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Robbie Williams has spoken of his admiration for 'Live While We're Young' boyband One Direction, claiming the X Factor runners-up could become as big as The Spice Girls.
Robbie Williams has previously compared One Direction to Take That - and said that he sees a lot of himself in member Harry Styles. Now, he has showered the boyband with praise once again.
"They’re quite a power in the way the Spice Girls were," reports The Sun newspaper. "The Spice Girls took over the world and won and I think the One Direction boys have a similar chemistry."
Williams also adds that Harry Styles way with women is so successful, there is no advice he could possibly offer.
"He’s a magnet like I’ve never seen before. I don’t think Harry needs any tips from me," he added. "He’s beguiling, and so are One Direction. I wasn’t him when I was 18. That didn’t happen to me."
Robbie Williams believes One Direction will rival The Spice Girls
Robbie previously said that he felt 'sorry' for Styles, recalling his own time in a boyband as youngster.
"I feel a bit for Harry,” Robbie told The Sun newspaper in 2012. "At his age I was in this lilywhite boyband, Take That. But I was meeting up with mates, jumping out of the tour bus and into a Transit van at motorway service stations all around the country.
"It’s not a secret any more but I would get off my face and have complete anonymity. No one had a camera phone so I could go and enjoy myself properly. Harry is finding out it’s not so easy for him."
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