Higher Man, the Robbie Williams biopic that stars a CGI chimpanzee because the British pop star, is nearing its Christmas launch date. Williams, the Take That alum and home famous person (who solely actually cracked American consciousness together with his “Millennium” video, an inescapable VH1 presence in its day) is on the market doing press rounds to advertise the film. At the moment, that course of has yielded a hell of a pullquote.
In an interview with the Guardian, Williams was requested about his 2004 libel lawsuit, when he sued a tabloid for publishing an interview together with his “secret homosexual lover” and received each monetary damages and an apology.
“Right here’s the factor: are you straight or are you homosexual?” Williams requested reporter Michael Cragg in response. Upon listening to that Cragg is homosexual, Williams continued: “OK, I’ll ask you this: There’s a entrance cowl of a newspaper that’s learn by thousands and thousands and a girl has mentioned you might have carried out cunnilingus on her by a canal. Do you, as a homosexual individual, sue the newspaper?” Cragg answered that he wouldn’t sue however can be aggravated about being falsely represented. This impressed Williams to say, “I used to be aggravated. I used to be extra unhappy. Not about homosexual accusations as a result of look, I’ve carried out every little thing however suck a cock. Truthfully, you’ve by no means met someone that wishes to be homosexual as a lot as me.”
Williams additionally broke out a soccer analogy: “I’m a Port Vale fan and it’s like someone going, ‘Effectively you’re a Liverpool fan.’ And me saying, ‘No I’m not, I’m a Port Vale fan.’ When someone says you’re a Liverpool fan 100 occasions it’s like, ‘I’m not a fucking Liverpool fan, why do folks suppose I’m a Liverpool fan?!’”
There may be, sadly, no point out of Williams’ not too long ago reignited feud with neighbor Jimmy Web page.
