HE'S BEHIND YOU!

Confirmed bachelor Robbie Williams plans to give up his luxury US lifestyle for a short time and return to the UK this Christmas. It's all to help out his very close friend Jonathan Wilkes (surprise) who is staging 'Hamlet' at the Old Vic and would... sorry, who is staging Cinderella at the Regent Theatre in Stoke and would appreciate any spare dignity Robbie has to offer.

Be still my beating heart, it doesn't end there! TV leviathans Ant and Dec may also help out by appearing in the show.

"Robbie is not busy at the moment, so you never know - he might come along this year," said Jonathan, like a child looking out of the window for Santa on Christmas Eve, "We might get a couple of Geordies along, too."

Jonathan can do no wrong in Robbie's eyes, so the smuggest man in showbiz may be treading the boards in the Potteries dressed as a 'laydee' and simpering in an even more exaggerated manner than usual. It's lovely to see the ex-flatmates are still such good friends. Why, Robbie even has the numbers 10 and 23 tattooed on his wrist, the numbers which correspond in the alphabet to 'J' and 'W'.

Such good friends. Maybe it's not only Cinderella who'll be visiting the ball.