Robbie Williams wants to go back to school and re-sit his GCSEs

nme.com:

Robbie Williams is looking to head back to school and hit the books, he has revealed.Williams, who joined Take That at the age of 16 while preparing for the GCSEs, has shared in a new chat with The Sun that he’s been weighing his options in re-sitting for his exams, having left school without any qualifications.He told the publication: “I’ve been wanting to set up a university but, actually, I wouldn’t be able to attend if and when I do, because I didn’t get any GCSEs.

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 continued, explaining that he hadn’t been diagnosed with dyslexia, dyscalculia and ADHD at the time: “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.

And now I just wanna go and prove a few people wrong — I’m not thick. Now that I’ve said that, I’m shitting myself…  maybe I am!”Besides wanting to re-sit his GCSEs, Robbie Williams is also entertaining the though of a TV show about his journey back to school: “I can’t remember my English teacher’s name, but I was thinking there might be an interesting TV show in it, where I have to go back to school… but obviously in an age- appropriate way.”Williams revealed his numerical dyslexia diagnosis in 2020, causing him to be unable to do simple math equations and has had a larger effect on his daily life: “I always get in trouble because I don’t know my kids’ birth dates and I don’t know our anniversary and I don’t know my wife’s birthday.