram.

Earlier this week the singer posted a video of himself to the platform where he claimed to be signing his new song, Die of A Broken Heart, in British Sign Language (BSL).

He captioned the post: "Really wanted to learn Sign as part of my new song in BSL SSE for my deaf fans! Big thanks to @isabellasigns for teaching me and being very patient!

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