Is Robbie Williams an ordained minister? Fans get married at a Better Man screening officiated by the singer

On January 12, 2025, Robbie Williams did a Q&A event in New York for his movie Better Man wherein he brought his daughter onstage and also officiated a wedding ceremony when a fan from the audience asked him to. According to multiple sources like Vulture, Robbie Williams is ordained by Universal Ministries.

Several videos of the instance went viral on the internet wherein Williams is seen officiating the fans' wedding and stating while holding his Slurpee:

"By the power vested in me by absolutely nobody – and it's not legally binding, but it's legally binding in your heart and your heart and my heart, do you say I do?"

Additionally, Williams' act of officiating the fan's wedding earned him praise from netizens. A blogger @EzraCubero posted multiple images of the singer officiating the wedding on-stage in a leopard print coat with the tweet stating:

"At today's BETTER MAN Q&A in NYC, Robbie Williams was vulnerable, receptive to the audience's energy, took time to have a heart to heart with his daughter, and then a man in the audience asked him, as an ordained minister, to officiate a marriage with his fiancé. Incredible."

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"I’ve been a cheeky monkey all my life": Robbie Williams comments on CGI chimp portraying him in Better Man

Better Man starring Robbie Williams is directed by Michael Gracey and has been released in theaters. It follows the career and life of Williams wherein he is portrayed as a computer-generated ape man and narrates the movie. While the movie has been getting mixed reviews so far, it was nominated for a Golden Globe for the track Forbidden Road in the "Best Original Song" category.

In an interview with AP News dated January 7, 2025, Williams commented on a monkey portraying him in the movie. The singer said:

"My MO has been cheeky. What’s more cheeky than a cheeky monkey? I’ve been a cheeky monkey all my life. There’s no more cheekier monkey than the coke-snorting, s*x-addict monkey that we find in the movie."

Then, Robbie Williams was asked if it would be easier for audiences to empathize with a monkey than with him. Responding to the question, the singer said that most people care for animals more than they do for humans so "there is a removal." Williams said that the movie is a human story but if someone else was playing him, the audience would think if the actor looked like him or talked like him.

Additionally, the singer was asked to comment on the narrative of people not having sympathy for wealthy pop stars, given he was someone who was expressive with his struggles.

Addressing the same, Robbie Williams said that everyone "loves a story of redemption" wherein he defined his perspective of redemption by stating:

"I was this guy who experienced this thing but I’ve endured and overcome it. You throw in a word like “endure,” and I can already hear British people going “(Expletive) you! What did you endure? Knickers being thrown at you.”

He continued:

"Dude, I was mentally ill. I still am, but I’m in a good place. I couldn’t derive joy from anything because I was mentally ill. I won a sprinting race with two broken legs."

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Robbie Williams is a British singer who gained popularity in the '90s with the boyband Take That. He has been the centre of multiple controversies including the time he said that he slept with four out of five Spice Girls members. However, the singer apologized for his comment clarifying that it wasn't the truth.