Noel Gallagher sympathises with Prince William over younger brother ‘shooting his mouth off’
Noel Gallagher has said he sympathises with Prince William over Prince Harry’s criticism of the Royal Family – as he knows what it’s like having a younger brother “shooting his mouth off”, according to a new interview.
The Oasis and High Flying Birds star called Harry a “f****** woke snowflake” and said he comes across as a “f****** a******” following the duke’s recent high-profile interviews telling all about life as a royal with wife Meghan.
Gallagher, 54, is of course no stranger to family fall-outs, having been at loggerheads with younger brother Liam ever since he left Oasis and the band split acrimoniously in 2009.
Harry and William pictured with Meghan and Kate at Westminster Abbey in 2019
The younger Gallagher is known for his public criticism of Noel.
In a new and typically sweary interview with The Sun ahead of a documentary about his career airing on Sky Arts, Noel Gallagher reportedly said: “Prince William. I feel that f****** lad’s pain. He’s got a f****** younger brother shooting his f****** mouth off with s*** that is just so unnecessary. I’d like to think I was always the William.”
Noel is currently promoting a new High Flying Birds best-of album, Back The Way We Came: Vol 1, and told the newspaper he had been asked about the royals a lot in interviews.
“It’s funny though, doing promo for this, it’s funny how they obsess about it around the world,” he said.
“I did a week here of Australian promo down the phone and Zoom and all that and they were like, ‘So Noel Gallagher, f****** 10 years of High Flying Birds! It’s been amazing! And f****** Oasis!
“But what we really want to know is, how much of a c*** is Prince Harry?’ And I’m just like, ‘I don’t know mate. I don’t know them’.
“But Prince Harry is coming across like a typical f****** woke snowflake, f****** a*******. Just don’t be f****** dissing your family because there’s no need for it.”
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Gallagher also spoke about the music industry and his time with Oasis and High Flying Birds, saying he is in “a really privileged position where I’ve been able to have two careers”.
Speaking about his persona on stage, he also compared his own more reserved commentary with today’s “preachy” bands.
“Modern rock bands about today would be a sermon about how ‘we’re not worthy to be here and you’re our fans, you’re amazing, and without you…’ F*** off.
“Chris Martin is very guilty of it. Almost everybody who came after us is guilty of it. We were kind of like, we don’t have to remind people why they’re here. They’re f****** here to see us.”
Gallagher says the world is obsessed with the royals. Pic: AP
Gallagher said his songs “have to be twice as good as anybody else’s because I’m not a great salesman”.
Speaking about supporting U2, he said: “I can’t do that thing where Bono can effortlessly talk to 80,000 people like he’s having a conversation with his mate.
“I can’t do that. It’s a f****** gift. I was on tour with him for a couple of years and it’s a f****** gift and that’s why they are who they are. I’m not interested if anyone’s having a good time, d’you know what I mean?
“I’m not interested. It’s up to you to have a good time. What I’m doing here, I’m doing to the best of my ability.”
Donald Trump has said he is considering “taking away” the US citizenship of actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, despite a Supreme Court ruling that expressly prohibits a government from doing so.
In a post on Truth Social on Saturday, the US president said: “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship.”
He also labelled O’Donnell, who has moved to Ireland, as a “threat to humanity” and said she should “remain in the wonderful country of Ireland, if they want her”.
O’Donnell responded on Instagram by posting a photograph of Mr Trump with Jeffrey Epstein.
“You are everything that is wrong with America and I’m everything you hate about what’s still right with it,” she wrote in the caption.
“I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”
Rosie O’Donnell moved to Ireland after Donald Trump secured a second term. Pic: AP
O’Donnell moved to Ireland with her 12-year-old son in January after Mr Trump had secured a second term.
She has said she’s in the process of obtaining Irish citizenship based on family lineage and that she would only return to the US “when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America”.
O’Donnell and the US president have criticised each other publicly for years, in an often-bitter back-and-forth that predates Mr Trump’s move into politics.
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This is just the latest threat by the president to revoke the citizenship of someone he has disagreed with, most recently his former ally Elon Musk.
But the two situations are different as while Musk was born in South Africa, O’Donnell was born in the US and has a constitutional right to American citizenship.
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Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said the Supreme Court ruled in a 1967 case that the fourteenth amendment of the constitution prevents the government from taking away citizenship.
“The president has no authority to take away the citizenship of a native-born US citizen,” he added.
“In short, we are nation founded on the principle that the people choose the government; the government cannot choose the people.”
The Salt Path author Raynor Winn’s fourth book has been delayed by her publisher.
It comes amid claims that the author lied about her story in her hit first book. Winn previously described the claims as “highly misleading” and called suggestions that her husband had Moth made up his illness “utterly vile”.
In a statement, Penguin Michael Joseph, said it had delayed the publication of Winn’s latest book On Winter Hill – which had been set for release 23 October.
The publisher said the decision had been made in light of “recent events, in particular intrusive conjecture around Moth’s health”, which it said had caused “considerable distress” to the author and her family.
“It is our priority to support the author at this time,” the publisher said.
“With this in mind, Penguin Michael Joseph, together with the author, has made the decision to delay the publication of On Winter Hill from this October.”
A new release date will be announced in due course, the publisher added.
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Winn’s first book, released in 2018, detailed the journey she and husband took along the South West Coast Path – familiarly known as The Salt Path – after they lost their family farm and Moth received a terminal health diagnosis of Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD).
But a report in The Observer disputed key aspects of the 2018 “true” story – which was recently turned into a film starring Jason Isaacs and Gillian Anderson.
Raynor and husband Moth (centre) with actors Jason Isaacs (L) and Gillian Anderson (R). Pic: Steve Tanner/Black Bear
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As part of the article, published last weekend, The Observer claimed to have spoken to experts who were “sceptical” about elements of Moth’s terminal diagnosis, such as a “lack of acute symptoms and his apparent ability to reverse them”.
In the ensuing controversy, PSPA, a charity that supports people with CBD, cut ties with the couple.
The Observer article also claimed the portrayal of a failed investment in a friend’s business wasn’t true, but said the couple – whose names are Sally and Tim Walker – lost their home after Raynor Winn embezzled money from her employer and had to borrow to pay it back and avoid police action.
Anderson played Winn in a movie about the couple’s journey. Pic: Steve Tanner/Black Bear
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It also said that, rather than being homeless, the couple had owned a house in France since 2007.
Winn’s statement said the dispute with her employer wasn’t the reason the couple lost their home – but admitted she may have made “mistakes” while in the job.
“For me it was a pressured time,” she wrote. “It was also a time when mistakes were being made in the business. Any mistakes I made during the years in that office, I deeply regret, and I am truly sorry.”
She admitted being questioned by police but said she wasn’t charged.
The author also said accusations that Moth lied about having CBD/CBS were false and had “emotionally devastated” him.
“I have charted Moth’s condition with such a level of honesty, that this is the most unbearable of the allegations,” Winn wrote on her website.
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