Robbie Williams hasn't owned a phone since 2006. The pop star, who shunned mobile phones before the iPhone era, joins Elton John and Werner Herzog in his abstinence.
Despite being one of the UK’s most successful pop stars, with millions of social media followers to keep updated, Robbie Williams has revealed he hasn’t owned a phone since 2006. Speaking on football talk show Back of the Net, Williams said: “I haven’t owned a phone since 2006. I’m always on my computer, I’ve always got Wi-Fi … I got rid of [my phone] because I just don’t like them.” Regarding social media apps, he added: “I don’t have my password to anything otherwise my career would be over … I tell several people what to put on there and then that gets vetted, and then it doesn’t go on.” It means that Williams has never owned a smartphone, as the industry-changing iPhone launched in 2007. Williams isn’t the only celebrity to shun the mobile phone. In 2016, Elton John said he didn’t own one, and last year complained about their widespread use, saying that before cameras were installed in phones, “you can afford to be out of your mind and behave extraordinarily badly in public and no one would be able to take a photograph – which I did many times! Unfortunately that’s all changed with the advent of technology. Going out now is an effort."
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