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Robbie Williams is taking his robot OM

 

 

WHEN most people want to add a feature to their garden they buy a few rocks, plastic lining and some koi carp.

 

But Robbie Williams has bigger plans for his backyard in LA, and they'll make it look more like a scene from Blade Runner than Gardeners' World.

 

He's bagged the giant robot figure OM used on Take That's record-breaking Progress Tour in the summer.

 

I bumped into Jason Orange spending his earnings from the tour in Selfridges. He said: "Robbie's having OM – he claimed it during the tour. He's going to put it in his garden, it's typical Rob."

 

Robbie is having the metal structure broken up so he can have it reassembled at home on Mulholland Drive.

 

He must have loved Meccano as a kid.

 

The solo singer is still deciding exactly what to do with the robot, which is 100ft tall at its full height.

 

Another part of the Progress stage, The Big Man which sat above the band as they performed, has been sold for scrap – raising £13,000 for charity.

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His Beverley Hills neighbours will love that. Not! :lol:

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Strictly Come Dancing's Robbie Savage reveals the Robbie Williams reason he wants to stay in

 

Nov 18 2011

 

 

Robbie Savage wants to stay in this year's Strictly for as long as possible to give Robbie Williams a chance to come back to the UK to watch him.

 

The singer was reportedly set to fly back from Los Angeles if Savage made it to Wembley on the hit BBC1 ballroom show, but he will not be here this weekend when the former footballer takes to the dancefloor to his track Let Me Entertain You.

 

Savage said: "He's coming over but he's been delayed making his new album :w00t: so he's going to be coming but when I don't know. He might miss me now."

 

The former Leicester City player has climbed off his sickbed to appear at Wembley Arena this weekend.

 

He admitted he had been surprised by how exhausting it is putting in 60 hour weeks in preparation for dancing in front of the nation.

 

He said: "I'm a footballer. We do an hour a day training then go home."

 

Savage, who was sent home from training earlier this week after getting food poisoning, said he had refused to miss out this weekend.

 

He said: "I think you're allowed to take a bye if you're not well or if you get back problems or whatever but I'm not doing that.

 

"This was my goal to get here and I've got here and I'm going to give it my best shot."

 

 

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According to the SUN Robbie is showing Craig from the XF how to write songs :mellow: , his new VBF by the looks of things -_-

They'll be dreary songs then. Or they will be when Craig sings them :lol:

 

 

Bless. I quite liked him. :D

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/201...a?newsfeed=true

 

I'm connected to Robbie Williams! And Barack Obama!

 

Social networking has made the world so small that now you are only four connections away from anyone else. And Lucy Mangan can prove it

Six degrees of separation? Those days – the 1960s, when US social psychologist Stanley Milgram performed his "small-world experiment" and estimated that no one was more than six hops away from connection with anyone else – are over, my friend. Because you probably are a friend. Or at least a friend of a friend. In Facebook or Twitter terms, anyway. And that is how we arrive at the news of a new study claiming that, thanks to social-networking sites, the average degree of separation between people is now just 4.74.

 

Can it be true? Let us do a rigorous scientific test to find out:

 

• I'm Facebook, Twitter and real friends since law school with a woman who once danced with Robbie Williams when she was 16. Alas, she was shitfaced on Mad Dog 20/20 at the time and only remembers throwing up on a jacket – not even Robbie's jacket – afterwards. But still, she's absolutely sure it was him.

 

• A friend has a picture on her Facebook page of her at a rally in Washington shaking hands with Bill Clinton, who has met Barack Obama. So I am but three degrees of separation away from the leader of the free world. More importantly, Obama has been on The Daily Show, so I am only four from Jon Stewart, which makes us virtually married. Hurrah!

 

• I am Facebook friends – after she contacted me to thank me for something I wrote abut her late husband – with Gene Kelly's widow, which puts me two degrees away from one of my greatest heroes and within hailing distance of the rest of 50s Hollywood's finest too.

 

• Alas, I have no cyberconnection to him, but I did once meet Michael Portillo in real life, an unsettling experience I'll have to tell you about one day, which puts me two degrees away from Mrs Thatcher and therefore three from Satan himself, if the rumours about that Bilderberg group meeting in 1977 are true.

 

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Since when has Robbie been into any kind of dancing? He's got all the rhythm of a plant pot. :blink:
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X Factor: Robbie Williams shuns singers to talk UFOs with Johnny Robinson

 

 

ROBBIE Williams has struck up a bizarre new friendship – with UFO-loving X Factor reject Johnny Robinson.

 

The pop star turned up at the show’s studios on Sunday night with the intention of helping Gary Barlow with his remaining act Marcus Collins.

 

But he ended up spending most of his time discussing extra-terrestrials with camp singer Johnny, 45, backstage.

 

A show source said: “They got talking about aliens and UFOs and it was suddenly like they were old friends.

 

“They had a real connection and both believe in the paranormal so everyone else just left them to it.

 

“They were in their own little world talking about aliens and extraterrestrial things.

 

“Robbie sometimes goes out UFO ‘spotting’ and he even invited Johnny to go with him in the future. It’s an unlikely friendship that could grow.”

 

Robbie, 37, took part in this year’s X Factor as a guest judge alongside Gary when he was in LA to pick his final four male singers for the live finals.

 

But he had not met camp singer Johnny before because he was in the over 25s category.

 

Robbie did find time for a picture with Scouse singer Marcus, a chat with former contestant Jonjo Kerr and a hug with Kelly Rowland on Sunday night.

 

 

 

But he quickly became inseparable from his spacy new mate Johnny, who revealed: “Robbie was a gentleman, really lovely and polite and we had a long chat about UFOs as we are both interested in them.

