13 February 2024 , 08:00
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He's "lost count" of the number of women he's slept with and there are some very famous notches on his bedpost. Singer Robbie Williams made the most of his Take That fame back in the 1990s, not to mention his subsequent success as a solo star.
Robbie, who turns 50 today, is now a very happily married dad-of-four who has been wed to actress Ayda, 44, for 14 years. He once said: "Ayda says that every time we turn on the TV there’s a woman I’ve slept with and it’s true. Luckily she has a great sense of humour." We take a look back at some of the star's previous romances...
The Spice Girls
Robbie famously bragged he had bedded all but one of the Spice Girls. He enjoyed a fling with Geri Halliwell in the '90s, telling chat show host Graham Norton he had once smuggled Ginger Spice out of his London apartment in a holdall bag to escape the paparazzi. Robbie was also linked to Mel C, who later revealed they had dated but never properly hooked up.
Robbie dated Geri Halliwell in the '90s (Press Association)
The singer has been married to wife Ayda for 14 years (Getty Images)Robbie later said his claim to have bedded four Spice Girls as a joke which "got out of hand" but went onto state Mel B was the only one he hadn't slept with. So who knows the truth...
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An All Saint
Robbie fell for All Saints singer Nicole Appleton after they met on Top Of The Pops in 1997. Their relationship quickly grew serious with Robbie proposing to Nicole after just six months together. The star later fell pregnant unexpectedly.
"He put his hands on my belly and told me: 'This baby is saving my life'," said the Pure Shores singer. Nicole, 59, went onto have an abortion, saying she came under pressure from her record company at the time.
The star was engaged to All Saints singer Nicole Appleton (EMPICS Entertainment)Hollywood A listers
Robbie was rumoured to have enjoyed a secret romance with Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman after the pair duetted on single Somethin' Stupid in 2001. The pair have never revealed if anything happened between them.
In 2006, the singer met actress Lindsay Lohan in rehab and they struck up a friendship. Rumours of romance circulated once more.
Strippers
The Angels singer confessed in his autobiography Feel that he used to prowl strip joints for sex, bedding countless strippers he met on nights out. “The t*tty monster gets on my shoulder," said Robbie, giving a revealing insight into his bad boy past. "I need to take her home and f*** her. Then I do. And then I feel genuinely sorry for her predicament.”
Robbie was linked to actress Nicole Kidman but the pair have never confirmed any romance (Press Association)His drug dealer
Wife Ayda met Robbie when the star was battling drug addiction and she shockingly told how Robbie had slept with his drug dealer just before their first date. "You had just f***ed your dealer, who had just dropped off drugs, before our first date," she said. "Romantic."
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