http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...mon-Cowell.html

 

IMPENDING fatherhood is having a strange effect on Robbie Williams - it's turning him into Simon Cowell.

 

The singer recently complained he's piled on the pounds during his wife Ayda's pregnancy.

 

And settling down seems to have had an adverse impact on his fashion sense as well.

 

Twice in the past week the former heartthrob, 38, has been photographed wearing outfits that look like they were lifted straight from Cowell's closet.

 

The singer is due to become a first-time dad any day - and he recently revealed the effect it's had on his waistline.

 

He said: "I got fat. Isn't that incredible. She has to eat for two, but I've gained her weight. It must be the empathy.

 

"I read about it, and, it says that sometimes husbands suffer the same effects during the pregnancy as their wife."

He even suffered morning sickness and mood swings.

 

Robbie added: "If she was sick, I was. If she had bad mood, me too. This happened during the first three months."

 

The Take That man was at Radio 1 today to promote his brand new solo single, Candy, which was co-written with bandmate Gary Barlow.

 

But he's not hanging around in the UK - Robbie and Ayda are heading back to their home in Los Angeles as soon as she gives birth.

 

Robbie's dad Pete Conway recently revealed the couple are determined to bring up their baby in the States.

 

He said: "I’d like to babysit but it’s very difficult when you live in Stoke and they live in LA. But if babysitting is required I’ll be out there as much as possible.”

 

 

 

 

Pictures in link....

He's the one: Robbie's Irish grandad inspired fashion line

 

 

SUPERSTAR singer Robbie Williams has revealed the inspiration for his suave style was his Irish grandfather.

 

Security is expected to be tight at Brown Thomas and BT2 this Friday when the 38-year-old launches his new clothes range 'Farrell' in Ireland.

 

Williams will be in Dublin to play a charity concert at the O2 in aid of Unicef and Childline this weekend.

 

But he also told how the range of classic menswear is named after his maternal grandfather Jack Farrell.

 

Born in Kilkenny, he was a huge influence on the young Williams growing up in Stoke-On-Trent.

 

"My grandfather, Jack Farrell -- Jack the Giant Killer -- was a huge man, built like an Irish navvy," said Williams, who also has his grandfather's name tattooed across his wrists.

 

"He was an honest man, he taught me to box."

 

A spokeswoman for Brown Thomas warned that the public would not be admitted.

 

Later, the Take That singer will fulfil his promise to play another gig in Dublin, after technical difficulties marred his concert at Croke Park in 2006.

 

 

 

Irish Independent

 

Megastar Robbie Williams rolls in to Leeds for intimate gig

 

 

 

MEGASTAR Robbie Williams rolled into Leeds last night for an intimate gig at the O2 Academy.

 

Around 500,000 fans applied for tickets for his UK tour of four small venues – but only a lucky 2,500 got their hands on them for the Leeds gig.

 

The heart-throb singer, who has had hits with Millennium, Angels and Let Me Entertain You, told yesterday (Sept 11) how he had had a ‘falling out’ with his heavily-pregnant wife over the mini concert tour.

 

Ayda, who is expecting the couple’s first child in the next few weeks, has told Williams to cancel his live gigs if she goes into labour.

 

However, he said he did not want to let down his fans, adding: “I’ve had a bit of a falling out with the wife. I’ve got gigs this week. The baby could come at any minute. The wife has said ‘If I go into labour and you’ve got a gig, say, in Leeds or Dublin, you’ve got to cancel it and come home’. “Do you think my audience will go ‘Oh, it’s ok, his wife’s pregnant – that’s fine’. They won’t will they? The show must go on, surely?”

 

See Thursday’s Scene supplement for a full review and pictures

 

 

Yorkshire Evening Post

 

 

 

Robbie Williams has chopper on standy-by in case wife goes into labour

 

 

 

DAD-TO-BE Robbie Williams is taking no chances about missing the birth of his child.

