Robbie Williams Asks for 350,000 Dollars to Sing a Wedding
Melbourne: Robbie Williams has reportedly demanded 350,000 dollars to sing one song at business tycoon Geoffrey Edelsten’s wedding.
However, it has emerged that the medical entrepreneur has decided to let go the idea of inviting the ‘Bodies’ hitmaker, citing that the rate was too high. Williams was set to perform alongside celebrity MCs Fran Drescher and Jason Alexander.
He was expected to belt out the track Let Me Entertain You during the bridal waltz, reports the Courier Mail. The marriage between Edelsten and Brynne Gordon will take place at Crown on November 29.
Robbie Williams joined Take That on stage for a charity concert in London - but stopped short of performing with his former band.
Take That opened the Children In Need concert, organised by Gary Barlow, at London’s Royal Albert Hall yesterday with their number one hit Greatest Day.
Barlow then told the 4,500-strong crowd: “What a perfect night for us to introduce an old friend.”
Williams, who left the band in 1995, appeared on stage alongside his old bandmates, but only briefly.
He and Barlow have hinted at a reunion of Take That’s original line-up, but the band left the stage before Williams performed his solo singles Bodies and You Know Me alone.
The concert, which has raised more than £500,000 in ticket sales for Children In Need, will be broadcast on BBC1 on 19 November.
Speaking after his performance, Williams hinted there might be a genuine reunion at another performance.
He said: “Something’s planned, and you don’t want to shoot your bolt, do you? We’ll save that for something special - whatever that is.”
The singer, whose latest album, Reality Killed The Video Star, was released this week, added: “I started tearing up just before I came on, and the lads were singing, and knowing it was just about to happen, and knowing what the reactions were going to be like … Then all my team were like: ‘please don’t cry’.