Susie scaned the telagraph article on TRWS so i'm sure she will put it up here also :)

Oh excellent! :cheer:

 

Susie? Where are you?

Had a quick look on TRWS. That's a book, not an interview! :o It'll take me hours to read that.... :lol:

:lol:

 

Yes i will wait till later ot read it ^_^

I read it. All of it.

What a superb article ( Chris Heath wrote it :cheer: ).

 

I wish all those people who think Robbie is an arrogant, flash, egotistical no-user would read it as well. :rolleyes:

Is the Beckham's World Cup Party not going to be broadcast on the telly now? :unsure:

Don't see it anywhere in my TV mag.

 

Sky News are broadcasting from the front gate ( and the rain is chucking it down :lol: ) but that's about it. No sign of RW yet....

Its being shown next Sunday Jupiter , but there were reports that Robbie refused to let his set be shown :

 

DOCUMENTARY: Full Length and Fabulous: The Beckhams' World Cup Party

Channel: ITV1 Meridian 103

Date: Sunday 28th May 2006

Time: 21:00 to 22:30 (starting in 7 days)

Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes.

David and Victoria Beckham throw the biggest party of the year in the grounds of their luxury mansion in Hertfordshire to raise money for charity. Follow Victoria during the build-up to the big day as she attends dress fittings and plans the party in meticulous detail in the UK and Madrid. The star-studded event is hosted by Chris Evans, Graham Norton runs the charity auction and the menu is created by Gordon Ramsay.

(Stereo, New Series, Widescreen, Subtitles)

 

 

 

 

I know. :( Maybe he'll change his mind if his performance goes well. :dance:

WILLIAMS DEFENDS GELDOF AND BONO

 

ROBBIE WILLIAMS insists rockers-turned-activists SIR BOB GELDOF and BONO should be supported in their actions, even if their reasons are "self-serving".

The English singer is disgusted by critics who mock the megastar Make Poverty History campaigners as they are making a

huge difference, even if it does raise their own profile in the process.

He says, "There's T-shirts saying 'Make Bono History' and 'Make Geldof History' and stuff - I think they are in the worst taste.

"They are of this self-defeating attitude that we have in Britain.

"I wish the country was full of self-serving people doing self-serving things for charity - Geldof and Bono are doing it, whatever their reasons and motivations."

 

Source http://www.pr-inside.com

 

 

I dont reckon RW will be driving through the front gate of the Beckahams mansion, he may be using his chopper ;)

Oooooooohhhhhhh Matron!!!!!!!!! :o :o :o

I am here I will post up the feature as a separate thread, if Scotty hasn't already done it for me

 

The scan is rather large so it could be read easily, so I hope it doesn't knock out the pages too much. :D

Thanks Susie! You are my hero. :wub:

RockDJ is late tonight. <_<

 

Wonder if she's at the Beckham's World Cup Party? :huh:

ROBBIE GETS T-EED OFF WITH LIVE8'S CRITICS

 

SINGER Robbie Williams has blasted T-shirts attacking Sir Bob Geldof and Bono.

 

Robbie, star hit of last summer's Live8, said: "There's T-shirts saying Make Bono History and Make Geldof History and stuff.

 

"I think they are the worst taste.

 

"They are of this self defeating attitude that we have in Britain. I wish the country was full of self serving people doing self serving things for charity.

 

"Geldof and Bono are doing it - whatever their reasons and motivations."

 

Robbie, 32, added: "It's sickening and sad that I even have to question myself before I do anything.

 

"It's not because of what I feelmy own motives are but what I will be judged on."

 

Robbie is an ambassador for Unicef.

 

He is also the mastermind behind Soccer Aid, a star-studded fundraising event in aid of the children's charity.

 

An ITV series this week will climax on Saturday with a match between Robbie's team of English celebrities and ex-professional footballers against a Rest of the World side skippered by Scots chef Gordon Ramsay.

 

 

Rain provides Caffari with fitting finale

By Andrew Baker

(Filed: 22/05/2006)

UK news and edited

 

As Dee Caffari sailed Aviva up the Solent towards her destination port of Southampton, the local fireboat turned out to welcome her home with arcing torrents of water. Caffari had been at sea for 180 days and rain had been lashing the south Coast for six hours, so the gesture was somewhat futile.

 

But Caffari didn't seem to mind, and it would have taken more than a hose to wipe the grin from her face. The 33-year-old from Portsmouth was returning home with a new record, as the first woman to sail single-handed around the world the "wrong" way - that is, westwards, against the prevailing winds and currents.