 

A day after joking that it was too expensive to have a helicopter on standby while he’s doing gigs promoting his new single, he used a chopper to get to his concert in Leeds last night.

 

The singer, whose wife Ayda Field is due to give birth in London any day now, tweeted a picture of his flashy transport, adding: “Leeds here I come.”

 

Robbie is due to touch down in Glasgow today. He’ll be launching his clothing range Farrell at House of Fraser, before doing a gig at the city’s Barrowland.

 

Robbie yesterday admitted that he was desperate for his new single Candy to be a chart success.

 

He said: “I’m in the business of hits now.

 

“Before, I meandered with no direction, trying to be experimental and interesting and I didn’t manage that bit.

 

“Now, I want hits and euphoria in stadiums and I want people to sing the words back to me.

 

“I think this might be the single to do it.”

 

Robbie wrote Candy with Take That bandmate Gary Barlow in the attic of his house in LA.

 

He said: “We spent days and nights up there giggling about all things in general and this was one of the first songs we wrote together.

 

“As soon as it came, I was so pleased because it sounded more like a first single than anything that I’ve had in a long time.”

 

Robbie said he can’t wait to be a dad but admitted that being a devoted family man was hard work for a popstar who has women flinging themselves at him.

 

He said: “I’ve been a monk for six years and I intend to carry on being monk-like – but it’s not easy.

 

“I think every night that I remain faithful to Ayda she should give me stuff – even if it’s just a bag of Minstrels.”

 

In an interview with Magic FM yesterday, Robbie also talked about the excess weight he’s put on recently – claiming it was because he stopped smoking and started pushing weights.

 

He said: “The wife got pregnant, I gave up smoking and I put on a stone-and-a-half and decided to cultivate the wrestler look – and now I’m pushing weights and really enjoy doing it.

 

“I’ve turned the mountain of fat into muscle mixed with fat.”

 

 

The Scottish Daily Record

:o He has stopped smoking?

:o He has stopped smoking?

 

 

Easy Peasy !! I managed it <_<

I've never smoked. Never even tried a ciggie. :teresa:

I've never smoked. Never even tried a ciggie. :teresa:

 

 

 

The whole world is full of Saints <_<

I was far too preoccupied with my vodka :P

Why objectifying women in public is never funny – Robbie Williams says a woman’s breasts are his favourite thing about Ireland

 

 

 

Robbie Williams was in Dublin on Friday to launch Farrell, his menswear range that will be retailing in upmarket clothes store, BT2 – and, you know, to play a sold-out charity concert in the city’s O2 Arena. While in town, he entertained a panel of visitors in BT2‘s older sister store, Brown Thomas, and chatted with Georgie Gavin, a radio journalist with city radio station, Spin 1038.

 

When Gavin asked Williams what his favourite thing about Ireland was, Williams, ever the comic and all-round cheeky chappie, replied: “Your breasts! Honestly, I can’t stop staring at them.” The Spin 1038 team saw the “funny” side and rushed to Twitter to tell the world of Robbie’s hilarious quip; the breasts in question were photographed by the surrounding photographers, while the journalist in question thought it was “too funny”. But . . . was it really?

 

In one fell swoop, Williams had reduced Gavin – an intelligent young woman and successful journalist – to, for want of a better term, the sum of her tits. It didn’t matter what she had to say, just as it didn’t matter what questions she was asking him. To him, and to everyone in the room, she became little more than a piece of meat (the role women have played, lest we forget, for centuries on end).

 

Sadly, this is not the first time Ireland has dealt with a tits on the radio type of situation, nor is it the first time it has failed to see the seriousness of the offence caused by this kind of mindless, misogynistic objectification of women. In fact, several other radio stations replayed the clip throughout the day, with many DJs commenting on Williams’ “cheek” in a jovial, envious spirit.

