Robbie Williams real-life angels -

 

We reveal the stories behind his female video co-stars By Sharon Van Geuns & Deborah Sherwood 13/09/2009

 

As he stars in video with his real-life girl, we tracks down the other women who have starred with the singer

 

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In every Robbie Williams video, there's always a gorgeous leading lady with him. And the promo for his comeback single Bodies is no exception - but for one major difference.

 

This time the on-screen beauty he cuddles up to is his real-life girlfriend, actress Ayda Field.

 

The singer, 35, has put his wild days behind him and is now happiest spending time with his American girl, 30. But if She's The One, just what happened to the girls who appeared in the videos for his other hits? SHARON VAN GEUNS and DEBORAH SHERWOOD find out...

 

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL

 

July 2003 No 3 in charts

 

THE POLICE OFFICER

 

Rebecca Durrant was a 20-year-old music student when she was plucked from obscurity to star in the video for Something Beautiful in 2003.

 

Chosen from thousands of fans from across Europe, she spent a week filming at a secret location in London.

 

"I was nervous at the audition but I really wanted to prove I could do it - I'd been a huge Robbie fan from the start," said Rebecca, of Harlow, Essex.

 

"I once bid £2,000 for a pair of his trousers in a charity auction but lost out to a higher bidder. To meet him was fantastic. When he walked towards me I saw it all in slow motion."

 

But the experience actually put her off showbusiness - and she can now be found walking the beat as a police community support officer.

 

"After I filmed the video I realised I didn't want to face the pressure, the secrecy, the non-stop filming and constant hair and make-up touchups," Rebecca added. "I love being a police officer - every day is different. The closest I get to singing now is karaoke in my local pub."

 

ROCK DJ

 

August 2000 No 1 in charts

 

THE LINGERIE MODEL

English model Lauren Gold played the DJ in the hit No 1 Rock DJ video.

 

There was speculation of romance - but all she would say was that Robbie had a great body. "In the video I wasn't supposed to look at him, but I had a little peek.

 

I couldn't help it, he had a thong on!"

 

Lauren, 28, has been linked to celebs including footballer Freddie Ljungberg and Westlife singer Mark Feehily.

 

ETERNITY

 

July 2001 No 1 in charts

 

THE CALENDAR GIRL

 

Lisa Seiffert was an up-and-coming model when she starred in the Eternity video.

 

Robbie was rumoured to be smitten. But Aussie Lisa, then 19, said: "I haven't time for a boyfriend." She has since done top magazine covers notorious shoot for the Pirelli Calendar in 2003 when she simulated girl-ongirl action with her co-star, a certain Sienna Miller. Lisa now lives in New York.

 

FEEL

 

December 2002 No 2 in charts

 

The 80s SEX SYMBOL

 

Robbie asked Hollywood beauty Daryl Hannah to be in his video for Feel. Daryl said: "He was so nice and sweet and funny, I said 'yeah'."

 

Now 48, she's turned vegan and campaigns on green issues. She's had a string of A-list boyfriends, including actor Val Kilmer, but has never found Mr Right.

 

SOMETHIN' STUPID

 

December 2001 No 1 in charts

 

THE MOVIE SUPERSTAR

 

Nicole Kidman duetted with Robbie on the Frank Sinatra cover Somethin' Stupid, which made the 2001 Christmas No 1.

 

In the video, she strips to her underwear as Robbie caresses her. It's thought Robbie's track How Peculiar is about his fruitless attempts to bed Nicole, 42.

 

SHE'S THE ONE

 

November 1999 No 1 in charts

 

THE BANK MANAGER

 

Holly Fisher, an Olympic squad skater, played Robbie's ice-skating partner in the video for She's The One in 1999.

 

She auditioned with about 100 other girls for the role and was amazed to be selected.

 

She said: "I was paid about £1,500 but it was a lot of work and I spent two weeks rehearsing.

 

"I came away really respecting him. He sang a few songs live and was great, really nice, not up himself at all."

 

Holly, from Bracknell, Berks, also revealed how Robbie tried to chat her up during the three-day shoot.

 

"He was a lot of fun and said I was pretty but he was very wrapped up in himself and seemed used to girls falling over him.

 

"But I didn't fancy him so he quickly lost interest.

 

Holly, 27, did get to keep the outfit and some photos of the shoot. She gave up skating and now works as a business manager for Barclays bank and has three-month-old daughter Mia with husband Jason, 35.

 

SEXED UP

 

November 2003 No 10 in charts

 

THE ACTRESS

 

Jaime King played the object of Robbie's affection in the 2003 video Sexed Up.

