Weight a minute.. he’s hired a personal chef
Far be it frommefromme to question Robbie Williams’ suitability as a dieting guru…
But I’m not sure hiring a personal chef is feasible for the Weight Watchers (now known as WW) clients he’s meant to inspire.
Isn’t the whole point that members learn to cook healthy meals for themselves?
Lucky Robbie has appointed a nutritionist to make grub from the Freestyle Plan and he’s boasting about how well it’s going: “This is f****** great. I’m doing this. So that is one week done.”
Week two: Get yourself into the kitchen and start doing it yourself.
Actually, maybe smoother. And, unlike me, he hasn’t recently had a painful brow-and-moustache threading treatment.
Many of his mates have long since sprouted facial hair. A couple signed up for Movember, proudly allowing their bumfluff to go untrimmed. Some even claim to be cultivating trendy beards. Now that’s just showing off.
Thankfully, my boy remains reasonably relaxed about this. It will happen when it happens.
And there’s nothing surer than it will happen – testosterone and hormones will see to that.
Facial hair is a physiological response and no reflection at all of his masculinity. That will be defined by many other things.
The first shave may be a rite of passage for a maturing male but what matters much more than the growth on his chin is the kind of man he grows up to be.
So it’s interesting that, at this very time, shaving company Gillette have launched an advertising campaign promoting positive male role models, a campaign which changes its well-known slogan “The best a man can get” into a far more enlightened “The best a man can be”.
For those yet to see the We Believe advert (and it’s actually worth a watch), central to the film are young boys who are watching or witnessing how older males behave in certain situations.
There are glimpses of a businesswoman being belittled in the boardroom, a woman being cat-called in the street, bikini-clad girls being harassed at a party.
Gillette even reference their own sexist past with a flash of one of their older adverts, the usual macho stuff of a female smooching over a clean-shaven male face. “Bullying, the MeToo movement against sexual harassment, toxic masculinity – is this the best a man can get?”
Cue roars of husky outrage and furious beating of manly chests. To a certain type of male, the type you’d certainly de-friend on Facebook and possibly cross the street to avoid, this advert is an insult to men.
It is “hellbent on destroying males”, they say; portrays them as molesters and abusers; and is contributing to “pussification” (what have cats got do with it?). Boycott