ROBBIE Williams says he was told to adopt the name “Robbie” by his manager but hated it as it sounds “cute”. The star — real moniker Robert Williams — said he was horrified as he wanted to be “street and cool”.
It happened when Robbie started his career with Take That aged 16. Despite his reservations, he said being told he had to drop Rob or Robert ultimately helped him because he came to regard Robbie as his alter ego.
Robbie, 48, said: “The name Robbie wasn’t my idea. “The name was given to me by my manager.” Most read in MusicSTAR POWER Noughties pop star unrecognisable 23 years after chart hits - can you guess who?GUESS WHO Nineties superstar unrecognisable 25yrs after smash No1 - can you tell who it is?TAKE FAT!
I've lost weight & I berate myself less. After 25 years, I'm happy says RobbiePlaylist Themba pushes the futuristic boundaries of African dance music He said he was told: “OK, you’re not Robert any more, you’re Robbie.” Speaking on Radio 1 DJ Annie Macmanus’s podcast Changes, he added: “I hated it because it made me sound cute — and I didn’t want to sound cute. “I wanted to be street and cool, and Robbie was just not.” The star said he now realises that having a different name helped him cope at the peak of his career when the “order of the day” was to “lacerate, dehumanise, vilify, pull down, put a contract out to kill (celebrities), beat them up”.
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