 

"Robbie was a huge star at the time so the video definitely boosted my career," she said. In one of the scenes Jaime, 30, is surrounded by dozens of rabbits on a bed. She remembers the laughter as the director tried to get them all in shot. She went on to star in the blockbuster Sin City with Bruce Willis.

 

COME UNDONE

 

March 2003 No 4 in charts

 

THE REALITY TV STAR

 

Tiffany Lynn Rowe, 30, appeared in a raunchy video with Robbie for his Come Undone hit.

 

The US model and actress went on to take part in an MTV reality TV series with her partner, US pop singer Ashley Parker Angel. Even the birth of their son, Lyric Lennon, was filmed.

 

She made her film debut this year in thriller Waking Madison.

 

BODIES

 

Due for release in October 2009

 

THE GIRLFRIEND

 

In Bodies, Robbie and Ayda play a couple in love, snuggled up by a campfire.

 

In real life Rob is so happy with the American actress he wants three children with her - in one go. He said: "I'd like to do that fertilising thing that you do, so we can knock three out straightaway." Robbie and Ayda moved into an £7million country house in Wiltshire earlier this year.

 

 

 

Source...THE MIRROR UK

Robbie Williams opens his heart on latest romance

 

 

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By The 3AM Gals

 

 

Posted by: 3am13/09/09

 

 

.Pop superstar Robbie Williams has told how he and his American girlfriend have returned to the UK so their kids don’t grow up with an American accent. Robbie, 35, is dating American actress Ayda Field, 30, and the pair play a couple of lovers in the video for his new single, Bodies. They met in Los Angeles but now live in a £7million mansion in Wiltshire, England. He said: “I went to LA to find her and take her home. Eventually I got very nostalgic about England. “I was actually thinking about kids and what kind of accent they’re going to have. “Then we came home and the weather thing started to happen and we were like, ‘Umm’. “But it’s good to be back.” Interviewed by Rove McManus for Australian TV, Robbie also referred to Ayda’s mum, Gwen, as his mother-in-law even though he and Ayda aren’t married. But he might some explaining to do – after saying she was like Mork’s sister from the 1980s TV show Mork and Mindy which starred Robin Williams playing an alien. Talking about Ayda’s mother, he said: “She has a very interesting mum, Gwen. “It’s like she’s Mork’s sister. She’s amazing. She lives in her own beautiful world, my mother in law. “She’s a documentary all herself. Her own reality TV show. :rofl: :rofl:

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Dont think it's been mentioned yet but in an interview in todays Sunday World newspaper here in Ireland, Rob has said that he will definatly do the free Dublin gig he promised,, but we will have to wait a while as he wont be touring this album. I won't type it up, but he just talks about how dreadful he feels that he has not done it yet and how he was mortified by his performance in Croker. He says the Irish audience are the best in the world and how they gave more than he did that night. He also says he is upset to leard Joe Dolan died two years ago. Apperently he and Rob's dad used to be drinking buddies.

 

I may scan it tomorrow :smoke:

that's really good to hear about the Dublin gig

 

I hope everyone that went that night held on to their tickets :unsure:

Dont think it's been mentioned yet but in an interview in todays Sunday World newspaper here in Ireland, Rob has said that he will definatly do the free Dublin gig he promised,, but we will have to wait a while as he wont be touring this album. I won't type it up, but he just talks about how dreadful he feels that he has not done it yet and how he was mortified by his performance in Croker. He says the Irish audience are the best in the world and how they gave more than he did that night. He also says he is upset to leard Joe Dolan died two years ago. Apperently he and Rob's dad used to be drinking buddies.

 

I may scan it tomorrow :smoke:

 

 

Nice pic from Croker in the article Scotty ....I think most folk here had forgotten about the free gig tbh....

 

I still have my tickets buy hey I was never gonna hold him to his promise in the first place....

 

;)

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Robbie Williams and his management are extolling the virtues of independence by launching a company to handle his music publishing rights themselves.

 

Through the newly-launched Farrell Music the singer will have his global songwriting royalties paid directly from the collection societies, rather than from a publishing company. This will happen via an arrangement with independent publisher Notting Hill, which will broker relationships with the societies, while providing administration services on a fee basis.

 

IE Music co-founder Tim Clark, who manages Williams along with his business partner David Enthoven, says that when the artist’s last publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing expired, another traditional publishing deal was initially explored until the independent route was suggested.

 

“We were looking at all sorts of ways of doing it, as you would expect,” he says. “We explored traditional routes and we had some very good offers in from all the major publishers. As we decided we were moving closer and closer to an admin deal rather than a straightforward publishing deal, we started to explore this and it was actually Notting Hill Music that suggested this was one way to go. So that led us on to explore this and we feel very comfortable and pretty excited about it.”

 

Williams himself is very pleased about the launch of Farrell, wryly noting, “I’ve always wanted my own publishing company… though it could make me broke beyond my wildest dreams.”

 

Clark readily acknowledges this is not the first time an act has structured their publishing in this way, but, given the singer’s profile, the decision to go down this route arguably means IE and Williams are setting the agenda again with artist business deals, just as they did with their groundbreaking agreement in 2002 with EMI Records. That deal covered Williams’ interests beyond recorded music, an early example of what has since been dubbed the “360 model”.

 

“It’s not something we’ve tried before and I think the way in which we put the relationship together with the societies through Notting Hill is fairly groundbreaking,” says Clark. “It also means Robbie will be able to act as a publisher. It’s not as if he’s going to suddenly turn us into a huge publishing company but I’m quite sure if he’s co-writing with somebody who doesn’t have a publishing contract he might well offer deals to those co-writers.”

 

Clark says the only downside of going this way rather than opting for a more traditional route will be more work for him and Enthoven. “We’re paid to do our very best for Robbie Williams and that’s what we try to do and I think with this deal he’s got more money than he would have done from any conventional publishing offer, more freedom to operate, more control of his own copyrights,” he says. “It’s his own company and there’s little or no risk attached.”

 

On whether other artists will now look to follow this example, Clark suggests, “They’d be mad not to, but you have to be at a certain level in order to make this a success.”

 

Farrell will initially handle all of Williams’ new and future material, including his copyrights on his forthcoming album Reality Killed The Video Star (left), which will be released through Virgin Records on November 9.

 

However, it will also handle his back catalogue once it reverts to him. His contributions to his earlier repertoire such as Angels and Let Me Entertain You currently reside at EMI Music Publishing, while Universal looks after the later material through a deal previously struck with BMG Music Publishing, a company Universal acquired in 2006.

 

For Notting Hill, its involvement in the new publishing arrangement is another coup for the independent publisher, whose signings this year include a new deal with triple-chart-topping Dizzee Rascal.

 

Notting Hill Music chairman Andy McQueen says his company is honoured to be helping Williams with the launch of his new publishing company.

 

“This new agreement utilises our experience and expertise in the music publishing field while giving Robbie complete ownership and control of his songs,” he adds. “We are looking forward to working with Robbie and his management team and feel sure that this new venture will be a big success.”

 

Source: MW

Thanks Mikey...interesting development...

ROBBIE WILLIAMS LAUNCHES PUBLISHING COMPANY

 

U.K. pop artist Robbie Williams has launched a music publishing company, Farrell Music, as the new home for all of his music publishing rights.

 

Williams' new and future material will now go through Farrell Music, including songs from his forthcoming album' "Reality Killed the Video Star," (Virgin/EMI) which is released on Nov. 9.

 

The singer has partnered with independent music publisher Notting Hill Music, which has put in place a structure whereby Williams will be paid directly from collection societies on a global basis. Notting Hill Music will broker the relationships with collection societies and will provide administration services in return for a fee from Farrell Music.

 

"Robbie Williams has been and remains one of the defining U.K. artists of our generation and we are honored to be helping him with the launch of his new music publishing company," said Andy McQueen, chairman of Notting Hill Music, in a statement. "This new agreement utilizes our experience and expertise in the music publishing field while giving Robbie complete ownership and control of his songs. We are looking forward to working with Robbie and his management team and feel sure that this new venture will be a big success."

 

As Williams' existing copyrights revert to him, they will also go through Farrell Music. Universal Music Publishing Group currently represents Williams' copyrights up to 2007, following its acquisition of BMG Music Publishing three years ago.

 

"I've always wanted my own publishing company... though it could make me broke beyond my wildest dreams," Williams said in a statement - a quip that refers to his "rich beyond my wildest dreams" remark after re-signing to EMI in October 2002.

 

"This is yet another ground-breaking deal by Robbie Williams and it's what makes working with him so exciting," added the singer's managers David Enthoven and Tim Clark of London-based IE Music.

 

 

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Here is the Sunday World article scanned :smoke:

 

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Thanks Scotty ;)

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Robbie wants to be on I’m A Celebrity

 

By SIMON ROTHSTEIN

 

Published: 14 Sep 2009

 

REALITY TV addict Robbie Williams has revealed he wants to appear on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

 

The singer, 35, is desperate to join the jungle camp and take on stomach-churning bushtucker trials.

 

He would join a line-up rumoured to include Oliver! star Mark Lester - said to be the dad of Michael Jackson's daughter Paris - footballer Jason Cundy and wife Lizzie, actor Brian Blessed and snooker legend Jimmy White.

 

Robbie, who wrote his own Big Brother blog and begged bosses not to scrap the show, said: "I really like I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! It'd be fun to go on."

 

The Angels star, who also told of his love for a documentary about US suburban housewives, added: "I like to see how these shows are constructed, filmed and edited."

 

He is so fascinated with fly-on-the-wall programmes, he even wants to make one himself - about girlfriend Ayda Field's mum Gwen.

 

 

 

UFO enthusiast Robbie bizarrely said Gwen could have been a sister of alien Mork from 1970s sitcom Mork & Mindy.

 

He said: "She's like Mork's sister. A really amazing lady. She lives in this beautiful, constructed world of her own. She's a documentary all by herself or better still a reality show that I want to make happen."

 

Robbie revealed he and US actress Ayda, 30, returned to Britain so any kids they had would not have an American accent.

 

The pair met in Los Angeles, but now share his £7million mansion in Wiltshire. He said: "I went to LA to find her. Eventually I got very nostalgic about England.

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Comeback singer Robbie Williams he is planning to become a dad in the "near future"

 

* Posted by: 3am

* 15/09/09

* 03:57 pm

 

Comeback singer Robbie Williams he is planning to become a dad in the "near future". The 35-year-old recently made his pop comeback after moving back to the UK from the US and his new single Bodies is out next month. He has been dating American actress Ayda Field, 30, for the past three years. Asked about when he might have children, he said to Britain's Star magazine: "In the near future. It's been a slowly, slowly, catchy monkey process. "I was against it. I wasn't even going to be in a relationship as far as I could see, then someone special came along and changed that. She is amazing."

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Robbie Williams to Move to Australia

 

Sep 16 2009. Posted by Adam

 

 

The British singer is keen to buy a farm in the outback after girlfriend Ayda Field had a premonition about living Down Under. :rolleyes:

 

“Ayda told me she had kind of a psychic feeling she’d end up in Austraia,” Robbie, who has only just moved back to the UK after living in Los Angeles for over seven years, Australian radio station 2DayFM. “I’m thinking of coming down there. I have been looking for places out in the outback, maybe a farm.”

 

Robbie, 35, also revealed he is ready to settle down with actress Ayda and start a family. “That’s definitely on the agenda. Little monkeys running around,” he said.

 

“It’s about time. I’ve had a good innings. Life feels an awful lot different.”

 

Robbie recently revealed his plans to become a reality TV star if his new album flops.

 

“I love reality TV, it’s the only thing I watch,” Robbie told UK radio station Capital FM. “If this CD fails and Take That doesn’t do well, Strictly Come Dancing then straight to panto.”

 

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Phew, Robbie Williams is still an idiot. Now the world can carry on turning.

 

* Posted by: 3am

* 16/09/09

* 02:02 pm

 

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We've been getting a bit worried about Robbie Williams. His new material is pretty good, and in interviews he's been coming across as a balanced, reasonable man, who seems unusually at ease with himself and is blissfully happy in his relationship. All of which is, frankly, effing boring. :P

 

Because of this, we felt a confusing cocktail of emotions when we saw this picture of him leaving a Paris hotel earlier today wearing Peter Stringfellow's discarded dressing gown and clutching a lightsaber. First, there was rage, rage that someone who often whines about media attention would pull a stunt like this. And then, we felt mild amusement - because this picture is, in a maddening Lady Gaga sort of way, a little bit funny. And then, finally, there was relief, because we're glad that Robbie Williams is still as much of an insufferable attention-seeking plonker as he always was.

 

All of the above, by the way, doesn't mean we fancy him any less - we're shallow, so we could tolerate the desperate "look at me!" wackiness in exchange for a bit of action betwixt those manly arms of his (although we'd like him to put the lightsaber down first - looks painful).

 

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:lol:

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Let me entertain ’roos, says outback Robbie Williams

By Alistair Foster, London Lite Last updated at 12:33pm on 17.09.09

 

Robbie Williams must have thought he was landing in Graceland when he touched down in Los Angeles wearing blue suede shoes.

 

Robbie, 35, also sporting coloured Ray-Bans, was travelling with girlfriend Ayda Field after promoting his new album in Paris.

 

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In the frame: Robbie Williams and Ayda Field arriving in LA yesterday

 

He may have jetted back to his LA pad, but the singer could be off to Australia if his latest comments are anything to go by.

 

He told an Aussie radio station: “I'm thinking of coming down there. I've been looking for places in the outback.”

 

He sure gets around :blink:

His shirt is way too tight. And Ayda does NOT look happy. :unsure:

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Robbie: My last BIG vice

 

 

19/09/2009

HE managed to quit booze, drugs and raunchy sex sessions, but today ROBBIE WILLIAMS finally discusses his biggest vice . . . FOOD.

 

As he launches his comeback single, appropriately called Bodies, Robbie tells how he ballooned after his shock decision to RETIRE.

 

Speaking eXSclusively for the first time about his battle with the bulge after he quit Britain, the Robster says: "I had burnt out. I was completely burnt out.

 

"That was it. I decided, I'm retiring. I didn't say it but I thought it. I thought, 'I'm going to go off and do something else'.

 

"I thought it would present itself to me. It would be a proper job. It would be humanitarian."

 

Sadly Robbie's "humanitarian" didn't involve anything as noble as feeding solving Third World debt or feeding the starving Africa.

 

In fact the Robster seemed to go out of his way to deprive the starving millions of any spare food that might have gone their way.

 

He admits: "I just sat on my a*** and ATE. I was waiting on the sofa for something to happen and I wasn't very pro-active about searching for this other job."

 

Eventually, shocked by his rapidly expanding waistline, he decided something had to change.

 

"Nothing came along and then the album presented itself," Robbie recalls. "I'd got enough sleep and I was ready to come back and go, 'Hey what do you think of this?' "

 

Now it's a case of Sing When You're Slimming, although that doesn't mean food isn't still his greatest tempation (I know how he feels). Rob says he'd even choose FOOD over SEX. "If the world was going to end in three months I would gorge myself," he laughs.

 

"So many times women get the man of their dreams, they get the ring on and eats lots of food and get massive. And I'm reversing the roles. That's what I'm going to do when this album's over."

 

Rob says that after a string of disastrous relationships, he's finally found happiness with girlfriend Ayda Field. "It was time she entered my life," he says.

 

And he vows he'd never again put his career above his relationship with his 30-year-old missus.

 

He says: "Career or love? Fortunately it's not a choice I have to make but, yeah, if I had to I'd go be in a tent with Ayda somewhere in the jungle."

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/0...15875-21688815/

 

Robbie Williams set to reunite with Take That - for one night only By 3am 20/09/2009

 

HE snubbed their reunion :rolleyes: and got left out in the cold – but now Robbie Williams and Take That plan to relight their fire, on stage.

 

We can reveal that Gary Barlow has asked Robbie to perform his new single, Bodies, at next month’s Children In Need charity extravaganza at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

 

And with Jason, Mark and Howard also lurking in the wings that night, surely they will all join for one little song?

 

Robbie and Gary have been working together for months trying to concoct something special.

 

And they figured that a Children In Need fundraiser was a fantastic reason to finally reunite. Robbie tells us: “Yes something is definitely going to happen. Me and Gary have been hanging out a lot lately, talking things over.

 

“It’s been absolutely amazing. I’ve always wanted to be in a band ever since we split.”

 

 

 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/artic...istmas-No1.html

 

Robbie Williams and Susan Boyle go head to head in race for Christmas No1

By Sara Nelson

 

 

 

Seasoned chart topper Robbie Williams is facing an unlikely competitor for the Christmas No1 album slot – Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle.

 

Both singers are trying to crack America for the envied top spot – and unlike Boyle, it won’t be a first attempt for Williams.

 

The former Take Thatter has never been able to match his European success in the U.S. and is relying heavily on his new album, due in early November, to secure this for him and revive his fortunes.

 

Williams’s EMI release of Reality Killed the Radio Star will go head to head with Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream offering from Sony, which is being released two weeks later.

 

But pundits are already foretelling doom for Williams, with one industry veteran telling The Observer: ‘I am amazed they have elected to go up against this.’

 

Music commentator Paul Gambaccini said: ‘No contest, it is Susan Boyle.

 

‘That is not an insult to Robbie Williams, it’s just that, bizarre as it sounds, Boyle is the new artist and story of the year around the world. The interest factor alone will bring her many, many sales.’

 

Ladbrokes bookmakers have given odds of 2-5 on Boyle’s album making the Christmas No 1 in Britain – compared to Williams’s at 20-1.

Mr Gambaccini added: 'Susan Boyle has combined YouTube hits of 120 million, and even if only one in 10 people buys her album, we are talking ridiculous numbers.

 

'No one can stem that tide. She has the whole international Simon Cowell Machine behind her.'

Williams has not performed in Britain for three years and is currently in LA publicising the release of his next single.

 

His Rudebox album in 2006 did not sell well and he admitted hitting a 'turning point' in his career.

Boyle is also in America, promoting her version of The Rolling Stones' Wild Horses.