MINI: ROBBIE WILLIAMS Interview
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Christian O'Connell chats with Robbie Williams about life's ups and downs. They start with a funny story about Christian doing shoulder exercises on live TV, which leads to a conversation about the challenges of getting older. Robbie shares his own experiences with back and joint issues, and they commiserate about the struggles of middle age. The conversation takes a heartwarming turn as they discuss being parents and how their own childhoods compare to their kids' lives today. With humor and honesty, they explore the pros and cons of growing up in the 80s and 90s versus raising their own children in the modern era.
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| 0:00.0 | IHart Podcasts. You can hear more Gold 104.3 podcast, playlist and listen live on the free IHart app. |
| 0:09.2 | Got anything good? |
| 0:11.1 | Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | All right, so we begin this chat. When you're doing these interviews, you're in a waiting |
| 0:23.7 | room for them to finish doing the most previous interview. So we were waiting about half an hour, |
| 0:28.1 | 40 minutes. It was all running late. Then when Robbie was there, there was a load of technical |
| 0:32.5 | problems. So trying to keep my call, I suddenly realized I hadn't been, I hadn't done that morning, my shoulder exercises. |
| 0:40.3 | So I'm in the studio, I'm on camera, I'm filling time, waiting for Robbie to be available. |
| 0:44.9 | And I'm using the time to do these shoulder exercises. |
| 0:47.8 | And I suddenly realized that actually he's been watching me for about 30 seconds. |
| 0:52.7 | Why am I saying all this? |
| 0:53.8 | Because it begins in a strange way. |
| 0:57.8 | Hello. Hello. Oh, sorry, I didn't know. Robbie, this is Christian. Hi, Christian. Nice to speak to me. |
| 1:05.0 | Sorry, can I just explain what I was doing then? I was doing some shoulder stretching because I've hurt my shoulder and I'm in my 50s. |
| 1:12.2 | So I was supposed to be doing these exercises and I was just doing them. |
| 1:14.7 | I just want to explain why I was doing that. |
| 1:17.8 | There's always something going on for the middle-aged man. |
| 1:21.9 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:23.0 | What are your ailments? |
| 1:25.0 | I was on holiday with my family last year and we walked past one of those outdoor gyms, and my two daughters go, what are those? And it was like parallel bars, you know, the people used to do dips on. And I said, oh, I used to do better to do like 20 or 30 of those. And they went to the 90 degree angle and completely ripped it up. Yeah, that's exactly what happened. No, Robbie, on the second one. |
| 1:45.7 | And my daughters are 19 and 21. |
| 1:48.3 | They were laughing, so I was my wife. |
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