All my life I’ve felt really stupid – so I’m going to resit my GCSEs to prove I’m not a dumb-dumb, says Robbie Williams
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AGED 16, he was plucked from the classroom and rocketed to superstardom. Thirty-five years later, Robbie Williams is gearing up to go back to school — and sit his GCSEs. If, that is, he can fit in his studies around a best-selling world tour and awards season.
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Robbie — whose latest single Forbidden Road, from his new biopic Better Man, is up for Best Original Song at next month’s Golden Globes in LA — has been busy Googling home education options. He says: “I’ve been wanting to set up a university but, actually, I wouldn’t be able to attend if and when I do, because I didn’t get any GCSEs.
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“I got nothing higher than a grade D, and everything else I failed or I didn’t turn up for. I really want to go back and get them. “I can’t remember my English teacher’s name, but I was thinking there might be an interesting TV show in it, where I have to go back to school . . . but obviously in an age- appropriate way!.
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“All my life I’ve felt really stupid because we didn’t know about dyslexia in the Seventies and Eighties in Stoke-on-Trent. “I’ve got dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADHD, but we didn’t have those then, so I left school thinking I was a dumb-dumb and it’s taken ages to get over that.
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“And now I just wanna go and prove a few people wrong — I’m not thick. Now that I’ve said that, I’m s***ing myself . . . maybe I am!”. For the record, Robbie Peter Williams is one of the brightest — and most talented — celebrities out there.
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