We Regret To Inform You That Robbie Williams Is A Full-Blown Conspiracy Theorist

Robbie Williams has spent the last few decades of his career transitioning himself into a golden oldies crooner.

These days, you’ll find his music on channels like Smooth FM, and he even released a gentle and amusing Christmas album. He wants to be your mum’s favourite musician, Michael Buble with a few rougher edges, or a jocular old uncle who can tell a sly joke and slip you a big chocolate gold coin under the table.

And he was pretty successful at maintaining that front, too, spending his quarantine filming videos of himself doing daggy dad dances. That is, until yesterday, when he blew his cover by giving an interview where he outed himself as a PizzaGate truther.

What Is PizzaGate Again?

The PizzaGate conspiracy theory was born four years ago, over the course of the last American Presidential election. During that election cycle, the emails of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign advisor, John Podesta were hacked and leaked. Having trawled through the emails, a group of alt-right journalists and thinkers claimed that they were filled with coded references to a secret pedophile ring, operating out of a Washington DC pizza parlour.

The theory took off fast. Eventually, things got so out of control that a man travelled to the pizza parlour in question, and fired a gun while attempting to gain access to the building’s “basement”. The parlour doesn’t actually have a basement, but key to the conspiracy theory is that the cabal operates underground — just one of numerous inconsistencies that PizzaGate truthers have spend almost half a decade trying to explain.

How Does Robbie Williams Fit In To This?

Last night Robbie Williams conducted an interview with Anna Brees, a journalist and conspiracy theorist. Over the course of the chat, Williams claimed he had no insight into the truth either way, but repeatedly voiced his support for some of the wilder elements of the PizzaGate theory.

“Now look, there might be a perfectly reasonable explanation for that language,” Williams said, referring to what conspiracy theorists believe are coded phrases used in the Democratic party emails. “The fact that we don’t know means nothing has been debunked.”

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— Chris York (@ChrisDYork) June 24, 2020

“Yes, there was no basement in the particular pizza place,” Williams said later. “That’s not the kind of debunking that I want as a civillian, as a human, going, ‘Hey, this bit, this bit is really weird; what is that bit?’ Nobody’s been asked, nobody’s said, and there’s been no answers.”

Basically, the whole thing shows that Williams has gone full conspiracy theorist. Not gonna lie: that’s a weird career pivot, Robbie.