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A unique profile of British pop superstar Robbie Williams. It took a year and a half to get permission to film the lavish dance sequence on London’s Regent Street over four nights, as it is actually owned by the British royal family. Two nights before filming, after a full week of rehearsals in a studio where it was taped on the street, Queen Elizabeth II died and filming had to be postponed. Everyone had to be paid anyway, including the shops and the crew, and the production insurance did not cover the losses due to the monarch’s death, so the producers had to raise additional funds to film the sequence, which was filmed five months later. The title character, Robbie Williams, is portrayed as a chimpanzee. Robbie Williams is not actually a chimpanzee.