Robbie Williams’ Hit: Chaos After Anna Friel Left

On the latest episode of the Daily Mail's Tales From The Celebrity Trenches podcast, host Jamie East is joined by comedian Alice Brine to dig into the biggest showbusiness stories of the week.

During the podcast, which covers Jamie’s night at Sunday's BAFTAs to speculation over who could be the next host of Come Dancing, the pair share tales of their strangest celebrity encounters.

Jamie, who ran celebrity gossip website Holy Moly from 2002 to 2012, revealed an encounter with , Britain's best-selling solo artist, that became something of a personal claim to fame.

'I was in the room when Robbie Williams recorded Angels,' he recalled.

‘It was 1996, there used to be a studio in Fulham, which isn’t there anymore, called Maison Rouge. My band was recording our first album there at the same time Robbie was recording Life Through A Lens.

'I was in the studio pretty star-struck. Robbie was mega famous at the time. walked in, she was dating him back then. She told him she was going to work and left the room.

'Robbie waits all of five seconds, then goes through the back door and walks in all of his mates carrying loads of beer, alongside a bevvy of beauties.