He is been a beacon of British popular culture for 30 years, and now Robbie Williams is opening up his superstar archive for a brand new Netflix documentary, premiering on November. With never-seen-before footage and his cheeky persona, the trailer hints at his outlandish youthful years in Take That and the way he has coped with being within the highlight ever since. Plus, there’s even cameos of his youngsters.
The 2-and-a-half minute trailer ends along with his eldest daughter, Teddy, singing his hit track “Angels” – and she or he sounds fairly good! Within the teaser trailer, launched every week earlier than, Williams he tells one among his children, “You’ll watch the documentary if you’re a lot older”. They ask what occurred, to which Williams replies: “Rather a lot”.
It is no secret that Williams has a chequered previous. Through the peak of his fame, he struggled along with his psychological well being, resulting in alcoholism and substance abuse. He was additionally identified for his tumultuous love life, together with high-profile, short-lived relationships with Mel C of the Spice Ladies and All Saints star, Nicole Appleton. “The factor that might destroy me has additionally made me profitable,” he says within the trailer.
Robbie lastly settled down with US actor Ayda Discipline, after the pair met in Might 2006 when she featured in a UFO documentary he produced for BBC Radio 4. The couple married at their dwelling in Mulholland Estates in Beverly Hills on 7 August, 2010 and have had stints dwelling in each the USA and UK, lastly residing in West London. They’ve additionally gone on to have 4 youngsters, however are personal about what they share about their household life, typically solely displaying them on social media from behind.
But, we’ve had glimpses of their lives through the years. From a Royal connection to labour movies, here is what we find out about Robbie’s children.
Theodora “Teddy” Rose Williams
Ayda gave beginning to their first youngster, a daughter, in London on 18 September, 2012. As her mother and father aimed to guard her from the limelight, little was identified about her early years, however the couple have shared tidbits of details about their first-born over the past decade.
In an interview in Jan 2023 on the “Robbie Williams Rewind” podcast, he stated: “Ted’s a performer, approach forward of the place I used to be on the identical age as her, simply unbelievable. ‘Her persona – and I do know there’s the proud dad facet of all the things however, belief me, I do know when my youngsters are good at issues and never good at different issues. She, particularly, is a mini-me on the subject of efficiency.”
Ayda has additionally spoken of Teddy’s love of music, posting clips to Instagram of her enjoying the piano and singing. And it appears to be like like we will get extra of this within the Netflix doc, too.
In a considerably unlikely flip of occasions, Teddy was even a bridesmaid at a royal marriage ceremony. Again in October 2018, the then six-year-old performed an essential position in Princess Eugenie’s marriage ceremony to Jack Brooksbank, alongside Princess Charlotte. The 2 {couples} struck up a friendship again in 2011 once they all holidayed collectively in St Barts. Since then, that they had all frolicked collectively quite a lot of occasions, sparking a bond robust sufficient that Teddy was invited into the Royal bridal get together.
Charlton “Charlie” Valentine Williams
Robbie and Ayda welcomed their first son on 27 October, 2014, and revealed the joyful information in a usually hilarious approach. Robbie documented Ayda’s labour in a sequence of YouTube movies which included him singing Frozen’s “Let It Go” as she ready to push. Whereas we think about it did not go down too nicely along with his different half, followers have been glued to the updates. In a last video, Robbie stated: “I’ve by no means been extra in love and by no means been extra pleased with my spouse. Thanks for sharing the journey with us, we’ve been blessed with a fantastic child boy.”
Colette “Coco” Josephine Williams
On 7 September, 2018, the couple shocked followers by asserting that they had welcomed a 3rd youngster, and second daughter, through surrogate. Ayda posted a black and white photograph of Robbie’s hand amid three little fingers to suggest that they had expanded their household. “It has been a really lengthy and tough path to get right here, which is why we’ve saved it on the down low,” Ayda captioned her put up. “Household is available in all varieties, and this little girl, who’s biologically ours, was carried by an unbelievable surrogate mom, to whom we might be eternally grateful.”
Beau Benedict Enthoven Williams
Valentine’s 2020 was a really lovedup date for the Williams crew. The household welcomed a child boy on the big day through surrogate. Ayda posted the shock information on Instagram in the same type to her announcement of Colette, this time taking a pictures of her youngsters’s ft. “As with Coco, he’s biologically ours, however born through our identical unbelievable surrogate. We’re so blessed to have our wholesome son safely in our arms and are formally full as a household,” she wrote.
