Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Funnyman Robert’s just the job for BGT
BRITAIN’S Got Talent hopeful Robert White may have won over the show’s judges but the comic hasn’t always had such luck impressing employers.
The 41-year-old, who wowed the audience with his stand-up routine on Saturday’s show, admitted he has been sacked from scores of jobs and blamed it on his personality.
Robert said: “I constantly got fired from jobs – 36 in under seven years. Everything from telesales through to music teaching. Most people thought I was odd.”
He was once sacked for donning a face mask of Noughties pop hunk Gareth Gates during a prank at a call centre.
Robert added: “There was this list of things you couldn’t do in the call centre and it was so specific that I noticed it did not state that you could not answer the phone wearing a Gareth Gates mask. So I put on a Gareth Gates mask and got fired.”
Robert, from West Sussex, gently mocked the judges with his own song about working in a computer shop, including saying David Walliams bought him a ring binder but “all the contacts were from Grindr”.
The funnyman also said he could never dress like Amanda Holden “cos I don’t shop in Primark”.
This week it emerged that when Robert was 19 he got three months in prison for attempting to threaten an ex with an imitation firearm when he showed up at her work wearing a ballgown and holding a music stand.
He claims it was a joke but police failed to see the funny side.