Robbie Williams needs to return to highschool and re-sit his GCSEs

Robbie Williams is seeking to head again to highschool and hit the books, he has revealed.

Williams, who joined Take That on the age of 16 whereas getting ready for the GCSEs, has shared in a brand new chat with The Sun that he’s been weighing his choices in re-sitting for his exams, having left faculty with none {qualifications}.

He informed the publication: “I’ve been desirous to arrange a college however, really, I wouldn’t have the ability to attend if and after I do, as a result of I didn’t get any GCSEs. I bought nothing increased than a grade D, and every part else I failed or I didn’t flip up for. I actually need to return and get them.”

He continued, explaining that he hadn’t been recognized with dyslexia, dyscalculia and ADHD on the time: “All my life I’ve felt actually silly as a result of we didn’t learn about ­dyslexia within the seventies and eighties in Stoke-on-Trent. I’ve bought dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADHD, however we didn’t have these then, so I left faculty pondering I used to be a dumb-dumb and it’s taken ages to recover from that. And now I simply wanna go and show a couple of individuals flawed — I’m not thick. Now that I’ve mentioned that, I’m shitting myself…  perhaps I’m!”

Apart from desirous to re-sit his GCSEs, Robbie Williams can be entertaining the although of a TV present about his journey again to highschool: “I can’t keep in mind my English trainer’s title, however I used to be pondering there may be an attention-grabbing TV present in it, the place I’ve to return to highschool… however clearly in an age- acceptable manner.”

Williams revealed his numerical dyslexia diagnosis in 2020, inflicting him to be unable to do basic math equations and has had a bigger impact on his every day life: “I all the time get in hassle as a result of I don’t know my youngsters’ start dates and I don’t know our anniversary and I don’t know my spouse’s birthday. I can’t even keep in mind our home in Los Angeles. It has 4 digits for the beginning of the tackle and I can’t ever keep in mind what these digits are.”

Regardless of his dyslexia, ADHD and poor training, Williams has made a hit of himself, turning his time with Take That right into a formidable solo profession that has spanned many years. He’s now the topic of the biopic Higher Man, the place he’s portrayed as a CGI monkey.

Chatting with NME in regards to the movie, Williams mirrored on seeing his life story depicted on movie: “Tears. And triggering. And grief. And therapeutic. And ego. And: ‘Take a look at what’s occurred to me!’. It simply will depend on which model of me turns up for the screening on that exact day – and the way a lot sleep I’ve had.

“On the minute, I simply wanna take all of this in. I wanna drink each second that I can, as a result of I’m now in a spot the place I can derive pleasure from life. I couldn’t derive any pleasure from life for such a very long time. And I really feel as if I’m getting fortunate once more and I’m getting one other chew of the apple.”

In a three-star evaluation of Higher Man, Jordan Bassett wrote for NME: “Higher Man begins like a John Lewis advert and swerves into an R-rated hodgepodge that in some way does an excessive amount of whereas additionally barely skimming the floor of Robbie Williams’ profession. That is ‘Rudebox’ on movie: a few of it good, a few of it very unhealthy, all of it a little bit of a large number. Nonetheless, the monkey musical is an enormous swing that no-one else would have taken. You may’t fault the chutzpah or the ambition. If it makes again its reported finances, we’ll eat $110m price of bananas.”