 

“We’ve both seen UFOs and I have done a lot of research into it so Robbie was interested in talking about it. I think I like him more than Gary Barlow now – we have more in common.”

 

In 2008, Robbie spoke of his love of UFOs and aliens, saying: “Seriously, I want to go out and investigate these things.

 

“I’m stopping being a pop star and being a full-time ufologist.”

 

Williams also claims he has been visited by aliens on at least three occasions, and witnessed a “big strip of black light” while recording in LA.

 

Meanwhile, X Factor flop Janet Devlin has taken a swipe at the show by moaning she would still be in the contest if she “was a pop puppet”.

 

The 17-year-old says the ITV series only cares about bland pop tunes and does not want artists to express their musical ability.

 

She said: “I could have been a puppet and lasted longer. But I wanted to be myself. Singing someone else’s songs every week made me feel like a karaoke artist.

 

“I do wish we were given more of an opportunity to be musicians and express our artistic side.

 

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“But it is hard to get guitars and things synced up to backing tracks.”

 

She added: “I am not X Factor material and the songs I like and the songs I sing are not X Factor material.

 

“X Factor is something that can top the charts with popular music, that is what pop music is. I bring my own music and music that I like.”

 

Viewers saw her mentor Kelly refuse to vote in the sing-off, sealing Janet’s fate. She struggled to pull in votes after forgetting the words to her song.

 

And despite claims Janet and Kelly clashed backstage, she did not blame her for her exit. She said: “I felt fine with Kelly’s decision. I knew I was going. I’ve known since Wednesday. I am glad Misha is there. She deserved it more than I did.”

 

 

 

Mirror UK

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X Factor: Robbie Williams shuns singers to talk UFOs with Johnny Robinson

 

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ROBBIE Williams has struck up a bizarre new friendship – with UFO-loving X Factor reject Johnny Robinson.

 

The pop star turned up at the show’s studios on Sunday night with the intention of helping Gary Barlow with his remaining act Marcus Collins.

 

But he ended up spending most of his time discussing extra-terrestrials with camp singer Johnny, 45, backstage.

 

A show source said: “They got talking about aliens and UFOs and it was suddenly like they were old friends.

 

“They had a real connection and both believe in the paranormal so everyone else just left them to it.

 

“They were in their own little world talking about aliens and extraterrestrial things.

 

“Robbie sometimes goes out UFO ‘spotting’ and he even invited Johnny to go with him in the future. It’s an unlikely friendship that could grow.”

 

Robbie, 37, took part in this year’s X Factor as a guest judge alongside Gary when he was in LA to pick his final four male singers for the live finals.

 

But he had not met camp singer Johnny before because he was in the over 25s category.

 

Robbie did find time for a picture with Scouse singer Marcus, a chat with former contestant Jonjo Kerr and a hug with Kelly Rowland on Sunday night.

 

But he quickly became inseparable :rolleyes: from his spacy new mate Johnny, who revealed: “Robbie was a gentleman, really lovely and polite and we had a long chat about UFOs as we are both interested in them.

 

“We’ve both seen UFOs and I have done a lot of research into it so Robbie was interested in talking about it. I think I like him more than Gary Barlow now – we have more in common.”

 

In 2008, Robbie spoke of his love of UFOs and aliens, saying: “Seriously, I want to go out and investigate these things.

 

“I’m stopping being a pop star and being a full-time ufologist.”

 

Williams also claims he has been visited by aliens on at least three occasions, and witnessed a “big strip of black light” while recording in LA.

 

Meanwhile, X Factor flop Janet Devlin has taken a swipe at the show by moaning she would still be in the contest if she “was a pop puppet”.

 

The 17-year-old says the ITV series only cares about bland pop tunes and does not want artists to express their musical ability.

 

She said: “I could have been a puppet and lasted longer. But I wanted to be myself. Singing someone else’s songs every week made me feel like a karaoke artist.

 

“I do wish we were given more of an opportunity to be musicians and express our artistic side.

 

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“But it is hard to get guitars and things synced up to backing tracks.”

 

She added: “I am not X Factor material and the songs I like and the songs I sing are not X Factor material.

 

“X Factor is something that can top the charts with popular music, that is what pop music is. I bring my own music and music that I like.”

 

Viewers saw her mentor Kelly refuse to vote in the sing-off, sealing Janet’s fate. She struggled to pull in votes after forgetting the words to her song.

 

And despite claims Janet and Kelly clashed backstage, she did not blame her for her exit. She said: “I felt fine with Kelly’s decision. I knew I was going. I’ve known since Wednesday. I am glad Misha is there. She deserved it more than I did.”

 

 

 

Mirror UK

http://www.capitalfm.com/artists/olly-murs...ms-inspired-me/

 

Olly Murs: "Robbie Williams Inspired Me To Write"

 

29th November 2011, 13:36

 

The 'Dance With Me Tonight' singer praises the Take That star as he tried to create mature sounding second album.

Olly Murs has revealed that listening to Robbie Williams made him want to start writing his own songs.

 

The 'Heart Skips A Beat' singer credits the Take That star as one of his idols and has said he has always been impressed with Robbie's delivery.

 

"I loved when he did 'No Regrets' and 'She's The One'. Everyone saw a different side to him, not this tough wild child that Robbie was. You can real­ly feel what he was feeling and he inspired me to get into writing," he told the Daily Star.

 

The former X Factor runner up released his second studio album, 'In Case You Didn't Know' yesterday (28th November) and was conscious of expanding his sound.

 

Olly said: "With the second album I was trying to make it more mature, and write more for my kind of age. I’m 27 so I’m not a kid any more. I’ve bought albums in the past where the first album’s been amazing and the second has been a drag."

 

Meanwhile, The Xtra Factor host recently revealed that his music career will always take priority over his TV presenting.

 

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