I am a soccer star - as well - 13/06/01
Robbie Williams is to turn a dream into a reality by playing professional football. Although the singer will not be turning out for his favourite team, Port Vale, he will get the chance to play alongside Alan Shearer and Kieron Dyer when he dons Newcastle United’s famous black and white strip for a benefit match against Spanish team Athletic Bilbao. The game, which is a testimonial for veteran player Rob Lee, will take place on 10 August. ’Robbie has been asked and he is thinking about it,’ says a friend. Robbie met the Newcastle team last October when he watched them play against Everton from the directors’ box and sent the team tickets for his gig in Liverpool the same night. I wonder if he is as good at scoring on the pitch as he is off it.

J-Lo keen on Robbie - 02/05/01
Jennifer Lopez is said to be so keen to meet Robbie Williams that she has started sending him raunchy photos of herself. The latina diva is making use of all her seductive skills because she wants to lure Robbie into recording a duet with her, according the UK press. Lopez is quoted as saying: ’I’m desperate to work with Robbie. He’s really hot. He’s a very talented singer. Robbie’s a very popular boy, but no doubt he is trying to play it cool.

Robbie’s Temple & fireman’s pole - 18/04/01
Geri is rubbing off on Robbie, the star who turned to Buddhism after leaving the Spice Girls has introduced Robbie to Buddhist meditation, he is said to be taken to it so much that he is planning to build his own mini temple at the back of the Notting Hill home he shares with his flatmate pop star Jonathon Wilkes. Exact details of Robbie’s home extension are unclear, but the source believes that he wants it as much for aesthetic as spiritual reasons. ’He just believes it will be an oasis of calm,’ we are told. ’A place to chill out from the stresses of his day-to-day life.’ This will not be Williams’s first unusual home modification. Last month, it was reported that he was hoping to secure planning permission to fit his ?2 million semi-detached house with a fireman’s pole.

Robbie clear out makes a mint for charity-11/04/01
Robbie williams’ who auctioned many of his possessions for charity yesterday raised more than ?138.000. Robbie raised the money for his Give It Sum charity which will go to help projects in his native Stoke-On-Trent, Great Ormand Street hospital in London as well Unicef.
His kingsize bed which he says has seen plenty of action was the second most expensive lot, it reached ?13.000. The handwritten lyrics to the No 1 song Angels attracted the highest bid for ?27.000. It went to City trader Stephen Gibson who bought the lyrics for his daughter Ellie who was born at the same time as the single was released. Aaah!

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