• Full name: Robert Peter Maximiliam Williams. Maximiliam is not an official middle name, but one given to him at his christening
  • Lost the plot after leaving Take That, ending up in Clouds House Rehabilitation Clinic for alcohol and drug addiction treatment
  • Travelled to Sri Lanka with Ian Dury in 1998 to work for the charity Unicef
  • Posed nude on the cover of Vogue with supermodel, Gisele
  • Swing When You're Winning wasn't expected to sell many copies; it went on to go triple platinum
  • He wears a mask and the same jacket every time he leaves his house so the waiting papparazzi always end up with the same shot
  • He had 1/2 hour's worth of horse-riding lessons before acting as a cowboy in the video for "Feel"

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