Robbie Williams blames dancing badly in Take That for destroying his enjoyment of favourite hobby football -after revealing he has arthritis in his back.
The Angels singer spilled he needs painkilling jabs before he can have a kickabout these days.
And the ailment is particularly gutting for the dad-of-four, who usually heads up a team at star-studded charity event Soccer Aid and once had a pitch installed at his former mansion in Beverly Hills.
‘I have a back problem and can’t play soccer any more,’ the Let Me Entertain You star said.
‘I have arthritis but have had injections for it and now I am not in pain. For years, every day, I was in pain.’
The 46-year-old suspects the issue was triggered during his Take That days, when he pulled off stunning dance moves in their music videos.
‘There was four other boys in the band, so I cannot blame it all on dancing. They don’t have bad backs, so it must be something I did,’ he said.
And Robbie reckons he is lucky to still be intact anyway, after a calamitous fall down a hole in the road in his boy band days.
‘I was out jogging, in Stoke-on-Trent, back from my nan’s to our house. It was night time. I was running past a Spar (shop) and there was roadworks going on…maybe somebody had moved the warning signs around it.
‘All of a sudden I found myself underground,’ he told That Gaby Roslin podcast.
‘Somebody passing by just went, “You all right?” I went, “Yeah, how are you?”
‘Then I got out of the ground and carried on running but I found that hilarious. I still find that hilarious.’
Pic cap: Hole lotta trouble: Robbie once fell down trench in road
Going Straight, me? No way! Miller quits Prison Break
Wentworth Miller will break free from playing straight characters — after announcing he has quit his starring role in Prison Break.
The 48-year-old, who came out in 2013, has little sympathy for fans who fell in love with his character Michael Scofield — declaring it’s not his fault if they lust after ‘a fictional straight man’.
Miller, who last starred in the Fox show in 2017, revealed he won’t return for a rumoured sixth series.
‘I’m out. Of PB. Officially. Not bec of static on social media (although that has centered the issue). I just don’t want to play straight characters. Their stories have been told (and told),’ he wrote in an Instagram post.
‘So. No more Michael. If you were a fan… I understand this is disappointing. I’m sorry.’
But he added a caveat to his apology, posting: ‘If you’re hot and bothered bec you fell in love with a fictional straight man played by a real gay one… that’s your work.’
Don’t creek the bed! K-Stew back in closet for romcom
The Schitt’s about to hit the fan as Kristen Stewart lies in the arms of a woman whose folks don’t know she’s gay.
Her lover’s mum bursts in and cuts short the tender embrace, reveals the trailer to Christmas romcom Happiest Season, which also stars Schitt’s Creek actor Dan Levy.
K-Stew’s character Abby plans to propose to girlfriend Harper (Mackenzie Davis) at her future in-laws’ festive gathering. But when she arrives, Harper admits: ‘I didn’t tell my parents I’m gay.’
The ladies have to creep around and convince mum and dad they are just pals.
And 37-year-old Levy — David Rose in Emmy-winning Schitt’s Creek — adds to the hilarity by playing their supportive pal, whose mum has also failed to clock that he is gay.
The film, to be released later this month, provides bisexual Twilight actress Kirsten, 30, with some light relief ahead of her next role — playing Princess Diana in new flick Spencer.
Keys: I grew up with pimps, hookers and drug dealers
Alicia Keys always dresses down after growing up in the ‘porn capital’ of New York.
The Empire State of Mind singer regularly ran into ‘hookers, pimps and drug dealers’ in 42nd Street, and said: ‘A lot of my fashion and beauty sense comes from being exposed to the streets at a young age.’
The 39-year-old told Glamour magazine: ‘Walking by these places and knowing I had to interface with these people, I always had to be conscious about my toughness, my boundaries, my clothes… so I was always very pared down in what I wore.’
Read the full interview in the autumn/winter Glamour UK print issue, out now.
Going down a storm! Little mix make bolt for top spot
Little Mix have given their chart chances extra energy in a bid to overtake Kylie Minogue in this week’s battle for No.1 album. The foursome posed against a storm backdrop to give album, Confetti, a lightning bolt — they currently trail Kylie’s Disco in mid-week sales. Meanwhile, Jade Thirlwall, 27, has bought shares in hometown footy club, South Shields.
■ The Crown star Erin Doherty might have been a footballer if she hadn’t landed the role of Princess Anne in the Netflix show. The 28-year-old said her old team was ‘pretty great’, telling Town & Country: ‘We’d win, like, ten-nil. I bloody loved it.’
■ Christmas is coming early for Billie Eilish fans. She has promised to drop a new single called Therefore I Am. The No Time To Die singer’s producer brother Finneas teased the track by tweeting: ‘You are not ready.’ It will be released tomorrow.
Keith Lemon turned down Strictly Come Dancing after a famous pal told him how hard it was. The Celebrity Juice star, 47, said: ‘I’ve had a lot of friends do it. One, before she went on, said, “Don’t do it! Don’t do it!” She ended up doing really well.’
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