Robbie Williams, 50, planning to resit his GCSEs as he’s always felt ‘a dumb-dumb’
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Robbie Williams is looking to go back to school and resit his GCSEs after leaving education early for the bright lights of showbiz. However, the Rock DJ chart-topper will have to fit in any qualification aspirations with his 2025 world tour as well as promoting his eagerly anticipated musical biopic Better Man.
![[Mandatory Credit: Photo by News Group Newspapers Ltd/REX/Shutterstock (206935d) Boy Band Pop Group: Take That - Robbie Williams TAKE THAT - 1992]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_234106667-931f.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
But Williams, 50, whose single Forbidden Road from the new movie is up for best original song at next month’s Golden Globes, has reportedly been busy Googling home education options. ‘I’ve been wanting to set up a university,’ he revealed, ‘but, actually, I wouldn’t be able to attend if and when I do, because I didn’t get any GCSEs.’.
![[Mandatory Credit: Photo by Hollandse Hoogte/REX/Shutterstock (14990525j) Robbie Williams on the carpet during the premiere at the Royal Theater Tuschinski of the film Better Man about Williams' life. Premiere Film Better Man About Life Robbie Williams, Amsterdam - 10 Dec 2024]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_234106552-2d26.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
‘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,’ the star explained to The Sun. Always full of ideas, the former Take That member admitted he couldn’t remember his English teacher’s name but was ‘thinking there might be an interesting TV show in it, where I have to go back to school – obviously in an age-appropriate way’.
![[Mandatory Credit: Photo by Geoffrey Swaine/REX/Shutterstock (629694b) Take That - Gary Barlow, Robbie Williams, Jason Orange, Howard Donald and Mark Owen Take That at the Majestic Ballroom, Reading, Berkshire, Britain - May 1991]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_234106668-445c.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
As depicted in Better Man, it was Williams’ GCSE year that saw him plucked from obscurity to join the boy band with whom he enjoyed massive success after a couple of years’ hard graft. The Angels and She’s the One singer has felt self-conscious about it since though, sharing that throughout his life ‘I’ve felt really stupid because we didn’t know about dyslexia in the ’70s and ’80s in Stoke-on-Trent’.
