GREATEST SHOWMEN
Robbie’s dream duets with Hugh and er, Borat
ROBBIE Williams wants to be joined on his forthcoming album by – The Greatest Showman.
X Factor judge Robbie, 44, hopes to duet with big stars on a third swing disc.
Topping his list of hopefuls is Hugh Jackman, who played circus impresario PT Barnum in the hugely successful 2017 musical The Greatest Showman.
The ex-take That singer would also like to work with Catherine Zeta-jones, Reece Witherspoon, Sacha Baron Cohen and Zooey Deschanel on the project.
Crooners
A big-band album in the style of 2001’s Swing When You’re Winning and 2013’s Swing Both Ways would tie in with Robbie’s first-ever Las Vegas residency, which has already sold out.
A source said: “Robbie “has the wheels in mo motions to plot out another swin swing album.
“The tie in wi with Las Vegas is obvious, especi especially given his favourite croon crooners such as Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin enjoyed mammoth success there.
“If he gets this right right, it really cou could be the beg beginning of hi him cracking th the US market after so long. The idea of Hugh and Robbie on stage together would be dynamite.
“A duet with Sacha on a funny number would be amazing and a tune with a Vegas great like Tony Bennett could be enormous.
“It is exciting t i mes as he formulates ideas and track listings for the album.”
Swing When You’re Winning attracted Hollywood names such as Nicole Kidman, Jon Lovitz, Jane Horrocks and a posthumous duet with a recording of Sinatra.
And Swing Both Ways, featuring Michael Bublé, Kelly Clarkson and Rufus Wainwright, was a whopping hit for Robbie, selling 1.6 million copies and topping the charts in the UK, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
In 2014, Robbie said of his Swing Both Ways project: “There were a few people I wanted that were busy working on films that I might get next time. But at the top of my list were the people on the record, and I was lucky to get them all.”
Robbie’s love of big band and swing came from his dad d Pete.
The star’s agent t declined to comment on plans for the third hird big-band album.