Slan when you’re winnin’
Robbie Williams is learning Cockney rhyming slang – because he wants to play an East End gangster in a film. He is studying old TV tapes of Minder and Only Fools And Horses in preparation.
The pop superstar wants to ditch his Stoke-on-Trent accent to play an ex-boxer turned East London “Mr Big”. A source said: “Robbie read about the character in a book called Till Death Us Do Part and it blew him away. “But he knows he has got to sound like a Cockney if he wants the part.” Robbie, 32, whose hit albums include Swing When You’re Winning, hopes Madonna’s husband Guy “Lock, Stock” Ritchie will direct and has sent him the book. Here are some useful phrases for Robbie:
“You think you’re a La Di Dah but you’ll end up brown bread.” (“You think you’re a star but you’ll end up dead”). “I’ve got lots of Bugs Bunny.” (“I’ve got loads of money.”)
Garry Johnson / people.co.uk