Robbie Williams is one of the biggest superstars on the pop scene right now, even recently breaking David Bowie’s record to become the British solo artist with the most chart topping albums in the UK.

As well as having banging tunes, he’s proven himself to be bursting with personality and armed with great anecdotes, even if they are somewhat controversial or explicit (like the sexual encounter story he told on the Graham Norton show).

In a recent interview with Attitude, a gay magazine in the UK, Robbie talked about how he questioned his sexual orientation in his early 20s, and about the way society mishandled homosexuality then: ‘I was raised in a society where gay was the thing you levelled at somebody you wanted to hurt the most. I took my first ecstasy at a gay club… had the most incredible time.

‘But also because of the homophobia that there is out there, I was sort of left as a 21 year old going: ‘Actually, I don’t hate the gay… so does that mean that I’m gay, too?’ So I was 21 or 22 and I was like: ‘Oh, that must mean that I’m somewhat gay, in some sort of way.’’

He continued: ‘There was a time where if you put ‘Robbie Williams’ into Google, it said ‘gay’. When it stopped being: ‘Robbie Williams gay’, I wondered what had happened.

‘The truth is with me and gay is that I can’t get round the cock thing. You know I have crushes. Big male crushes. A lot. I crush a lot. But I just can’t do the cock. I don’t enjoy looking at mine that much. So I can’t get round that bit.

‘And if I could I would have because I like sex. I would have liked being able to have it on tap.’