Robbie: My last BIG vice

Live: Robbie Williams

A reminder of why Robbie became so big in the first place.

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19/09/2009

HE managed to quit booze, drugs and raunchy sex sessions, but today ROBBIE WILLIAMS finally discusses his biggest vice . . . FOOD.

As he launches his comeback single, appropriately called Bodies, Robbie tells how he ballooned after his shock decision to RETIRE.

Speaking eXSclusively for the first time about his battle with the bulge after he quit Britain, the Robster says: "I had burnt out. I was completely burnt out.

"That was it. I decided, I'm retiring. I didn't say it but I thought it. I thought, 'I'm going to go off and do something else'.

"I thought it would present itself to me. It would be a proper job. It would be humanitarian."

Sadly Robbie's "humanitarian" didn't involve anything as noble as feeding solving Third World debt or feeding the starving Africa.

In fact the Robster seemed to go out of his way to deprive the starving millions of any spare food that might have gone their way.

He admits: "I just sat on my a*** and ATE. I was waiting on the sofa for something to happen and I wasn't very pro-active about searching for this other job."

Eventually, shocked by his rapidly expanding waistline, he decided something had to change.

"Nothing came along and then the album presented itself," Robbie recalls. "I'd got enough sleep and I was ready to come back and go, 'Hey what do you think of this?' "

Now it's a case of Sing When You're Slimming, although that doesn't mean food isn't still his greatest tempation (I know how he feels). Rob says he'd even choose FOOD over SEX. "If the world was going to end in three months I would gorge myself," he laughs.

"So many times women get the man of their dreams, they get the ring on and eats lots of food and get massive. And I'm reversing the roles. That's what I'm going to do when this album's over."

Rob says that after a string of disastrous relationships, he's finally found happiness with girlfriend Ayda Field. "It was time she entered my life," he says.

And he vows he'd never again put his career above his relationship with his 30-year-old missus.

He says: "Career or love? Fortunately it's not a choice I have to make but, yeah, if I had to I'd go be in a tent with Ayda somewhere in the jungle."

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Antidepressants do often lead to people putting on weight and Robbie has certainly been on them in the past, but, erik, they don't rob you "of your enthusiasm/passion for life"- quite the opposite- they put that back into life. It's hard to have that enthusiasm when all you want to do is die.

By M Jones.. Posted September 20 2009 at 4:33 PM.

Im only about five minutes pregnant, but already look like the virgin mary at the annual bethlehem christmas fete. really, robster, until you are eating your way through lumps of cheese and barrels of yoghurt, you are not doing too bad. have a baby rob. That'll be the best excuse ever for pigging out. rgds, Trunky xx

By trunky.. Posted September 20 2009 at 1:37 PM.

Its his realness, thats the appeal.
I love robbie, cant wait for the new album. He looks mighty fine to me anyhow.

By Rudebox.. Posted September 20 2009 at 11:08 AM.

Funnily Enough, I Dont Call that Overly Fat ( Compared To Some People ).

By samantha.. Posted September 20 2009 at 8:51 AM.

It sounds as though he suffers from an addictive personality. If it's not drink, drugs, food etc it has to be something else.

Many people who entertain suffer from depression or need to be alone after their job has finished for the day. He entertained the world for years.

By jon ward.. Posted September 20 2009 at 8:26 AM.

come see me in thailand robbie have a quiet drink with me and chat,brilliant showman,great voice,all the best mate.

By terry turner.. Posted September 20 2009 at 8:23 AM.

Anti- depressants will do that to you every time ,as well as robbing you of your enthusiasm/passion for life.Maybe now Robbies happy and drug and alchohol free he can quit medication and exercize his way back to the creative and joyfull performer he was . I hope so coz I really miss the original Robbie {even when he was on drugs ,sex and rock and roll} Now he's like the sedated down version .

By erik.. Posted September 20 2009 at 4:58 AM.

You're not addicted to food Robbie, you're addicted to yourself.

Let's hope you can find a cure.

By Tearful Chunt.. Posted September 20 2009 at 2:04 AM.

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