Robbie Williams: Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow together again

Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow: the Take That stars reunited Let us reach as one for the MOR dial on the radio: Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow are releasing a song together. After Take That's current revival and Robbie singing with "the boys" (average age: 45, approx) at a charity concert last year, this is rather probably attempting to bed someone after spending so long on the foreplay they have fallen asleep, but no matter.
The song, which will appear on Robbie's upcoming greatest hits album, is called Shame, and is quite possibly about Barlow's current alliance with David Cameron. That's right, another greatest hits album from Robbie, and this time it's a double so there are likely at least four versions of Robbie's duet with Nicole Kidman (LiS is crossing its fingers for a calypso one). It will be called, displaying that characteristic Williams wit, In and Out of Consciousness. Does the self-knowing compensate for the self-obsession? 'Tis the Williams conundrum.
Williams's current quote about the album, however, suggests his self knowledge has been overstated: "The great thing about the album is that it's not only a celebration of my past but also a bridge to the future." Greatest hits album. Future. Don't look those words together often, do you?

Robbie Williams ditched by fiancée Ayda Field... but only for the World Cup

Diehard football fan Robbie Williamshas been dumped by his fiancée Ayda Field – but only temporarily until the World Cup hype calms down.

The brunette beauty is understood to have walked out on the former Take That star just three days after the tournament kicked off because the singer has become obsessed with footie talk.

After Algeria versus Slovenia’s match on Sunday, Ayda decided she couldn’t take any more of her football-mad boyfriend and will stay with her mother until the coverage dies down.

he 31-year-old American actress was irritated by Robbie’s constant talk of the World Cup and said she won’t be back until it’s over.

Despite the ‘Better Man’ singer not even being with Ayda in Los Angeles during the beginning of the World Cup, he still managed to annoy her with his telephone conversations revolving around the game.

A source told The Sun: ‘Ayda said she just has to get some peace…He has invited his gang of football mates over to his house to watch the rest of the matches in his home cinema.

‘Ayda was dreading a house full of blokes chanting Three Lions and blowing vuvuzelas – so she’s legged it.’

Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow to release duet

In their first joint musical effort since 1995, Gary Barlow and Robbie Williams are teaming up to release a single.

The song, Shame, is written by the two singers and will be released in October.

The pair, who shared the stage at a charity concert for Children In Need last November, were spotted together at the weekend's Soccer Aid football match.

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Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow share a matey hug at Soccer Aid

With their arms around each other, it’s impossible to tell Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow have been anything other than best friends.
The former and current Take That singers shared a joke as they walked on to the pitch before the kick off of Unicef’s Soccer Aid charity match.
Although Williams, 36, made sure he upstaged Barlow in the wardrobe department.

With his hair slicked back and his patent shoes shining, Williams looked smart in a dark suit and black tie.
However, Barlow, 39, went for the more casual look. Sporting a beard and jeans, he grinned as he grabbed Robbie for a hug in front of the crowds at Old Trafford, Manchester, yesterday.

The display of affection will no doubt add fuel to the speculation that Take That are due to reunite with Williams.
A-list celebrities and football heroes – including Woody Harrelson and Mike Myers - poured out for the charity football game, which aired on ITV1 yesterday.
It saw England play against The Rest Of The World and aimed to raise more than £2.5million for vulnerable children.

Williams – who has organised Soccer Aid for the past six years – played in the England team alongside Ben Shephard, Bradley Walsh, Jamie Theakston, Ricky Hatton Teddy Sheringham and Jamie Redknapp.
While James Corden was given the role of assistant manager.

On the opposing team, Ryan Giggs and Zinedine Zidane were joined by Jens Lehmann, Gordon Ramsay, Shane Filan, Ronan Keating, and Joe Calzaghe.
They were captained by Michael Sheen – who described the event as the best experience of his life - and managed by Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish, with the help of his old Reds team-mate Ian Rush.

After 90 minutes, the game was a 2 – 2 draw, leading to a tense penalty shoot-out where Harrelson and Myers secured their team’s victory with a goal each.
But let’s hope it’s not a sign of things to come in South Africa – with The Rest Of The World beating England and taking home the trophy.

Robbie Williams takes a hit: Singer set to lose £1m on his £8m impulsive buy

Even by celebrity standards, an £8.1million ‘impulse buy’ is extravagant.

And Robbie Williams may be regretting the rash purchase of his Wiltshire estate... as he stands to lose up to £1million on its sale just a year after he bought it.

The 36-year-old singer, who is estimated to be worth £80million, has decided he ‘can’t afford’ to maintain the 71-acre country retreat, which comes complete with a seven-bedroom 18th century mansion, indoor swimming pool, helicopter hangar, library, two staff flats and a cottage.

Williams has put the sprawling country pile on sale for £7.5million with estate agent Savills, but would be expected to settle for an offer of around £400,000 less – leaving him with a £1million loss 15 months after buying the house.

And it seems the impulse purchase is not the only ill-advised decision the former Take That star has made.

His modifications to the estate, which was once owned by architect Lord Foster, have raised eyebrows among neighbours in Compton Bassett.

He has created a full-size football pitch in the grounds, and a dirt track for quad bike or ‘rage buggy’ racing through the estate’s parkland.

These additions were conspicuously absent from a two-page advertisement for the house that appeared in Country Life last week.

A source revealed: ‘Robbie used the grounds for his own interests, not really considering the impact on the picturesque estate.

‘It is, though, no wonder they haven’t been used in the pictures to sell the house in the magazine.

‘After all, football pitches and dirt tracks don’t really appeal to your average Country Life reader with millions of pounds to lavish on an estate.’

Williams – originally from Stoke-on-Trent – completed on the property in February last year after deciding to return to the UK from California, where he had been living for more than three years.

He admitted it was an impulse buy but was believed to have been enamoured with its location in the heart of crop circle country because he has an interest in the supernatural.

At first he seemed happy, saying: ‘It’s lovely down there and the people have been great with us.’

But one English summer later, he and his fiancée, American actress Ayda Field, 31, decided to sell-up and move to Los Angeles, blaming the weather.

Gemma Rochester, 19, a barmaid at local pub The White Horse, said: ‘It’s a close community and Robbie has never been part of it.’

Another villager added: ‘It’s a lovely house but he just hasn’t settled there.’