From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <post.nul>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:28:45 -0500
Archived: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:28:45 -0500
Subject: Robbie's UFO Obsession Is A "Wind-Up"c




Source: Q4Music - London, England, UK

http://news.q4music.com/2009/02/robbies_ufo_obsession_is_a_win.html

02/02/2009


Robbie's UFO Obsession Is A "Wind-Up", Claims Barlow

Robbie Williams's supposed obsession with UFOs is simply an
elaborate game to get one over on tabloid newspapers, his former
bandmate Gary Barlow has revealed.

The Take That star told the latest edition of Q magazine how
Robbie's interest in extra-terrestrial life was a stunt to fool
the press. Williams =96 who quit Take That in 1995 =96 presented a
programme about UFOs for BBC Radio 4 with the broadcaster and
journalist Jon Ronson last year, and has since been portrayed as
having a huge interest in alien life.

But Barlow told the latest edition of Q: "All this UFO stuff is
a laugh with the press. He's like that. You are always on the
butt-end of his sense of humour."

It would not be the first time that Robbie has gone to great
lengths to wind up his tormentors. He once faked a series of
photographs cavorting by a poolside with Rod Stewart's ex-wife
Rachel Hunter in order to fool the press. His plan was to make
the shots so racy that anything less in future would be
unusable.

He has also toyed with the paparazzi by repeatedly leaving his
Notting Hill home in the same clothes every day while wearing a
Robbie Williams mask. The aim was to look exactly the same each
day so that photographers would be unable to sell any shots
because they looked identical each day which would eventually
mean they would stop sitting on his doorstep.

However Robbie's collaborator has countered Barlow's version of
events. "Not true," said Ronson, in response to Barlow's
comments (see below).

Barlow went on to say that Williams longed to be "one of us". "I
feel quite sorry for him and my natural instinct is to help him.
But even after ten years, he's one of ur still. He longs to be
one of us still, so I feel really sorry for him."

You can read more in the latest issue of Q:

http://covers.q4music.com/Item.aspx?pageNo=3D6117&year=3D2009