Fatboy Slim: Ronaldo SNOGGED Him at Paris Wedding

Fatboy Slim revealed he was snogged ‘full on the face’ by Brazilian football legend Ronaldo as he DJ’d at the World Cup winning striker’s wedding.

The musician, 62, whose real name is Norman Cook, was hired to provide the music at the 2005 wedding of the retired Real Madrid and Brazil player in Paris. 

The ceremony was a star-studded affair, as a host of A-list guests attended, including David Beckham, 50, and his wife Victoria Beckham, 51. 

Speaking at the launch of his new book, It Ain’t Over… ‘Til The Fatboy Sings’ earlier this month, Norman recalled being nervous about his set when he arrived at the reception.

Simply because he was unsure if his choice of tracks would make the A-list guests happy, but he needn’t have worried, because as soon as the drinks started to flow, the evening ‘degenerated into every other wedding’.

He recalled: ‘It was in Paris. It was kind of weird. I don’t do many weddings, but when Ronaldo – this is Brazilian fat Ronaldo, when he was playing at Real Madrid – phones you and says, “Will you DJ at my wedding? The Beckhams are going to be there.”

‘At the end of the day, it was like any other wedding. I was thinking, “Oh my god, I’ve probably forgotten music that they want to hear. Everybody looks really old, no one really knows each other.”

‘Roll on two hours later, everybody’s drunk, everybody’s dancing on each other’s shoulders, Ronaldo’s snogging me full on the face, my mate’s trying to get a kiss off his wife, his dad’s got his tie round his head, it degenerated into every other wedding.’

Norman revealed that he can remember the wedding antics, but admitted that he has no recollection of what tunes he span because it was during his ‘drinking days’. 

Although he is certain that a lot of his set would’ve comprised of the Big Beach Boutique II DVD, which was a big hit in Brazil.

The Praise You hitmaker, who celebrated 16 years of sobriety in 2025, candidly said: ‘It was during my drinking days, I can’t actually remember what I played. I just remember the behaviour.

He continued: ‘I think most of the people there, Ronaldo was one of the people who watched the DVD, I knew that his reference point. I probably played half the DVD.

‘I wish I had played Come On Eileen, though.’

Ronaldo, 49, organised a wedding with model Daniella Cicarelli in February 2005 at a castle in France, although it later transpired they did not officially become man and wife because neither had finalised their divorces from their previous partners.

They split three months after the castle ceremony, which they billed as an official wedding, with Daniella later claiming it ended because Ronaldo had been unfaithful to her.

After their relationship finished, he married engineering student Maria Beatriz Antony, however, they split in 2012. 

Ronaldo shares his son Ronald with his first wife, Milene Domingues, and daughters Maria Sofia and Maria Alice with his ex-wife Maria.

He is now married to model Celina Locks, and the pair tied the knot in Ibiza, Spain, in 2023.  

Norman and Ronaldo were friends before his wedding DJ gig and first met when the ex-Barcelona forward went to one of his concerts in Rio de Janeiro.

Discussing how the pair became friends, he previously said: ‘I started hanging out with Ronaldo a few years ago, he started coming to my shows, and then I DJ’d at his wedding. He was backstage at one of my gigs in Rio and he became a fan.’

Cook’s book It Ain’t Over… ‘Til the Fatboy Sings’ celebrates his 40 years in showbiz and is a vivid celebration of indie, house, acid and remix culture.