Robbie Williams was close to breaking down on Australian TV show Rove last night as he made known his regrets regarding what he had written about Sir Elton John in his autobiography, Feel. In the book he described Sir Elton as 'weird' and accused him of 'kidnapping' him and forcing him into rehab as a step against his previous drug problems.

The Radio singer did not mean to cause offence to the veteran icon, and has only realised that Elton was upset through subsequent comments in the press.

Robbie told the show's presenter: “I know Elton said I’m not a well budgie and it didn’t make me happy. But I’ve been thinking about it a lot and perhaps it wasn’t cool that I’ve written about it.

“Maybe I should be saying sorry to him. But I think it is a really interesting story and I didn’t mean to cause harm by saying what went on.

“It just shows Elton in a very caring light and he is a very caring man. So if he is upset then ‘hey ho’ but it wasn’t meant to provoke Elton and I want him to know that.???