 

Every time a woman – or a man, for that matter – objects to the routine objectification of women by men in positions of authority or celebrity, they are accused of being humourless, in need of a bit of relaxation (and then some) and lacking in some sort of obscure funny bone that allows us to see the hilarity inherent in blatant sexism.

 

But how would they feel if that were their sister, their daughter, their friend – a young woman trying her hardest to be successful in a patriarchal society, in spite of the fact that the very foundations of that society are geared towards her failure – being humiliated and told, basically, “you’re nothing but a pair of tits” in front of a waiting room of fellow journalists? Amused? Doubtful.

 

Georgie Gavin might think this is “too funny”, as may her colleagues in Spin 1038 – but they are all failing to see the damage caused to society as a whole by the consistent humiliation and objectification of women. And until they see that, well, perhaps we’re fighting a losing battle

 

 

Irish Times.com

Robbie has been giving an interview to the Sun.

 

Here is Day 1.

 

Link and photos

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...parenthood.html

 

 

Losing their baby has been very, very sad for Gary Barlow and Dawn

Impending father Robbie Williams on the joy and heartache of parenthood after death of Gary's stillborn daughter

 

By GORDON SMART, Showbiz Editor

Last Updated: 14th September 2012

 

ROBBIE WILLIAMS used to get swamped with offers from female fans desperate to have his babies.

 

But now he is a 38-year-old married man with a daughter on the way a strange new phenomenon has emerged.

 

In Glasgow on Wednesday afternoon women were coming up to him and handing their babies over as if he were a politician posing for pictures with constituents during an election campaign.

 

Robbie was patting pregnant bumps, looking at pictures of toddlers on camera phones and, by the end of the day, had been presented with almost all of the contents of Mothercare.

 

 

He isn’t shy when it comes to talking about his baby joy with stunning wife Ayda, 33 — but all that excitement has recently been put into perspective.

 

When his close pal Gary Barlow and wife Dawn’s daughter Poppy was stillborn last month it proved to Robbie the fragility of pregnancy.

 

In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Robbie says: “You know, Gaz is the most solid man I know, way more solid than me.

 

“He has the ability to put things in compartments. But this is the most testing thing he’s ever had to go through, I’m sure.

 

“It’s just one of those things where we’ll see how it goes when I see him, but it’s obviously a very, very sad time for both him, Dawn and the kids.

 

“It’s the heaviest, heaviest thing, and, like I say, Gaz is so together. We’ll sit down and have a proper chat at some point but so far it hasn’t happened.”

 

The Take That bandmates bumped into each other last week, but it wasn’t the right time for a heart-to-heart.

 

The lads were being honoured at the GQ Men Of The Year Awards — Gary picking up Outstanding Achievement and his old foe Robbie the Icon gong.

 

He explains: “We’re at an awards ceremony, it’s not the place to talk about anything. It was very much surface stuff. But we shall be spending time together soon.”

 

I spent the day with Robbie in Glasgow, where he was launching the latest range of his dapper fashion line Farrell, at House of Fraser.

 

We then travelled to the famous Barrowlands venue, where he played an outstanding gig in front of 1,500 sweaty, screaming women.

 

Robbie took time to speak to his fans and seemed to be enjoying being a full-time pop star again.

 

It has been ages since he had a drink or any drugs. He’s even been off the fags for more than five months — something he found surprisingly easy to give up.

 

Robbie says: “It’s like a miracle. I was in the car, I didn’t plan it, and I said ‘I need to get some patches’ and gave up. Five weeks with the patches on, then I forgot the patches and just carried on.

 

“My body is just f***ed though. I’ve been training the hardest I’ve ever trained. I’m also eating a lot of chocolate too. If I wasn’t eating the chocolate I’d be underpants model-ready. When you’re training, your body just aches all the time.”

 

He didn’t look like he was in pain on stage, with all the old moves — or “dad-dancing” as he calls it — on show during a greatest hits set.

