News of December 2003
12/12/03
Thousands of people have been visiting the official German website for Robbie Williams after it promised to show him naked if a million people logged on. The EMI-organised website has already had more than 188,400 hits with new visitors every second. Across Germany radio stations and pop columnists have been urging Robbie fans to join in exposing the star. Every hit exposes more of the singer, who is seen dancing like a stripper in the middle of what looks like a hotel room.
12/12/03
A man is in a critical condition after falling from a railing while dancing at a Robbie Williams concert. The 23-year-old was believed to have been standing on a railing on the tier of seating at Melbourne's Telstra Dome when he slipped. A police spokeswoman said he fell several feet into the crowd below. She said: "He landed on a female fan, who was not physically injured but was treated for shock." The man was treated at the scene by first aid volunteers before being taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital with head injuries. It is not clear if Williams, who is finishing a world tour with a series of concerts in Australia, is aware of the accident.
11/12/03
Robbie Williams has laughed off
speculation that he is gay during a press conference at a Melbourne gentleman's
club.
"I will do anything to prove I am not gay," Williams said as he was surrounded
by scantily clad women at inner-city club the Spearmint Rhino. "He will go to
any lengths to prove he's not gay that Robbie Williams .... in fact he's the
only gay man in history who doesn't fancy men and has never had sex with them."
Williams, who is in Melbourne for a show, was lead onto a stage by four women
dressed in white underpants and singlets emblazoned with the words: "I love
Robbie Williams". It was the same stage where only moments before the same women
had entertained the waiting media with pole dancing to some of Williams'
greatest hits. Williams, 29, told journalists he was ready to settle down. "I am
looking for a missus," Williams said, reports The Age newspaper. "I am 30 in
February and I have done everything professionally that I want to do, I have
partied like not many other people have partied and it's time for me to settle
down and have children."
11/12/03
Robbie Williams says he will go away and reinvent himself after his world tour ends in Australia this week. The singer says his three Australian shows will be the end of an era, reports the Australian Herald Sun. "I see these next three gigs as a full stop to a certain part of my career. Whatever I do next will be different, to say the least. "This is the end of 15 years as a boy band member and as Robbie Williams the singer/songwriter-cum-cabaret artist. "I've got a lot of time to go away and sit down and think about what I do next and what I want next. I'm 30 in February, it's natural you take stock of what you are, who you are, what you want and what you don't want anymore. "It's going to be interesting for me to see if my ego can take a back seat and perhaps do things on a slightly smaller scale." But Williams made it clear he was not about to retire. He split with Guy Chambers, the man who wrote the music for all his hits, around the time he signed an $80 million deal with EMI last year. His new songwriting partner, Stephen Duffy, is best known for the '80s hit Kiss Me, and being an original member of Duran Duran, the band supporting Williams in Australia. But Williams hinted his new music may go in a less commercial direction, and has penned much of it himself. "It's been really cathartic for me. I've actually found out, for the first time, what I sound like and what I want to sound like."
10/12/03
Robbie Williams wants disposable
protective covers on toilet seats he uses on tour.
He's asked for the covers to keep him from picking up germs, and they'll be
changed after each call of,nature in his hotel suites and backstage. The Sun
says Williams, who is currently on tour in Australia, has also asked for bowls
of different chewing gums, including sugar-free ones, in his changing room. The
star also wants a masseuse to be on stand-by to help him "wind down" after his
shows in Sydney and Melbourne. He has asked that no alcohol be made available,
as he is now teetotal. Pay-TV sport and music channels have to be laid on in the
hospitality area, creating a "living room-type atmosphere," reports the
newspaper. The singer will finish his world tour in Sydney before heading to Los
Angeles for Christmas.
