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He performed at the closing ceremony alongside Nicole Scherzinger and Laura Pausini (Bradley Collyer\/ PA)<\/p>\nRobbie Williams has responded after suffering a \u201cdeeply unprofessional\u201d blunder during the World Cup.<\/p>\n
The 52-year-old British singer performed alongside Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger and Italian singer Laura Pausini during the closing ceremony of the football showpiece on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
However he also drew attention for an appearance on German TV channel Magenta Sport, where he was speaking to pundits when he accidentally spat out a small white object on to his microphone.<\/p>\n
He picked it off and kept it in his hands before going on to rub his head, with the object then sticking to his forehead.<\/p>\n
Williams has shared a video on social media explaining what the object was.<\/p>\n
Filming himself lying in bed, the performer says: \u201cI\u2019d just like to apologise for the object that fell on to the microphone yesterday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was deeply unprofessional, and people worried about me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it\u2019s OK. Because I had several more,\u201d he continues, before sticking his tongue out and revealing two circular mints.<\/p>\n
He performed at the closing ceremony alongside Nicole Scherzinger and Laura Pausini (Bradley Collyer\/ PA)<\/p>\n
Williams breaks out laughing before the video cuts off.<\/p>\n
Captioning the Instagram post, he wrote: \u201cJust woke up and feeling\u2026. Mint x.\u201d<\/p>\n
The singer has previously spoken about his struggles with mental illness, obesity, self-esteem, alcoholism and substance abuse.<\/p>\n
On Sunday night, the first World Cup half-time show was also held.<\/p>\n
The final between Argentina and Spain featured an 11-minute spectacle with stars from around the world including Madonna, Shakira, BTS and Justin Bieber.<\/p>\n
Fifa extended the half-time interval of the match from the customary 15 minutes to more than 27 minutes.<\/p>\n
Former England forward Wayne Rooney, who was at the New York New Jersey Stadium working as a BBC pundit alongside Joe Hart and Micah Richards, did not hold back when asked for his highlights of the show by presenter Gabby Logan<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be honest, mine was when it finished. I like a lot of them artists but I thought it was crap,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just didn\u2019t get me going and I wanted the football to come back on. I like Burna Boy, I like Bieber, I like Shakira, but that was too flat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Richards called Rooney \u201cmiserable\u201d for his assessment, while Logan added: \u201cI\u2019ll tell you what else you get on the BBC: honest reviews.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robbie Williams has responded after suffering a \u201cdeeply unprofessional\u201d blunder during the World Cup. The 52-year-old British singer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-559739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}