Robbie Williams has been in a refreshingly reflective mood of late. The star has given increasingly honest interviews and held his hands up to his own past transgressions in recent years.

It was impossible not to feel empathy for him as he opened up about his time in Take That for the BBC‘s recent documentary series Boyband’s Forever, recalling the cruelty inflicted on him by the music industry before he even reached adulthood.

Therefore it seems surprising that he would choose to be…