 

He told the crowd he had a mobile phone in his pocket and only one woman in the world had the number — Ayda.

 

The baby, and therefore “the big call” as Robbie calls it, could come at any time.

 

He says: “She’s been confined to London. She’s not supposed to be due until the 26th.

 

“Ayda’s like a very slim girl with a basketball — from the back you can’t tell she’s pregnant. She has been like an athlete where being pregnant is concerned — she’s been a machine.

 

“The first trimester she was nauseous and the second was amazing. Then the third trimester was pretty similar up until last week.

 

“Then she had a couple of days of full-on grump, which is only to be expected when your bladder is the size of a pea and a human is treading on your insides.

 

“She got diabetes through it too, so she’s had to watch her diet. But she has been absolutely f***ing amazing, because I know that hormones get the best of people.

 

“She could have been all shapes of crazy but she’s not. Life is very stable, but very stable is not what I’ve always sought. I know you’ve got to get the balance right but I doubt that I ever will.

 

“I still want to be rock ’n’ roll, jumping off tables and going, ‘Come on, let’s have it!’

 

“It would appear that time is catching me up. And so is my lifestyle, with the family and the mummy.”

 

There’s no doubt Robbie will make a great dad. His paternal skills are something he has spent a lot of time pondering.

 

He said: “It’s so alien and also I’ve lived a very selfish life for a very long time where I haven’t had to do anything for myself.

 

“I still don’t know how to do anything for myself and there’s a little person who’s going to appear within the week maybe and I’m crapping it because if I don’t know how to look after me, how can I look after her? But I’m sure this is all very natural.”

 

Robbie will be particularly good when the ankle-biters get a bit older. Last summer the tiny members of the Take That extended family ran riot during the band’s huge Progress Live tour.

 

And Robbie’s proud to admit he became “Cheeky Uncle Rob” to all of them.

 

He said: “I have been the Take That uncle. I did appear at Gary’s house one night with a bag full of Soccer Aid balls for his lad Dan.

 

“Mark’s kids on the last tour were just a bit too young to hang out, but Howard’s little girl Lola had a bit of a crush on me, bless her.

 

“We hung out an awful lot and we played an awful lot. She sort of came and hung out in my dressing room and we watched the telly and had a chat.

 

“I took Dan to Arsenal against Manchester United at the Emirates, in the big box. I would hope that they like you.”

 

 

The biggest kid of all, though, is Robbie’s closest pal in the band — Mark Owen.

 

The lads had lengthy negotiations about who could keep the giant robot, OM, that lit up the stage on their sell-out Progress Live tour, which saw Robbie reunite with the band he quit in 1995.

 

Needless to say, Robbie won. OM now stands proudly in the grounds of his Wiltshire estate.

 

He says: “It’s funny, we’re all really close but it’s a relationship based almost entirely on email.

 

“I suppose if there wasn’t email I wouldn’t have a relationship with anybody. I don’t have a phone, I don’t ring anybody, I hate using it.

 

“I’ve let them know that I want to be part of the band whenever they see fit. I really enjoyed it.”

 

For now, Robbie’s doing the solo thing — and doing it very well.

 

He has a single coming out — Candy, on October 29 — with new album Take The Crown following on November 5.

 

And taking back his pop crown is exactly what he’s planning to do.

 

 

 

And here is Day 2

 

Link to story and photos here

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...-direction.html

 

I feel sorry for Harry Styles. When I was in Take That I could jump in a transit, go clubbing and get off my face. No one had a camera phone

— Says Robbie Williams

 

By GORDON SMART, Showbiz Editor

Published: 15th September 2012

 

ROBBIE Williams has seen it, done it and not only bought the T-shirt but released his own range.

 

As a chart veteran wise to the antics of the cut-throat music industry, he has been watching One Direction’s rise to global stardom with keen interest.

 

Comparisons are made between Take That star Robbie, 38, and Harry Styles, 20 years his junior.

