Robbie Williams officiates wedding at Better Man movie screening: ‘It’s legally binding in my heart’
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Pop star, who is an ordained minister, was filmed casually holding a jumbo slushie as he pronounced the couple man and wife. Robbie Williams took on a surprise role as a wedding officiant at a screening of his new film Better Man in New York. On 12 January, blogger Ezra Cubero shared photos on X/Twitter showing Williams, 50, standing in front of a couple while wearing a leopard print coat.
“At today’s Better Man Q&A in NYC, Robbie Williams was vulnerable, receptive to the audience’s energy, took time to have a heart to heart with his daughter, and then a man in the audience asked him, as an ordained minister, to officiate a marriage with his fiancé. Incredible,” he wrote.
Introducing the couple, who had been together for five years, Williams discovered that the groom, Haldun, shared the same name as his Turkish father-in-law. Footage of the moment shows the “Rock DJ” singer holding a jumbo-sized slushie while declaring: “By the power vested in me by absolutely nobody – it’s not legally binding, but it’s legally binding in your heart and your heart and my heart,” before getting to the “I dos”.
He then pronounced the couple as man and wife to cheers and applause from the audience, and gave them both a hug. The British pop star has been an ordained minister since 2002, when he obtained a licence over the internet to marry two of his best friends: guitarist Billy Morrison and his partner, Jennifer Holliday.
Morrison told Hello! at the time: “The fact that my mate Robbie performed the ceremony means everything to me. He managed to make it extremely powerful. My bride walked down the aisle to the tune of Aerosmith’s ‘Sweet Emotion’. Robbie ended the service with the traditional, ‘You may now kiss the bride.’”.
