When Robbie hit rock bottom: Williams' 25 years of hits and struggles

Robbie Williams waited until he had shut the front door of his mum's house before he burst into tears; he told his worried mother Jan he had lost his job with Take That. After five years, he was out of Britain's biggest boy band. Bizarrely, all he had taken with him when he left the rehearsal room at the Cheshire Territorial Army Barracks in Stockport, where the band was preparing for its latest tour, was a melon, snatched from a fruit bowl. The venue was fitting: it had been a court martial.