 

On day two of his exclusive chat with The Sun, Robbie said: “It’s only natural a lad in a boyband will be compared to me at some point.

 

“Everybody is a ladies’ man or a man’s man, whatever your persuasion might be. He’s just having a nice time.”

 

With a trademark wink, he added: “I see Harry through bitter-getting-old-and-married-and-can’t-do-all-of-that-any-more eyes.

 

“Also, I’ve got a lot of love for him and One Direction. On the pie chart, the love outweighs the bitterness — but the bitterness is in there too.”

 

With 22 years in the music business, Robbie is well qualified to comment on the years that lie ahead for the latest boyband on the block.

 

As we chatted in his dressing room in Glasgow before his Barrowlands gig on Wednesday night, he said: “I feel a bit for Harry. 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.

 

“Whenever I had the chance to go clubbing, I went. I’d go to Miss Moneypenny’s in Birmingham, I’d go to the Hacienda in Manchester.

 

“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.”

 

Robbie was kicking himself last month as he watched the lads take part in the Olympics Closing Ceremony, from his Wiltshire home.

 

He had been invited to perform but turned it down because he thought it would be too close to the arrival of his daughter — wife Ayda is due to give birth later this month.

 

He said: “I was in LA for the start of the Olympics, with very partisan coverage. You turned on the TV and it was just American, American, American. I completely missed the Opening Ceremony. All I saw was Americans win things and come second and I didn’t engage because we hadn’t done amazingly well then.

 

“Later we got on a plane home and it all picked up. I was gutted I wasn’t doing the closing ceremony.

 

“I had the shout but said I couldn’t do it because I wanted time in LA, because I’ve got the baby coming, we’re finishing the album and once promo starts it doesn’t stop. As much as it was going to be an amazing event, I wanted to be at home with the wife, conserving energy. Then Ayda got a call saying the last time she could travel was this date — so we could have done it, and I wish I had.

 

“I was very, very excited about seeing the Spice Girls. I thought Ed Sheeran was really good, very talented and a nice lad. You didn’t see much of Elbow but you heard the song. I thought the modelling was a bit weird. Well, modelling live is weird.

 

“One Direction, God bless them, I love them to bits, they’ve a great energy and great vibe, but they always perform like they’ve never met each other — like frantic, looking around to see where they go next. They look like I feel in my head.” :lol:

Robbie’s new album, Take The Crown, is out on November 5, a week after first single Candy — and he feels like he is starting out all over again. His performances with Take That on tour last year went down a storm and his intimate gigs over the last week have had rave reviews and been a massive success with the punters. But he knows the album is make or break.

 

He said: “I’m on the cusp of bye-bye, it becomes more and more apparent. I sort of don’t walk around with the air of ‘Hey, ladies!’ any more. I feel like a dad, I really do.

 

“I remember being 20, 21, seeing that George Michael was 30, 31, and seeing that there was a gap in the market. Now I’m eight years older than that and it’s strange. But I just think I’ve built up a live reputation and that, if I’m fit enough and healthy enough, I’ll be all right.

 

“People will come and watch and hopefully leave happy, no matter what happens with the charts or radio play. It is an interesting time. It might be interesting and sad or might not, I might get a surprise.

 

“I’ve got the single coming out and I don’t know where the f*** I exist any more in the grand scheme. Whether I’m even in the grand scheme any more. Whether Radio 1 will play me? What happens now?

 

“Am I like f***ing Aerosmith ‘I don’t wanna close my eyes’ — I think they were pensioners by the time that came out.

 

“Things change quickly, so I want this album to be absolutely massive, I’ll be really upset if it isn’t. I feel very, very ambitious. Who doesn’t want to be No1? And I have a growing family to provide for too.”

 

It’s fascinating to spend time with Robbie now. He’s in great form and the happiest I’ve seen him in seven years of encounters — good and bad.

