to rubbish rumours

[Missrapunzel]

Hi everyone,

The Oasis band had a fight backstage before a concert in Paris last weekend, the concert and the rest of the European tour suddenly got cancelled and the spokesman announced that "the group no longer exists".
In a article I was reading about it, I came accross this sentence: "On Monday, Liam used his Twitter feed to rubbish rumours that the band were spitting up."

I understand that to rubbish rumours means "envoyer valser les rumeurs" or "démentir les rumeurs" but it sounds like a wrong interpretation to me as the band is splitting up. Or does this sentence mean that they have reconciled over the weekend?

Thanks a lot!

 

[quinoa]

I suppose that at that moment he didn't want to believe that the rumours were reality.

 

[Novanas]

It simply means that Liam is saying that it is not true that the band is splitting up. Liam could be wrong. (Perhaps he is wrong. I don't know anything about this band.) He's just saying that the rumours are false. Whether he's right about that is another question.

 

[Missrapunzel]

Thanks a lot quinoa and seneca, now I understand!