Robbie: My last BIG vice - News of the World

HE managed to quit booze, drugs and raunchy sex sessions, but today ROBBIE WILLIAMS finally discusses his biggest vice . . . FOOD.

As he launches his comeback single, appropriately called Bodies, Robbie tells how he ballooned after his shock decision to RETIRE.
Speaking eXSclusively for the first time about his battle with the bulge after he quit Britain, the Robster says: "I had burnt out. I was completely burnt out.
"That was it. I decided, I'm retiring. I didn't say it but I thought it. I thought, 'I'm going to go off and do something else'.
"I thought it would present itself to me. It would be a proper job. It would be humanitarian."
Sadly Robbie's "humanitarian" didn't involve anything as noble as feeding solving Third World debt or feeding the starving Africa.
In fact the Robster seemed to go out of his way to deprive the starving millions of any spare food that might have gone their way.
He admits: "I just sat on my a*** and ATE. I was waiting on the sofa for something to happen and I wasn't very pro-active about searching for this other job."
Eventually, shocked by his rapidly expanding waistline, he decided something had to change.
"Nothing came along and then the album presented itself," Robbie recalls. "I'd got enough sleep and I was ready to come back and go, 'Hey what do you think of this?' "
Now it's a case of Sing When You're Slimming, although that doesn't mean food isn't still his greatest tempation (I know how he feels). Rob says he'd even choose FOOD over SEX. "If the world was going to end in three months I would gorge myself," he laughs.
"So many times women get the man of their dreams, they get the ring on and eats lots of food and get massive. And I'm reversing the roles. That's what I'm going to do when this album's over."
Rob says that after a string of disastrous relationships, he's finally found happiness with girlfriend Ayda Field. "It was time she entered my life," he says.
And he vows he'd never again put his career above his relationship with his 30-year-old missus.
He says: "Career or love? Fortunately it's not a choice I have to make but, yeah, if I had to I'd go be in a tent with Ayda somewhere in the jungle."