Robbie Williams wants his own late night show complete with ‘naughty humour’
The singer was a judge on X Factor for one series and now wants his own show – which could look like a cross between Saturday Night Takeaway and The Word on screen
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Robbie Williams says he wants to return to British TV with his own late night variety show.
The singer was a judge on X Factor for one series and now wants his own show.
Predicting what it could look like, it sounded like a cross between Saturday Night Takeaway and The Word on screen.
Robbie, 46, said: “I would like a big television show. Like a huge franchise. I would like to do a bit of everything.
“I would like to get my jollies off with a bit of comedy. Not in like 7.30pm Saturday night kind of way, like a 10.30pm Channel 4 type of way.”
He added: “Like naughty humour. And I would like to have a finger in a pie where I would be 7.30pm on a Saturday night too. Like different shows.”
Speaking his podcast At Home With the Williamses, Robbie explained he had come around to the idea of a TV show following his appearance on The X Factor in 2018 alongside wife Ayda.
The show struggled in the ratings but at the time Robbie said “I’ve had the most fun that I’ve ever had in the entertainment industry” and also mentioned the possibility of working on other TV projects in the future with Simon Cowell.
He added: “I want to get into TV. I want to scratch my itch. It’s going up the rope without a carabiner and without a safety net. I found that out at the X Factor. It was so much fun and so buzzy and so unsafe.
“It was kind of anarchic in its sensibilities where you are literally being judged by millions of people and one syllable out of line can cause an international incident. It is so much fun. I am very excited.”
Robbie has hinted earlier this week that he would like to quit his lifestyle in LA and return to his beloved Stoke-on-Trent, which would make things easier for him to work on British TV.
He currently lives in Beverly Hills with his wife Ayda Field and their four children –Teddy, aged seven, Charlton, aged five, Colette, aged one, and five-month-old Beau.
But he said: “There are some bad things about LA too. I didn’t even know the word ‘entitlement’ until I got here.
“There are these kids with a sense of entitlement because of the place they were born and the parents they have and having the money that they have.
“I was like, ‘I don’t want my kids anywhere near these kids’. I’d never seen it in my life before and it literally made me slack-jawed.”
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