Robbie Williams Opens Up About Family Dynamics and Future Plans
Music legend Robbie Williams has offered a rare glimpse into his domestic life with wife Ayda Field and their four children, while making a significant announcement about the family's future. The Stoke-on-Trent-born singer, now 51, discussed the unique humour that defines their household and shared a surprising revelation about how his eldest daughter views him.
An Unusual Family Nickname Revealed
During a candid interview with Woman's Weekly, Williams disclosed that his 13-year-old daughter Teddy has given him a particularly blunt two-word nickname in her iPad contacts. The pop star revealed she lists him as "Narcissistic Dad", highlighting the family's distinctive approach to communication.
"We exist in this place of humour," Williams explained. "The kids wouldn't understand how problematic real life is, but my wife's and my love language is taking the mickey out of each other. We have this gallows humour that the children are picking up on."
A Renewed Commitment After Health Battles
The couple, who met in 2006 while reportedly working on a UFO documentary and married in 2010, recently renewed their wedding vows in 2024. Ayda Field later explained on Loose Women that this second ceremony carried profound meaning compared to their original wedding.
"The first time we just said yeah, yeah, yeah, I do, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, for better or worse, but that didn't really mean anything," Field reflected. "This time it had so much meaning and we actually wrote our own vows to each other. There was real substance to the words and everything I said and he said came from a real authentic place."
The vow renewal followed fourteen years of marriage during which they raised four children together and navigated Williams's well-documented health struggles.
A Definitive Decision on Family Expansion
Now celebrating sixteen years as a married couple, Williams has made one aspect of their future absolutely clear. The singer has definitively ruled out adding a fifth child to their family, despite his wife occasionally raising the possibility.
"She brings it up all the time and, no, I'm done," Williams stated firmly. "I'm loving what we're going through and what we're experiencing, but I don't want to start again. We've got four children - that's four more than I ever thought I'd have."
From Take That to Solo Success
The family update comes as Williams continues to enjoy remarkable professional success. His most recent album, Britpop, saw him overtake The Beatles as the artist with the most number one albums in UK chart history.
Reflecting on his career trajectory to the BBC, Williams offered a characteristically vivid analogy: "I've always said my success has been the equivalent of stretching an elastic band from Stoke-on-Trent to the Moon. Well, I reckon the elastic band just got longer, and now it's orbiting Venus."
Williams first rose to prominence as a member of Take That alongside Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Mark Owen and Jason Orange, before leaving the band in 1995 amid struggles with addiction and what he described as being "in the middle of a nervous breakdown." His solo career, launched with 1997's Life Thru a Lens, has now spanned nearly three decades of chart dominance.
The Williams-Field family currently includes children Teddy (13), Charlie (11), Coco (7) and Beau (5), creating a lively household where humour apparently serves as the primary bonding mechanism.
