ROBBIE WILLIAMS FEARS HIS DAUGHTER TEDDY IS TOO MUCH LIKE HIM

POP icon Robbie Williams fears his daughter Theodora "Teddy" Rose is too much like him.

The 13 year-old rising star recently showed off her acting chops in the movie, Tinsel Town and she dreams of becoming a singer like her famous dad. However, Robbie knows all the pitfalls and sees a lot of himself in the youngster.

Rob said: "Ted in particular is so desperate for it. Now, when I was growing up in Stoke-on Trent, I was also incredibly desperate for it, whatever it was, you know, watching Top of the Pops on Thursday and thinking, how the hell do I get in that box in the corner of this room and be one of those people?

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"But I've never seen it so acute as I do with Ted. She sent me a text the other day. And it goes, let me get this. It says - this was Thursday, six minutes past two in the morning, ‘Dad, what if I'm not a singer? It's my biggest fear not to be a singer.’ Biggest capital letters. ‘What if I'm nothing?’ And I was like, ‘babe, you're a nepo. You'll be fine'."

Although knows Teddy has the talent, his main concern is whether she has the strength to deal with everything else that a popstar lifestyle demands.

He told The Scott Mills Breakfast Show: "The only thing that worries me about it is, she's incredibly sensitive. I am painfully, painfully sensitive. In some quarters it would be deemed as being oversensitive. She is worse than me. And I'm worried about what words will do to her. For me, it was either this or stacking shelves at ASDA – so this, every single day and for Ted, she’s got options.

"I’m just worried about words, and mean people and – I’m not worried - because like I can steer her professionally so that's okay, it's just everything else that comes with it and also you know, besides all of that, it's a wonderful, wonderful life and a wonderful, wonderful job and you get to be creative for a living and I'm very grateful and incredibly lucky."

Robbie, who returns with new album Britpop next month, was pleased to have his dad Pete Conway visit a recent show of his.

"My dad's unfortunately got Parkinson's," he said. "He hasn't left his house for a couple of years, really, just for bits and pieces and then I think he hasn't left his bedroom for a bit and then his friends convinced him to get in a car and come to his son's show.

"He travelled from Stoke-on-Trent up to Newcastle in his wheelchair and he sat in front of the big screen, stage right, in his wheelchair just watching his son, and every now and again I would go back and just check to see what he was doing. And every time I’d look at his face he just had this big, proud, beaming smile. And I will take that with me for the rest of my life."

After years of struggle Rob is loving life again, and simply loving being Robbie. "I can now understand the gift that has been given to me with my career and my life and the opportunities that I have.

"So I think, and I make no apologies for the namaste-ness of it, you know, it's gratitude. It's all gratitude and how lucky I feel to still be here."

The full interview will be broadcast on The Scott Mills Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2 on Monday from 8am-9am.

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2026-01-09T18:37:07Z