Robbie: Hello, maam (dodgy American accent)

CDUK Presenter: Hi, what's Pittsburgh famous for?

Robbie: What's Pittsburgh famous for....we have lots of famous er.......remember when I tell you this that I was here longer than your ancestors ever were, right here......in Pittsburgh the queuing system, before Pittsburgh was invented no one knew how to queue. I'm here to find my long lost cousin.

CDUK Presenter: Who is....

Robbie: His name is Robbie...Robbbie Williams.

CDUK Presenter: I tell you what, can you take me to him right away, I've got to get there really quick. Do you know where he is?

Robbie: Supposedly hiding in the building right behind me.

CDUK Presenter: Come on, come on quick (ushering Rob up from the park bench)

Robbie: We go now....

Next thing we see is Rob sitting on a hotel bed with the presenter.

CDUK Presenter: Now you're on tour in the US, how's it going?

Robbie: It's going all right actually.

CDUK Presenter: Is it?

Robbie: It's jolly nice.

CDUK Presenter: Played any gigs yet?

Robbie: Played loads

CDUK Presenter: Cracking America, how important is it to you, cause' obviously we've had a few English bands that have come over.

Robbie: Erm, I'm just trying to figure out whether it is important to me right now. I'm trying to figure out what's making me stay here. America is a fantastic country to come and view and be an onlooker and look at. But, unfortunately along the same time of me being here and experiencing the culture and that, I've got to get up on stage and sell meself and I'm really not into that at the minute.

CDUK Presenter: But the must be some great times here along the way as well. Surely could you not think there could another great time coming up as well?

Robbie: Erm, to tell you the truth getting to where I've got to you has been that much of a struggle, you know when I'm on stage I'm going 'Do they like me, do they not like me.....', I'm very bothered by what people think about me and I've got to the point where I'm not arsed what people think about me at all and that means that I really have know point in being on stage.

CDUK Presenter: We were at Slane, it was excellent.

Robbie: Thank you very much

CDUK Presenter: Very very good, it broke box office records in Ireland. Did you enjoy it?

Robbie: Erm, actually it's a crying shame, because I didn't, no I didn't enjoy it. The audience were absolutely awesome and it's a really big shame because it was like the biggest event that I've ever done in my career and I was so unhappy. You know, I was so unhappy and so scared, actually petrified to get on stage, I got this hour and a half to do or two hours to do infront of this amount of people and it was that feeling of achieving what you'd always wanted to do and getting there and going it's paradise syndrome or something like that. Actually going there....and going 'Mmm I'm really sad.'

[Clip Shown from It's Only Us Video]

Robbie: I think the best thing about doing my job is doing videos and I do like inventing characters.

CDUK Presenter: So what can we expecting from the future, what characters?

Robbie: Wrestling.

[Clip Shown from It's Only Us Video]

Robbie: Well, I'm not actually a big fan of It's Only Us

CDUK Presenter: No?

Robbie: No, I think I like it more than I ever had done.

CDUK Presenter: So, why did you release them both then?

Robbie: I don't know (shrugs), I'm really not that bothered to tell you the truth. Erm, I really like She's The One, I really like She's The One, but when I came to record the vocal for It's Only Us, it's all this....[sings chorus of It's Only Us - cabaret style!]...and I really wasn't that much into it.

[Clip Shown from She's The One Video]

Robbie: The video concept for She's The One by two people called Nick and Dom who are amazing, erm they came up with this idea that I'd be an ice-skating champion...oooh!

CDUK Presenter: Another excuse I think for another 'sparkling - leatherette look - fringed costume.

Robbie: I mean you don't have to bend an Englishman's arm to get him in drag.

[Clip Shown from She's The One Video]

CDUK Presenter: Over the four years since Take That split up, do you still see any of the boys?

Robbie: I don't have that much contact, I saw Mark a couple of weeks ago.

CDUK Presenter: But apart from that, not really?

Robbie: No not really.

CDUK Presenter: Because when you all split up, the press were making a thing of it and were kind of citing Gary as the new George Michael and you were always the joker of the band.

Robbie: I was the Andrew Ridgely

CDUK Presenter: But now you've kind of....his album's gone in at 35/36 and now you're potentially one of the biggest artists on the planet. Does that give you a sense of satisfaction?

Robbie: I've said a lot of nasty things about Gary and you know, I've never wished him harm, do you know what I mean, that's not something I've wished upon him. I've heard about where is records are going and what's happening and he's becoming a bit of a laughing stock and that's not fair, do you know what I mean. He does write good pop songs, he does write good pop songs, it's a shame, it's a shame what's happened.

[Clip Shown from Strong - Slane Castle]

CDUK Presenter: When Tom Jones came on to our show... you really like him don't you?

Robbie: I do yeah, well he came into the studio when we were doing this song and he did this one take. At the beginning of it he said: [assumes Tom Jones accent] 'Are you ready Robbie' and I said 'I'm ready' and he said [ Tom Jones accent] 'You were born ready, I should know, I was there' and that was me gone 'Ooh I love you Tom, I love you!

Next scene we see Robbie dressed as Mr Pittsburgh again outside the hotel saying goodbye.

End of Interview

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