12/06/2005
Not Robbie:
"Mr Williams is not, and has never been homosexual"
Robbie Williams has won libel damages in a court case against a writer who said the singer was gay. The writer's book inspired a front page story in The People titled "Robbie's secret gay lover," ITN reports:
"The story suggested that Williams was about to deceive the public by pretending that his only sexual relations had been with women when in reality he was a homosexual who had engaged in casual and sordid homosexual encounters with strangers. It claimed he had enticed a stranger into a toilet at a club in Manchester where the two men performed a sex act on each other and where Williams requested that stranger to engage in a further sex act. It was also alleged that a year later Williams had tried to persuade the same man and then that man's friend to engage in similar conduct at another Manchester club and that, when rebuffed, he had gone on to engage in a sexual encounter with another stranger in the streets behind the club."
Seems like an odd lawsuit for someone who seems to enjoy being considered somewhat 'pan-sexual' but I suppose in this case it's all about controlling that image.
Williams Wins 'Gay' Libel Damages [bbc]
Posted 9:44 AM EST by Andy Towle in Music | Permalink
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I am almost but not quite over Robbie Williams.
Posted by: Donald | Dec 6, 2005 10:01:26 AM
Funny, that was the exact same argument George Michael, Elton John and Liberace used many years ago, too.
Whatever. I just wish people would get over it.
Rad
Posted by: Rad | Dec 6, 2005 10:32:18 AM
I'd sue, too, if someone printed a story that said I was fucking strangers in a public loo. Unless it was true.
Posted by: jon | Dec 6, 2005 10:45:22 AM
Robbie who?
Posted by: Michael W. | Dec 6, 2005 10:52:20 AM
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Posted by: Tread | Dec 6, 2005 11:25:17 AM
In 1956, the London "Daily Mirror" viciously but deliciously described Liberace as "...the summit of sex - the pinnacle of masculine, feminine, and neuter. Everything that he, she and it can ever want... a deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love....This appalling man—and I use the word appalling in no other than its true sense of terrifying—has hit this country in a way that is as violent as Churchill receiving the cheers on V-E Day. He reeks with emetic language that can only make grown men long for a quiet corner, an aspidistra, a handkerchief, and the old heave-ho. Without doubt, he is the biggest sentimental vomit of all time. Slobbering over his mother, winking at his brother, and counting the cash at every second, this superb piece of calculating candy-floss has an answer for every situation. Nobody since Aimee Semple MacPherson has purveyed a bigger, richer and more varied slag-heap of lilac-covered hokum. ...There must be something wrong with us that our teenagers longing for sex and our middle-aged matrons fed up with sex alike should fall for such a sugary mountain of jingling claptrap wrapped up in such a preposterous clown." (Gee, I wonder what they've written about Boy George or Carson.) Even though it did not explicity say he was gay, Liberace sued for the implication and WON! In high denial until his last breath (he'd said his extreme weight loss was due to a "watermelon diet"), the paper allegedly considered asking for their money back after it was confirmed he died of AIDS and his boi toi chauffeur sued his estate.
Posted by: Leland | Dec 6, 2005 12:43:05 PM
Robbie Williams is liked bad teeth and baked beans on toast: I don't get it.
Posted by: Kenneth | Dec 6, 2005 1:28:53 PM
Didn't Tom Cruise go through this, too?
Oh, right. I forgot.
He isn't gay, either.
Posted by: neff | Dec 6, 2005 4:51:53 PM
Quick - someone tell the Pope that we've got another candidate for priesthood!
Posted by: resurrect | Dec 6, 2005 9:27:55 PM
A candidate?
Really?
Well... he DID kiss me once when he met me at the Vatican, when he kissed the ring i was wearing... however the ring was on my cock at the time!
Posted by: HisHolynessDPope | Dec 7, 2005 3:00:07 AM
>>it's all about controlling that image.
If you follow the Clinton school of sex, getting a blowjob isn't even sex. So I guess you don't have to be gay to give, or to receive one.
Still, like that guy on the Supreme Court said, "I know it when I see it."
Robbie's as queer as pink teeth.
Posted by: Jay Croce | Dec 8, 2005 3:13:32 AM
Maybe Robbie is doing the old "you're only gay if he's fucking you, but not the other way around" manuever. Either way, yawn.
Posted by: chriso | Dec 9, 2005 3:36:55 AM
Robbie fallen from grace..
So it's fine for Mr. Williams to have been on record for saying he's gay and lives with his songwriter (also male), but if anyone else mentions he's gay he sues? Although he didn't quite come off in America, he's evidently picked up the litigation disease there on tour. Perhaps it's time for him to cross the pond permanently and join a letigious society, rather than encourage that ugliness here.
Posted by: Nibbles | Apr 2, 2006 8:52:10 PM