What is the plot of Netflix’**s Robbie Williams?**

Combining new interviews and footage from 25 years’ worth of media archives, the documentary will shed a light on the harsh realities of fame, a story that has followed Williams ever since he was thrust into the spotlight. It will also include hundreds of hours of intimate, never-before-seen personal archival footage.

The series will be executively produced by Asif Kapadia, the documentarian renowned for taking on other famous subjects in Amy, Diego Maradona and Senna.

Williams is certainly a man with a story to tell. Not surprising, since he’s been on the scene for decades.

He began his career in 1989, the fifth member of boy band sensation Take That. When it comes to their legacy, Take That walked so One Direction could fly. They became immensely popular after a string of hits in the late 90s, skyrocketing them to fame.

Williams was the band’s quintessential ‘bad boy’, and fans were devastated when it was announced he would be leaving the band in 1995. He went on to start a solo career that gave his name musical immortality, releasing Angels in 1997 – a single that would become and remain his bestselling single of all time.

Over the years, Williams would go on to expand his musical repertoire with big band sounds in his album Swing When You’re Winning, reach out into new business ventures – including starting a football club during his time living in Los Angeles – and break records with his Close Encounters tour, for which he sold 1.6 million tickets in a single day.

He would even briefly reunite with the original members of Take That in 2010, much to the delight of fans.

Robbie Williams is letting us into his wild world with a new and highly personal Netflix documentary