 

The feat places Caffari in an elite club of solo sailors and the first man to complete such a circumnavigation, Sir Chay Blyth, was waiting on the pontoon at Ocean Village in Southampton to welcome his protegee home.

 

"Dee has inspired the imagination of a worldwide audience," Blyth said. "She has joined only four men who have achieved this feat. Other women may follow, but she will always remain the first."

 

Caffari suffered a number of setbacks on her voyage. There were recurrent autopilot failures, problems with her water-maker and, in the lonely Southern Ocean, frequent storms and lurking icebergs.

 

The yachtswoman seemed to have brought some Southern Ocean weather with her yesterday, when a few hundred bedraggled souls suffered a drenching in order to cheer her into harbour. "It's great to finish in these kind of conditions," Caffari said. "It helps to show people what it has been like for me, and show people what Aviva is like."

 

 

Comparisons will inevitably be drawn with Dame Ellen MacArthur, whose record-breaking circumnavigation last year caught the public imagination to a rather greater extent than Caffari's effort. But the Hampshire sailor's achievement should not be underestimated. Going against the prevailing wind demands constant changes of direction, and the battle against the current means that any slackening of pace may cause the boat to go backwards.

 

 

This is remarkable, given her choice of on-board entertainment. "Robbie Williams was on my iPod throughout," Caffari revealed. "Not just one album, his entire repertoire. I'm going to be great at karaoke now."There should be ample opportunity to practise her singing skills, as Caffari has no plans for an immediate return to the ocean. "I think I'll get used to being on land again first," she said. But her sponsorship deal with Aviva is open-ended, and she is intrigued by the prospect of racing rather than record-setting. "Not solo, I think. But maybe two-handed. That way you get the solitude when you are on watch, but you can go a bit faster."

 

FOOTBALL BOOTS AND A BIG HEART: ROBBIE WITH AFRICA'S AIDS ORPHANS

 

THE four youngsters Robbie met in that dusty South African village are only the tip of the iceberg.

A staggering 15 million children around the world have lost their parents to Aids - just one of the reasons the Daily Mirror has joined with Unicef to raise funds and awareness for the charity's work with children affected by HIV and Aids.

The story of these young people illustrates just how Unicef can help children living on the knife-edge of survival â€" and give them the future they deserve.

Mboniseni, Mlungisi, Balungile and Khetiwe were left destitute when both their parents died. Left to wander the roads around their village looking for meals, they dropped out of school.

Mboniseni, the oldest brother, struggling to control his siblings, would sometimes lash out at them.

Thankfully, in June last year their plight was noticed by Isibindi, a project initiated by Unicef and South Africa's National Association of Child Care Workers.

With their help, a care worker called Zodwa was allocated to the family.

Zodwa now visits their house every day and does all the things a parent would do - helps with their homework, does the cooking, washing, plays games with them and talk to them about their day.

Her visits means that this family can stay together in the place they know as home and grow up with the love and support every child should have.

Her presence has already drastically changed their lives. The children now go to school and have a happy home life. And now Mboniseni is 18, he has applied to become foster parent to his younger brother and sisters.

Robbie was inspired to become a Unicef ambassador by the late singer Ian Dury, who was himself an ambassador for the charity.

Robbie travelled to Sri Lanka with Ian in 1998, where they helped to set up immunisation centres for polio. In 2000 Robbie went to Mozambique to see Unicef Aids projects and reconstruction after the flood. Three years later he went to Russia to visit child-protection programmes.

His work has helped to raise substantial amounts of money for Unicef - and Robbie has personally donated large sums himself.

So it was Robbie, the football nut, who came up with a new idea to raise money for Unicef's five-year campaign to address the way children worldwide are being affected by HIV and Aids.

The singer decided to host a football game - getting his celebrity pals and former professionals like Paul Gascoigne to play a match against each other. Soccer Aid will be screened on ITV1, starting tonight.

Soccer Aid is raising funds for UNICEF and its partners to help provide global health, education and protection work with vulnerable children around the world.

For Robbie, it is a great excuse to combine his love of football with his passion for Unicef, and he hopes to raise £1million through Soccer Aid.

The Daily Mirror has been a key partner in Unicefs campaign, and our readers have been incredibly g enerous.

 

 

ROBBIE WILLIAMS: MY MISSION FOR ORPHANS OF AIDS

 

Source: Daily Record

 

Knowing the parents of these kids were buried in the garden outside was too big for me to deal with

By Robbie Williams

Sitting on the dusty - ground with his head in his hands, Robbie Williams couldn't hide his emotions.