 

Over the years I’ve talked to him about his addiction to drugs, Red Bull, chocolate and muffins. We’ve talked aliens, UFOs, football and the celebrities we get along with — and more often than not, ones we don’t.

 

The quirkiest subject this time was plastic surgery. I asked if the march of time worries him and if — living in LA with characters like Simon Cowell — going under the knife has ever appealed to him.

 

He said: “I haven’t gone for the hair dye, which is a good sign. But who knows? Even before the grey came, I’ve always liked different hair colours. Now I’m not allowed to because I’m grey and people would go, ‘He’s dyed his hair because he’s grey’. But I do fancy a change every now and then.

 

“As for surgery? Probably. Yes, I probably will get heavily involved in cosmetic surgery. If you sit in a barber’s long enough you’re gonna get a haircut, if you’re in LA long enough you’re gonna wonder.

 

“Well, I would. I’m a pop star, narcissistic. I don’t want the turkey neck, it’s trying to set in now.

 

“I’ll probably get in there before anybody will know. Simon Cowell’s mega-busy, he has to be outside, you can see all the stuff behind his ear. For me, I’d take great lengths of time off, I could get away with it.

 

“The first place I put on weight is the jowl, so I’m looking forward to being unjowly. But it must go somewhere else if it doesn’t go on your jowls.”

 

Last year Robbie gave an incredible interview to Esquire magazine, talking about testosterone injections he was having. He was diagnosed as having the same level of the hormone as a pensioner.

 

But he is keen to point out it hasn’t affected him in the sack — which I wrote last year. He said: “The score is, my wife seems to be pretty dandy. Your publication seems to think it’s a sex boost but it’s got nothing to do with my testosterone. I'm really happy.”

 

It brings us back to Harry Styles and how he seems to be filling his boots like Robbie did back in the day. But I also ask Robbie about music’s other young hellraisers.

 

He said: “If you look at what’s happening to Rihanna, that’s part of the pop star’s journey. As long as she doesn’t do herself a mischief. I’m sure there’s a lot of very, very dark moments for her. You go out, you get caught up in some bad times. I wish her the best, she looks quite naughty. I wish I met her when I was 27.”

 

With a sparkle in his eye, Robbie then wanders off to count how many Wagon Wheels are left in his rider. He’s delighted there’s a full pack.

 

“The chicken and spinach diet starts after Christmas,” he tells me.

 

Now he’s managed to give up the fags, Minstrels should pose no significant problem

 

:P

 

From

http://popdash.com/news/9368/one-direction...s-to-join-group

 

 

One Direction Invite Robbie Williams To Join Group

Sixth member?

 

By Alicia Adejobi on Monday 24th September 2012

 

One Direction's Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik have invited Robbie Williams to become the sixth member of the group.

 

The Take That hitmaker is close friends with the group and even performed with them while they were contestants on The X Factor in 2010. Possibly hoping to indulge in Robbie's boyband experience, the group say he is welcome to join them on stage again anytime.

 

"That is amazing. We are actually massive fans of Robbie Williams. And after singing on the show with him and stuff," Louis told Capital FM.

 

"He can join us anytime. [The] invitation is there."

 

Meanwhile, Zayn added: "He can join whenever he wants - he knows that. It's cool."

 

We're thinking Robbie may look a little like grandad next to the younger boys!

Dear Lord. He'd look like Gulliver.... :lol:

ROBBIE WILLIAMS IS 'REALLY SCARED'

 

 

 

Robbie Williams is “really scared” of being a bad father.

 

The 'Candy' singer became a dad for the first time earlier this month when wife Ayda gave birth to their daughter Theodora 'Teddy' Rose and he is concerned about juggling his personal and professional life.

 

He said: “I've never been a pop star and a father [at the same time]. That's why I have no clue how to deal with this. I'm really scared.”

 

“I don't want to be a bad father. I mean I never really took of myself. And now I have to take care of someone else.”

