ROBBIE WILLIAMS IS NOT ABLE TO SATISFY VICTORIA NEWTON

If you'd buggered up the pop music equivalent of the reuniting of the Anglican and Roman churches, and the Pope pointed and said "it was your fault, yours and yours alone", you might feel a little awkward about it. Maybe even slightly shamed.

If you're Victoria Newton, though, you splash it as a 'World Exclusive':

When I met up with Robbie Williams to discuss his new album, he told me he’d refused to go back on stage with his old band — because I’d written that he would.

Now, we think Take That were better off keeping away from their old friend, so in that sense we reckon Newton did everyone a favour. But in Newton's original piece back in April, she even admitted by running the story there was a chance it was never going to happen.

So, she's proud that she ruined something for thousands of people because she doesn't know the meaning of the word discretion. Let's hope she never gets to write about national security, otherwise it'll be "there's a D-notice on this and I'm not supposed to tell you, but you could blow up Sellafield with a fire extinguisher and a bucket..."

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