Keith Richards and Justin Bieber recently spent an evening drinking and chatting at a beach bar in the Turks and Caicos, at the end of which they swapped numbers. But not before the legendary guitarist had set the record straight for the Beebs by calling him “a wannabe.”
According to Us Weekly, the night got off to an inauspicious start because Bieber didn’t recognise Richards. “There was an old guy throwing back drinks who said, ‘Who the f–k are you?’ … Bieber responded ‘I don’t know, who the f–k are you?'” Apparently, Richards then said “you’re a man. I respect that,” before walking away. It was only after someone else then approached Bieber and said “Keith Richards wants to have a drink with you” that Bieber realized who he’d been talking to. “Oh, s–t! That was Keith Richards?” He then joined Richards at his table. “Justin tried to bro down with him,” a witness tells Us Weekly. But Richards, unimpressed by the CK underwear model and sometime singer, is reported to have told the youngster “Let’s get one thing straight. You’re a wannabe.”