 

In an isolated South African village, the 32-year-old singer was introduced to orphans of AIDS- children left with nothing because of the disease. At their home in Umbumbulu, not far from Durban, Robbie met Mboniseni, 18, Mlungisi, 14, and their two sisters Balungile, nine, and Khethiwe, six.

 

The youngsters lost their father a few years ago and their mother in February last year. They were found by a local charity wandering the streets, desperately foraging for food. It is families like these that inspired Robbie to create this week's Soccer Aid spectacular to raise funds for UNICEF.

 

The children Robbie met have been lucky. They have been helped by a programme to find children and provide them with a care worker to offer practical help and guide them towards a secure future.

 

AS an ambassador for UNICEF, pop superstar Robbie Williams has seen for himself the poverty suffered by kids around the world.

 

And as a football nut he came up with the idea of Soccer Aid - a celebrity match to boost UNICEF's campaign to raise awareness of how HIV and Aids affects children.

 

Here he tells of his visit to a family in South Africa left devastated by the deaths of their parents.

 

"WHEN we drove up the dusty track through all of these mud houses, I was apprehensive about what was going to greet me.

 

My socialising skills aren't the greatest with people who I don't know, especially when English isn't their native tongue, and I knew that there was a lot expected of me. I was scared that I would have no empathy.

 

And then there came massive smiles from the children. I think the thing that always hits me on these journeys - Sri Lanka, Mozambique - is the smiles. And the getting on with it. Because that's what we do - we just get on with it.

 

I went straight into the living room and I sat with the younger brother, and he showed me pictures of his mother and father.

 

Knowing that they'd passed away of AIDS and were actually buried in the garden outside, I couldn't really take it in, to tell you the truth. I couldn't. It was just too big for me to deal with, that one.

 

I liked the kids - I thought they were really sweet. They were instantly loving, too. We quickly became, I suppose, for that day at least, friends. And while I was there, there was this feeling of tranquillity.

 

Outside, there was a big group of kids playing football - I say kids, anywhere from about 13 to 18 or 19 - kicking a ball to each other. They spend all day doing that, on a piece of ground that's about 15ft by 15ft.

 

I joined in and I tried to do the best kick-ups I could do with my bad back. They kick that ball all day, and then the younger ones who haven't graduated to kicking the ball slide down a little slope all day on bits of cardboard.

 

When they're not doing homework, they're kicking a ball or they're sliding down this slope. In a way, it's the same as I do with the internet. Or football, too. The day we thought of Soccer Aid, we realised we could also make a lot of money for a great cause - for UNICEF.

 

The excitement of that, mixed with the excitement of actually taking part in such a match, made it a lovely day, thinking about what could be."

 

The four youngsters Robbie met are only the tip of the iceberg in terms of children affected by AIDS and HIV.

 

A staggering 15million children around the world have lost their parents to the disease. Mboniseni, Mlungisi, Balungile and Khethiwe were left destitute when both their parents died.

 

Wandering the roads around their village looking for food, they dropped out of school. The oldest brother, struggling to control his younger siblings, would sometimes hit them.

 

Thankfully in June last year their plight was noticed by Isibindi, a project initiated by UNICEF and South Africa's National Association of Child Care Workers.

 

With their help, a child-care worker called Zodwa was allocated to them.

 

Zodwa now visits their house every day and does all the things a parent would do - helping with homework, doing the cooking, washing, playing games and talking about their day.

 

The family can now stay together in the place they know as home and grow up with the love and support every child should have.

 

The kids now go to school and have a happy home life. And now Mboniseni is 18, he has applied to become the foster parent of his younger brother and sisters.

 

Robbie was inspired to become a UNICEF ambassador by the late singer Ian Dury, himself an ambassador for the charity.

 

Robbie travelled to Sri Lanka with Ian in 1998, where they helped to set up immunisation centres for polio.

 

In 2000, Robbie then went to Mozambique to see UNICEF AIDS projects and reconstruction after the flood.

 

Three years later, he went to Russia to visit child-protection programmes there.

 

His work has helped to raise substantial amounts of money for UNICEF - and Robbie has personally donated large sums himself.

 

He hopes to raise £1million for Soccer Aid with his idea.

 

A series following the project will be screened on ITV1, starting tonight at 9pm.

 

YOU CAN HELP

 

You can make a donation to UNICEF by visiting the website: www.unicef.org.uk/socceraid or by calling 0845 606 1122

 

 

Robbie actually gets some good press from the Mirror and Daily Record! :o I am shocked.

It'll be back to normal by the weekend.... :rolleyes:

Oh don't say that Jupiter, that means Hyland of the NOTW will get his usual anti Rob digs in again. :puke2:

Edited May 22, 200619 yr by Susie