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Robbie : 'I Saw Kylie Naked And Laughed'
2:06pm Monday September 20, 2010
Elizabeth Scott
Robbie Williams has revealed how he blew his chances with Kylie Minogue after drunkenly laughing at her naked.
Robbie and Kylie paired up for the hit single Kids in 2000
The pair teamed up for the video of their duet Kids in 2000 during which she stripped for the final scenes. Now Williams has admitted that the shock of seeing the woman he had fancied for years undressing made him burst into laughter. In his new book You Know Me, Williams said he had a crush on Minogue Neighbours. since her days in Australian soap.
But during her presence he became "a bit of a teenage boy". He said: "I couldn't figure out why my banter wouldn't work, why my natural ability to just be myself went awry." Williams began drinking Drambuie liqueur "to get some Dutch courage, but it backfired", he recalled.
The singer had not been told that the scene would feature her taking off a robe to reveal she was wearing nothing but a tiny G-string. "I just burst out laughing. Which I don't think went down well with Kylie," Williams admitted. "I may have offended her too, because she must have felt vulnerable too, being naked on set, and being naked in front of me."
He added: "I think that any chance of anything disappeared when I laughed at her. "Perhaps she likes being naked, but she probably doesn't enjoy being laughed at by some Stokie idiot." Williams says he has been too embarrassed to ever bring the incident up since and hoped that mentioning it in the book would go "some way" to serving as an apology.
The book, which is out now, also contains a series of photos of Robbie using his pet dogs as wigs. The candid pictures see Williams pose with his beloved dogs on top of his head. He explains: "The press continually do the same story, the headline that should be - 'Guy That Used To Be Young Gets Progressively Older', 'Hair Turns A Different Colour' etc.
"So I was just trying out different colours to see what would suit me if I dyed my hair, using the dogs as colour pods. "I think there could be a new website in there somewhere where people send pictures of themselves with their dogs as wigs." The book, published by Ebury Press, is co-written by journalist Chris Heath, who wrote Williams' biography Feel.
