Robbie Williams has requested Pop Idol winner Michelle McManus to carry out a duet with him throughout one of many stops of his forthcoming tour.
The ‘Rock DJ’ hitmaker is about to embark on an enormous tour throughout the UK, Eire and Europe beginning this summer time with the primary date of the run happening in Edinburgh on Might 31.
Whereas showing as a visitor on McManus’ Afternoons present on BBC Radio Scotland, Williams stunned the Scottish Pop Idol winner by inviting her to carry out with him in the course of the first cease of his string of dwell dates.
“Would you want to come back and sing with me in Edinburgh?,” Williams requested, to which McManus replied: “What, sorry? What was that?”. The ‘Angels’ singer then repeated the query, with McManus responding: “Is that this a joke? For goodness sake, sure!” Williams then replied to the previous singing present winner (she gained Pop Idol again in 2003) “Let’s do it. We’ll type out what music later.”
McManus appeared on BBC Radio Scotland’s Drivetime programme and opened up about Williams’ invitation, telling the hosts that she was sure the singer was going to ask her for meals suggestions in Edinburgh.
“At no level ever in my wildest goals did I feel he was about to ask me what he did,” she stated. “I cried lots after it occurred. It’s the enormity of being onstage in Murrayfield in entrance of about 70,000 folks with Robbie Williams.
“However it’s additionally the magnitude of the kindness. Robbie has been so extremely form to me on so many alternative events although he’s such a megastar.”
She additionally revealed that she acquired to know Williams again within the early 00s after profitable Pop Idol as they have been each coping with hate from the press. She stated that he had reached out to her, providing recommendation on how one can deal with all of the negativity.
“I cried lots with him on the time and it by no means left me as a result of he gave me some nice recommendation and it actually helped me get via that preliminary interval,” she stated.
McManus was additionally requested what she wish to sing with him and she or he responded with, “That man might hand me the cellphone e-book and I’d sing it for him, I don’t care as a result of it’s Robbie Williams. Clearly I need to Lulu it proper up – however I don’t suppose he’ll do Relight My Fireplace as a result of why would he? With the again catalogue that man’s acquired, I’m not going to ask him to whip out a Take That quantity. I’ll give it my finest shot. He is aware of I’m a giant belter.”
She added that it was significant to sing in entrance of a Scottish crowd with somebody who has been “actually vital to me all through all of my profession”.
In different information, Man Pearce not too long ago mentioned his latest encounter with Williams on the AACTA Awards, sharing that that they had a “good previous snort” collectively.
Williams beforehand secured his fifteenth Quantity One album with the Higher Man soundtrack, which has tied him with The Beatles.
Williams presently holds the file because the solo artist with probably the most UK Quantity One albums. Now, together with his fifteenth Quantity One file, he’s in the identical vary as The Beatles’ file.
In a three-star assessment of Williams’ biopic – which was directed by Michael Gracey (The Best Showman) and sees the singer depicted as a CGI monkey and tells his life story – NME shared: “That is ‘Rudebox’ on movie: a few of it good, a few of it very unhealthy, all of it a little bit of a large number. Nonetheless, the monkey musical is a giant swing that no-one else would have taken. You may’t fault the chutzpah or the ambition. If it makes again its reported finances, we’ll eat $110m price of bananas.”
