Will do a bit of catch up in the next few days with this book .

 

Off for a few days so chat Friday :)

How do you think the book has sold without real promotion?

How do you think the book has sold without real promotion?

I can't imagine it will have sold well outside the fan base if no one knows about it. :huh:

 

I wondered if he would try to do a bit of re-booked promo around Christmas. I read that he cancelled a slot on Graham Norton. That's worth a lot of sales in itself.

I have seen it in the bookshops here, I think it will do well at Christmas as a stocking filler :)

I guess everyone has read the entire book by now :unsure: , do you know I have not got back to it yet , I just cannot concentrate these days, too busy at work I guess so not into reading when I come home :(

I wonder how Robbie & Guy get along these days, what their relationship is like, was it difficult when they got back together ( sounds like a romance eh !! :lol: ) . Is that covered in the book ... :unsure:

I wonder how Robbie & Guy get along these days, what their relationship is like, was it difficult when they got back together ( sounds like a romance eh !! :lol: ) . Is that covered in the book ... :unsure:

Yes it is covered Tess. I think they have a very healthy friendship now. Neither of them having any exclusivity. Much more freedom. I haven't quite finished it either. I'm hoping over Christmas I might have some time to read it properly. I really have just darted about the chapters up till now. I was aware that a lot of it has been covered by Upfront though in casual comments on chat

 

Yes it is covered Tess. I think they have a very healthy friendship now. Neither of them having any exclusivity. Much more freedom. I haven't quite finished it either. I'm hoping over Christmas I might have some time to read it properly. I really have just darted about the chapters up till now. I was aware that a lot of it has been covered by Upfront though in casual comments on chat

 

 

I am glad it is working for them & that they are n longer tied to each others apron strings .

 

I am a member of Upfront but was always too lazy to bother going on there so a lot of the stuff in the book is new to me which is really nice actually :P

He talks about his relationship with Ayda .. Chemistry, personality, trust, laughter , best friends , he loves her, he likes her & they have a lot of fun

 

 

I think that is just great :wub:

He talks about his relationship with Ayda .. Chemistry, personality, trust, laughter , best friends , he loves her, he likes her & they have a lot of fun

I think that is just great :wub:

 

 

He absolutely adores her doesn't he?

 

That's why I had to laugh at some of the conspiracy theories that were abounding while he was getting over his illness.

 

I saw loads of fans who thought that they had split up.

 

I just think they're very, very happy together.

Page 460 - again what we already knew but interesting nonetheless

 

"There are no photos of Robbie Williams on show in this house, or any of his houses. No gold discs. No awards in cabinets or on mantelpieces. Just because the career paid for the house, no reason that the house should be a shrine to the career.

 

There is actually one of his 18 Brit Awards within these walls, the most recent, the Brit Icon Award. Ayda has that in her dressing room, having forbidden him to do with it what he has done with all of the others: give it away.

 

 

****

 

The reason he gives for not wanting the awards around is the same one he gives for why they make him feel uncomfortable in the first place - the same exhausting counter-logic that for years and years has fired up, then sabotaged, then reignited his career.

 

'It's a mirror for my neurosis and my self -worth. I don't think I deserve them, so they're monuments to my lack of self worth'.

 

He has all the reminders he needs, good and bad, of who he is inside his head. He gets plenty more whenever he leaves the property and steps into the outside world. There's a limit to how much control he has over either of those, and he spends plenty of time in both those places. But in the space in between, the house in which he lives, it's nice to imagine that there can be a calm place where other things are more important, if only for a while".

 

" it's nice to imagine that there can be a calm place where other things are more important "

 

 

Family time away from the madness of showbusiness must be hugely important . Robbie was so lucky to have met Ayda & now they have their own lovely little family & when all the madness is over they will still be there, no more coming home to empty houses , he surely has to appreciate that

 

 

 

He absolutely adores her doesn't he?

 

That's why I had to laugh at some of the conspiracy theories that were abounding while he was getting over his illness.

 

I saw loads of fans who thought that they had split up.

 

I just think they're very, very happy together.

 

 

Wishful thinking on their part I would think :lol:

Wishful thinking on their part I would think :lol:

 

 

Quite!

Page 127

 

 

I just love the bit about turning off the lights & blowing out the candels

 

The house smells great but it smells of lost money ...

 

 

Oh My, oh my :lol:

 

 

I wonder what he thinks when he sees her with a new handbag or does she do like most women 7 shove them in the back of the wardrobe until time has passed before they make an appearance :lol:

Page 127

I just love the bit about turning off the lights & blowing out the candels

 

The house smells great but it smells of lost money ...

Oh My, oh my :lol:

I wonder what he thinks when he sees her with a new handbag or does she do like most women 7 shove them in the back of the wardrobe until time has passed before they make an appearance :lol:

 

You can take the boy out of Stoke.... ^_^

 

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You know I had forgotten about Chrisonabike & TheAboveTopSecret ...godh something really good came out of that especially the very unusual song Deceptacon which I really love

 

Microwave yourself today

 

Leave it for a rainy day

 

 

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The Graham Norton Show reveals another stellar line-up, featuring Stephen Fry, Carey Mulligan, Robbie Williams! and more

https://buff.ly/2mdhKfC

 

 

 

 

December 1st Graham Norton according to this. Presumably promo for the book that was previously cancelled?

That is great to hear Laura , just the right sort of relaxed show for Robbie to make he reappearance on . I love GN, I was watching him last night on BBC, his laugh is just infectious & he has a great sense of fun so looking forward to this , I doubt it will be a very serious interview as GN does not do serious :P

That is great to hear Laura , just the right sort of relaxed show for Robbie to make he reappearance on . I love GN, I was watching him last night on BBC, his laugh is just infectious & he has a great sense of fun so looking forward to this , I doubt it will be a very serious interview as GN does not do serious :P

 

We really enjoyed it last night too. Hacked off Hugh. I love him. B-)