Posted April 29, 200619 yr There is a programme on UK Channel 5 this Monday called Robbie Williams's Secrets. 9pm-10pm. This is the blurb- ' Friends and colleagues recount their surprising and often humorous experiences of life with the pop star. Contributors include acquaintances from the singer's school days :huh: , former girlfriends :angry: , members of tour parties :mellow: , and journalists :puke2: - plus a few surprise guests :rolleyes: ' Don't know whether to watch this or not. I fear it will be the same old recycled rubbish from people who have hardly met him or who have an axe to grind. Wonder who the 'ex-girlfriends' are :rolleyes: what's her face from Newcastle by chance? :angry: Oh and I bet that ex-manager crops up (again) to insist Robbie is definitely gay..... :rolleyes:
April 29, 200619 yr Author Well Scotty you won't be watching then.... ;) Fear not, I'll sit with my notebook and record everything that is said to post on here later. I have the feeling you won't be missing much... :rolleyes: ' Hi, my name is Jimmy and I was at the same primary school as Robbie. But he was 7 years older than me and we never actually spoke but we was real close like and I knew he would be a great singer. And he snogged a girl called Stacey once.... Oh and he is definitely gay' Bla Bla Bla ;)
April 29, 200619 yr CRITICS CHOICE 29th April Robbie Williams' Secrets. Channel Five, 9pm Be warned. This isn't an exclusive interview with the man himself, nor a collection of startling, hold-the-front-page revelations. Instead, it's one of those programmes for which the makers have sought out a whole array of people who've had some kind of vague contact with Williams over the years and who are therefore considered sufficiently well qualified to provide us with penetrating insight into the man's character. Hence we'll be hearing from girls he used to date, blokes he went to shcool with, a chap who used to manage him, guys he's gone out drinking with, journalists who've written about him, fans who are blatantly besotted by him etc. Entertaining enough in parts, but really just another load of cheap, Robbie-related tittle-tattle.
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April 30, 200619 yr Yet another dish the dirt I suppose. Celebrity does have a down side doesn't it. :puke2: I suspect he is used to it by now, although I am sure he gets more than a bit p***d with it though. :angry:
May 1, 200619 yr Author When I stop laughing I'll post a breif resume of the show. Absolute boll*cks from start to finish. :lol:
May 1, 200619 yr I watched that - cheap, tacky TV journorubbish. The only slightly convincing bit was the Angels songwriting thing.
May 1, 200619 yr Author This was absolutely dire TV. In brief we had- - The ex-'girlfriend' Lisa Brash telling how she and Robbie ate Celebration Chocs, how he couldn't 'go on' all night and how he smoked 80 Silk Cut a day but only smoked half a fag at a time (so really only 40 a day). - Victoria Bitchy Newton from the Sun spouting some venom - A selection of RW tribute acts. Including an Asian guy called Singh and another one who looked nothing like Robbie but insisted women chased him all over town for autographs. - An ex-member of One True Voice drinking Guinness to prove an ex- boy band member couldn't drink as much as Robbie claimed to have. - An ex-manager telling how Robbie wasn't a tough nut and his hard man image was all made up. - A fan he pulled on stage at Come Undone at Knebworth whom he (embarrasingly) didn't recognise 2 days later when she asked for his autograph at a film premiere. Who said she was virgin and Robbie was her first kiss and she loved him :cry: - An ex-school mate who said Robbie was always rubbish at football and never made the first team. Part 2 to follow when I can draw breath. :lol:
May 1, 200619 yr Author Part 2 - How Robbie hates being compared to Norman Wisdom but was offered a film script to play Norman. - A New Zealand tattoo artist who Robbie invited to come on tour with him just in case he wanted a tattoo done. After going half way round the world he had tattooed a tour manager and a guitarist but no Robbie. So he called Robbie a lazy motherfu*cker and was sacked. :lol: - The Irish Guy called Ray Somebody who I've seen a few times before on Robbie Docs. He claimed that he and Robbie wrote Angels together in 1996 when Robbie stayed with him in Dublin during a drink and coke fuelled bender. He played a tape of Angels which he said was recorded by Robbie at his house in Dublin. And it did sound much the same as the version we know. :huh: He then said he was offered £7500 by EMI as a final settlement to give up all his rights to Angels and he took the money. He said he wrote the words to Angels, Guy Chambers then revamped the music and Robbie didn't really have anything to do with the song. <_< And just to show he has no bitterness, he said Robbie made a pass at him one night and he, Ray, had to fight him off..... :wacko: It was a really awful show (but hilariously awful). I couldn't even get that annoyed. -_-
May 1, 200619 yr Yes that Ray charecter is alway in the papers over here going on about Angels. Actually i recall him saying that Guy has nothing to do with the song and that he and Rob wrote it before Guy even knew Rob. :huh: He said that he wrote about 70% of Angels and Rob wrote the rest :rolleyes: But obviously he has changed his mind now :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Edited May 1, 200619 yr by Scotty
May 1, 200619 yr You know Scotty I have two filmed interviews by Hefferman, about the same subject, and they differ, he has changed a few facts. I have no doubt that he did drop in a semi quaver or crochet somewhere in the song and fabricated it with Robbie, and he has been making money off it ever since. All I know if I wrote a song, any song I would never ever allow to sell my soul for money rather than credit, serves him right . :puke2: It was an awful programme to watch, they just ridiculed and belittled Robbie any way they could, and the makers should be ashamed of themselves for involving Norman Wisdom, he looked befuddled and was made to look like a puppet put on show while trying to make Robbie look a fool. :puke2: Junipter you are right about the Sun bitch, I have never called her that in print before, but there is always a first time. I always suspected she doesn't like Robbie and I know he is not an easy character to always deal with, but is it any wonder when you have people like these making money while using his name. :puke2: The programme and Channel 5 are :puke2: :puke2: :puke2: :puke2: Edited May 1, 200619 yr by Susie
May 1, 200619 yr Author It was bad wasn't it Susie? And OK we expect the press to attack Robbie :rolleyes: but I thought tonight they made fools out of other people as well. Those Robbie impersonators for a start. They were obviously brought along thinking they were going to contribute to a serious Robbie documentary but they were made to look absolute idiots. And that poor wee Asian guy. :cry: Oh and poor old Norman. He didn't even know what day it was..... :rolleyes:
May 1, 200619 yr funniest thing for me was the Angels song... The tape that was played was pretty much exactly the same but yet Robbie was saying that he made the song himself in 30 mins!
May 1, 200619 yr I mean don't these people know (the impersonators) what type of show they are taking part in, and did Norman Wisdom really know. When they were playing football, they must have known the were going to send up the man that is their bread and butter for goodness sake. At least Robbie plays football for charity, these jerks just did it for a cheap bit of TV. I am really concerned about it Jupiter and I hope Channel 5 get a few angry Rob fans emailing or phoning as well. How it must annoy him to see edited programmes spliced together like this to discredit him as a person and as a professional and actually make it sound and look like they want it too. I wish the press and the media would just go and find someone else to pick to pieces. Edited May 1, 200619 yr by Susie
