Robbie reveals 'THIS IS THE REAL ME'

SECRET STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPHS ARE SHARED IN HIS COMPELLING NEW DOCUSERIES

We've let him entertain us for 25 years. Now Robbie Williams is adding a few more hours to that tally, thanks to the release of his four-part Netflix documentary series.

"There were no rules," Robbie, 49, says about filming the self-titled noholds-barred doco, which premieres on November 8.

"I'm more likely than most people to leave everything in. I very rarely have said.

That's too much, leave it off."" In the series, expect Robbie, who will be in Australia next week for his XXV tour, to open up on...

HIS EARLY DAYS

Robbie was born in Stokeon-Trent in the UK on February 13, 1974. His parents Pete and Janet divorced when he was three and he grew up with Janet and his sister Sally.

His upbringing wasn't easy but Robbie was close to his parents, even if his mum was particularly strict.

"My mum is a tiny five-foot, three-inch woman and when I was a kid, all she had to do was look at me in a certain way and I'd immediately stop whatever I was doing and I'd never do it again," Robbie told Who last year.

Now that he is a parent himself to Teddy, 11, Charlie, eight, Coco, four and Beau, three, with his wife Ayda Field - Robbie says he's "big on manners" and guards against spoilt behaviours.