Robbie Williams appears to have rekindled his age-old rivalry with Oasis’s Noel Gallagher after the band announced two additional reunion gigs, while also publicly criticising Ticketmaster over ongoing booking issues.
Clairsy & Lisa addressed what happened in The Shaw Report this morning:
The feud between Williams, 50, and Noel, 57, dates back to the 2000 BRIT Awards, where Noel referred to him as “that fat dancer from Take That,” which drove a wedge between Robbie and the Gallagher brothers, particularly with Liam, 51, whom he had been friends with since the mid-’90s.
Liam Gallagher and Robbie Williams at the Glastonbury Festival, 1995.
Now, with Oasis gearing up for their highly anticipated UK reunion tour, Robbie has taken another jab.
“These shows are going to be monumental. Oasis reuniting will be a healing moment for the country,” Williams said on an unnamed podcast, continuing to praise Liam’s stage presence.
“Liam could be checking his phone on the toilet and still be more captivating than 99.9% of people at their most enigmatic. All he has to do is stand there and sing—people will feel they’ve gotten their money’s worth.”
He then deadpanned: “Noel will be there too.”
Robbie Williams poses with the British Single of the Year and British Video of the Year awards backstage during The 20th BRIT Awards in 2000.
In 2021, Williams labelled their feud “unbearable” during an interview on the Talent Takes Practice podcast. “Every time I turned on the TV, there were people being hateful towards me. It was grotesque. I had to leave the country,” he recalled, adding he remembers “every syllable” of the insults hurled at him.
The animosity runs deep on both sides.
In 2013, Liam called Williams a “fat f**king idiot”, and Noel has simply continued to dismiss him, sticking to his original Take That insult.
Take That, circa 1992. Left to right: Robbie Williams, Mark Owen, Gary Barlow, Jason Orange and Howard Donald.
The latest flare-up comes in the wake of Oasis criticising Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing system, an issue that has frustrated many fans as they scramble for tickets to the band’s much-anticipated return, something Clairsy & Lisa addressed earlier this week:
