14 Interesting Facts About Robbie Williams

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#001
Robbie Williams initially wanted to be an actor, but he saw a newspaper advertisement placed by a band member and was accepted into Take That.
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#002
Shortly after announcing his 2006 World Tour, 1.6 million tickets were sold in a single day, earning him a place in the Guinness World Records book.
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After building his own football pitch at his Los Angeles home, Robbie Williams founded the L. A. Vale football team in 2005 together with other celebrity friends. They now play in the LA Premier League.
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#004
Robbie Williams left Take That in 1995 because of his struggle with drugs. The group disbanded in 1996 but reunited in 2005, and Williams joined them in 2010. The group's first album after reuniting with Williams, Progress, became the fastest-selling album of the century with 235,000 copies sold on its first day, and the second fastest-selling album in history with 520,000 copies sold in its first week.
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#005
Robbie Williams has a strong interest in UFOs and related paranormal phenomena, and is therefore a fan of the popular series The X-Files (1993).
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#006
Robbie Williams claims to have seen three UFOs in his lifetime.
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#007
With the help of Comic Relief, Robbie Williams founded a charity in his hometown called "Give It Sum", whose aim was to "improve local conditions and strengthen community life by giving money to those who are disadvantaged."
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#008
He released his first live album, 'Live at Knebworth', in 2003. A total of 375,000 fans attended the three shows. It became the fastest- and best-selling live album ever in the United Kingdom. Certified 3x Platinum by the IFPI for shipments of more than 3 million copies in total, the album sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide.
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#009
For the past 8 years he has been Patron of the Donna Louise Trust, a children's charity based in his hometown of Stoke-on-Trent. The charity offers respite and palliative care to terminally ill and life-limited children not expected to reach the age of 16.
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#010
His latest album "Rudebox" was voted "Worst Album" by readers of "NME" magazine in 2006 (March 2007), in a vote with the highest number of voters ever recorded in that category.
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#011
In the song "The Actor" on the "Rudebox" album he mentions actresses such as Marilyn Monroe, Katharine Hepburn, Jayne Mansfield, Judi Dench, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Brigitte Bardot and Hilary Swank, and actors such as David Niven, Ted Danson, Burt Reynolds and Joaquin Phoenix.
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#012
He bought an undisclosed number of shares in his favourite football club, Port Vale (February 2006).
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#013
He is the most featured artist in the UK 'Now That's What I Call Music!' series. He appeared 29 times in the first 68 'Now!' releases (4 of them with Take That).
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#014
At the end of 2001, Robbie Williams reached number one in the United Kingdom with a duet recording of "Somethin' Stupid" with Nicole Kidman. In 1967, the same song had first topped the Billboard charts for Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra.
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