Robbie Williams 'met Barbra Streisand but did not know who she was'
‘I thought she was a nice old lady!’ Robbie Williams reveals he met Barbra Streisand on holiday but had no idea who she was (while screen icon believed he was a FOOTBALLER!)
Robbie Williams had a chance meeting with music legend Barbra Streisand on holiday – but admitted that neither knew who the other was!
The singers were introduced by mutual friends when holidaying in Tahiti.
But former Take That star Robbie, 48, and Barbra, 80, did not realise that the other was famous.
Awkward! Former Take That star Robbie, 48, and showbiz legend Barbra, 80, did not realise that the other was famous
The Let Me Entertain You star had Barbra down as a ‘nice old lady’ while the Funny Girl actress thought that Robbie was a footballer.
He revealed the awkward encounter on Scott Mills and Chris Stark’s final BBC Radio 5 Saturday morning show yesterday.
Robbie told the pair: ‘And it was like ‘Hi, I’m John’, and ‘Hi, I’m Rob’, and ‘Hi I’m Steve’ – ‘Hi Steve’, ‘Hi, I’m Barbra’ – ‘Hello Barbra, I’m pleased to meet you’.
‘Nice old lady. Then I sat down next to Barbra. And it was Barbra Streisand. And I was like, ‘Oh, ahh’.’
Whoops! The Let Me Entertain You star had Barbra down as a ‘nice old lady’ while the Funny Girl actress thought that Robbie was a footballer while holidaying in Tahiti
After he had realised, he clocked on that Barbra was still none the wiser to who he was.
While the group mingled, Robbie’s participation in yearly charity football game Soccer Aid led Barbra to believe that he was a footballer.
He recounted: ‘People were talking about Soccer Aid, and she just presumed I played football.
‘And then I was like ‘Oh, no, no, no, I’m a singer’.
‘And she was like, ‘That’s nice’.’
Despite being a legend of music in his own right, Robbie’s inability to recognise Barbra is curious.
Own goal! Barbra misheard a conversation about Robbie Williams’s involvement with Soccer Aid and thought he was an athlete
The great is a star of stage and screen as well as a world-class singer including in the classic 1968 musical Funny Girl. She has won five Oscars.
She has won eight Grammy awards in a glittering career, amassing a fortune of a whopping $400million.
While Robbie, who shot to fame in Take That in the nineties before becoming a solo artist, is one of the biggest selling music artists of all time, with hits including Angels and Let me Entertain You.
Robbie is marrried to wife Ayda Field and the couple have four children together; Theodora ‘Teddy’, nine, Charlton ‘Charlie’, seven, Colette ‘Coco’, three, and Beau, two.
Robbie’s schedule looks to be getting a lot busier in the near future as his new album XXV is coming out on September 9, while a biopic about his life is currently being filmed in Australia.
The biopic, titled Better Man, will cover his incredible rise to fame from boy band heart-throb to stadium superstar.
Production has begun on the big budget film – billed as ‘a musical fantasy’ – which is being made in Melbourne by Australian filmmaker Michael Gracey who directed the box-office smash The Greatest Showman.
British actor Jonno Davies, 29, best known for the Amazon Prime series Hunters, will play Robbie as a younger man.
Other members of the cast include Australian actors Kate Mulvany (The Great Gatsby), Damon Herriman (Mr InBetween), and filmmaker-actor Anthony Hayes, whose feature film Gold is currently streaming on Stan.
In 2006 Robbie made it into the Guinness Book of World Records after he sold 1.6million concert tickets in a single day.
Iconic: Robbie rose to fame with Take That and went on to achieve 12 number one singles on the UK Singles Chart along with eight number one albums (pictured in 1994)
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