Robbie Williams reveals plans to resit GCSEs after feeling 'stupid' all his life

Singer Robbie Williams, who is gearing up for the release of his biopic, revealed his hopes to resit his GCSEs and 'prove a few people wrong'

Robbie Williams has opened up about his plans to resit his GCSEs after 'feeling stupid' for most of his life.

The Take That singer is currently gearing up for the release of his biopic, Better Man. The movie, which will be released in cinemas on Boxing Day, explores Stoke-born Robbie’s life from childhood until 2003 – the year he broke records by playing three huge gigs at Knebworth to annoy Oasis, who only did two.

Director Michael Gracey, who also made The Greatest Show­man, said a CGI chimp depicts Robbie in the film because he always “felt like a performing monkey”. It doesn’t shy away from the singer’s dark days either, depicting the drug use and mental health battle that almost killed him.

Ahead of the release, Robbie opened up about going to school as a child and how he never got his GCSEs. He also revealed he wanted to 'set up a university' but wouldn't be able to attend himself as he didn't get any GCSEs. He said in a recent chat: "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."

He also said to The Sun: "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."

Robbie said he wants to 'prove a few people wrong'. Meanwhile, Robbie's dream of bagging an Oscar has Come Undone after his song was disqualified for sounding too much like another tune. Forbidden Road, from his biopic Better Man, was shortlisted last week for Best Original Song.

But Academy Award bosses have since ruled it out of contention. They said it sounds too similar to I Got a Name from 1973 film, The Last American Hero. A letter sent out to voters in the music category said Robbie’s track “incorporates material from an existing song that was not written for the film” so it has been deemed ineligible for the Oscar, US site Variety reports.

Thankfully, he can console himself with the possibility of winning a Golden Globe for the song on January 5. During a Golden Globes First Time Nominees event, he shared his excitement at the nomination.

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