Robbie Williams reckons there are only two celebrities not affected by fame – Tom Hanks and Noel Gallagher-Mel Evans-Entertainment – Metro

Robbie Williams has some thoughts on the pitfalls of fame, and who came out the other side (Picture: Watto / BACKGRID)

According to Robbie Williams, there are only two celebrities who aren’t affected by fame.

The Rock DJ singer, 48, believes those two famous faces are Tom Hanks and Noel Gallagher, two very different celebrities, but, apparently linked by this one commonality.

Robbie – who has been honest about his battles with addiction and the difficulties of life in the spotlight – this week suggested the Hollywood actor, who is arguably one of the most beloved of the celebrities, and Oasis legend appear to have come through the harsh light of fame relatively unscathed.

Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, he said: ‘I play this game, that who has got through that [fame], come through the other side and gone, “I enjoyed every bit about it, and I’m totally mentally really well and I’m happy to continue. Let’s do more of it.”

‘Do you know, here’s the thing. The first person that jumps to my head is Tom Hanks. But, we don’t know the real Tom Hanks. So we don’t know what went on with his life.

‘The other one who I think… Noel Gallagher seems to have handled extreme fame really, really well. They still achieved what they achieved, and he’s still Noel Gallagher.’

Oasis legend Noel Gallagher has done alright (Picture: Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images)

Beloved actor Tom Hanks is also seemingly unscathed (Picture: by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

The challenges of fame are well known, and the former Take That singer himself hardly minces his thoughts on that subject is keen to make a documentary on how it can be particularly tough for members of boybands and girlbands.

When it comes to Take That, the popular boy band, who split in 1996, opted to get back together for a reunion tour in 2006 following the premiere of a Take That documentary in late 2005.

He explained: ‘If you run through every boyband and girlband that’s ever existed. With Take That, Gary Barlow leaves the band, his career’s supposed to do that and it didn’t.

Robbie sat down with Zane Lowe this week (Picture: PA)

Robbie with Take That bandmates Mark Owen, Howard Donald, Gary Barlow and Jason Orange in 1993 (Picture: Dave Hogan/Getty Images)

‘He suffered with bulimia, didn’t leave his house, went to sleep underneath his piano because he’d forgotten how to write songs. Incredibly depressed.

‘Changed his name on his credit card because he didn’t want people to see Barlow.

‘Howard Donald wanted to commit suicide after he left Take That. Mark Owen’s been to rehab and Jason Orange just can’t do it.’

As well as his former bandmates, Robbie has battled his own issues, and he thinks a lot of that can be blamed on ‘this machine’.

He explained, while speaking to Zane at the ground of football team Port Vale in his home city of Stoke-on-Trent: ‘And then there’s me, the mental health, the rehabs, the addiction, there’s all of that. So that’s what being in a boyband really does.

‘And I’m sure that in five or 10 years’ time if you sit down with One Direction to a man, they’re all going to have their isms that have been caused by this machine.

‘I want to do a documentary about it. Maybe we should do it together. About boybands and girlbands and what really happens. Why fame does that to you.’

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