 

Despite his fears, Robbie doesn't want to give up his music career or his fans.

 

He told Germany's In magazine: “If you have experienced that once you will want it over and over again. Even if it is exhausting at times. But I miss it. I want it back.”

 

However, the Take That star admits he is trying to change some of his habits.

 

He explained: “I always try to be on time or even too early now. Just because it's the proper thing to do.”

 

One reason why his timekeeping may have improved is the constant presence of his wife.

 

He admitted: “These days my wife always accompanies me when I go to work. Just because she has a positive influence on me.” - Bang Showbiz

 

 

iol.co.za

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...-for-Teddy.html

 

ROBBIE Williams is recruiting a live-in nanny to help him look after his newborn daughter Teddy.

 

The Take That star has only been a dad for five minutes.

 

But the 38-year-old is already worried the sleepless nights and constant nappy changes will drive a wedge between him and wife Ayda.

 

So he's searching for a Mary Poppins-type to take two-week-old Theodore Rose under her wing.

 

Robbie revealed: ''Am I getting help? F*** yeah. I'm getting hot and cold running help. The number of couples who have kids and argue as they haven't slept - I want the house to be happy, because we'll be happy and the baby will be happy and we can do it again. I really want to dig this.''

 

There'll be no shortage of applicants for that position!

 

The superstar recently revealed he and Ayda have abandoned plans to bring up Teddy in Los Angeles - because he fears a Hollywood upbringing would turn her into an idiot.

 

He told The Sun: "I don’t want to educate our baby in LA because I would much prefer her to have English sensibilities.

 

"They are idiots in LA schools. They are f***ing idiots. They are a breed of idiots that only exist in Los Angeles and she would be surrounded by them. It’s not like one or two either. It’s not like the Big Brother house, where you pick the worst ones.

 

"I think kids there have a massive sense of entitlement, are dull and dumb. It means me coming back to the UK for good but I can live with that. It’s worth being pestered for her to have a good school."

 

Between daddy duties, Robbie's currently rehearsing for three huge solo shows he's scheduled at London's O2 Arena.

 

The star treat fans who fill the giant venue on November 22, 23 and 24 with hits from his forthcoming album Take the Crown.

 

Fans who can't wait til then to hear Robbie's latest sounds can buy the first single, Candy, on October 29 and the album in full on November 5.

 

 

 

 

Why do they need a nanny? They're both at home most of the time. Still, good to see he hasn't forgotten his roots....

From

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a...ep-la-home.html

 

 

 

Robbie Williams 'spending fortune to keep LA home'

Published Monday, Oct 8 2012, 11:10 BST | By Tom Eames

 

 

Robbie Williams is reportedly spending a fortune each month in order to keep his Los Angeles home.

 

The 'Candy' singer recently moved to Wiltshire in the UK with wife Ayda Field and their baby Theodora Rose, but still owns his US property.

 

 

"Robbie has a fleet of staff in LA, people to look after his plants, his terrapins :wacko: , his dogs, his paintings as well as cleaners, butlers, chauffeurs and security," a source close to the family told the Daily Star.

 

"It's like a giant luxury world class hotel with swimming pools, lake and gardens but no guests.

 

"The staff are doing their chores but with no-one living there it's pretty sad."

 

Williams and Field welcomed their first child together last month, and are looking to settle down in the UK to raise her.

 

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However, the singer reportedly plans to keep their LA home in case he ever wants to have a change of scenery.

 

The source added: "Ayda is happy to get rid of the LA house but Robbie hates the UK weather and wants to be able to go back to California at the drop of a hat, so it's worth it to him."

 

Robbie Williams has been tipped as a guest fifth judge on The X Factor alongside his Take That bandmate Gary Barlow.

 

He has also revealed that he intends to send his daughter Theodora to a private school.

Don't you like terrapins then Jups :unsure:

I've not really got anything against them. I've just never heard him mention them before. :unsure: