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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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    Florence Welch: 'Bono taught me how to dance in high heels'

     

     

    Florence And The Machine's Florence Welch has revealed that U2 frontman Bono taught her the art of dancing in high heels.

     

    Florence And The Machine supported U2 on several live dates during their record grossing 360° world tour and Welch told RTE.ie that the frontman also opened up to her about the band's troubled performance at this summer's Glastonbury.

     

    Asked about touring with U2, Welch replied: "Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving."

     

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    U2 Take Top Honors At Billboard Touring Awards

    11/14/2011

     

    (RTTNews) - U2 was among the top winners at Thursday night's Billboard Touring Awards, held in New York City.

     

    The Irish rockers took home the Top Draw and Top Tour awards for most-attended tour and highest-grossing tour, respectively, for their 360 Tour, which spanned two years and included 110 shows in 30 countries and wrapped up in July. Their award was accepted by concert promoter Live Nation's Tres Thomas, who thanked the band, its manager Paul McGuinness, and the rest of the management team for their efforts.

     

    Other big winners for the night included Kenny Chesney (who took home the Top Touring Package Award for his Goin' Coastal Tour with Zac Brown Band, Uncle Kracker, and Billy Currington), Bon Jovi, Taylor Swift and Journey, whose guitarist Neal Schon and bass player Ross Valory accepted the band's Legends of Live Award.

     

    The awards are determined on the basis of global box office numbers reported to Billboard Boxscore from October 1, 2010, through September 30, 2011.

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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.