Remember Scott Robinson aka “the hot one” from that boy band 5ive? Well, at least that’s what I thought that’s what people knew him as.
Apparently – the operative word here being “apparently” here – this is brand new information to the UK pop star and look, I’m not so sure about that mister.
Please, read the interview below and tell me if you think the boyfriend of our childhood is having a laugh – surely, with those baby blues and black spiky hair getting him through the 90s, he’s gotta be.
Other interview areas of interest include but are not limited to: his frankly sickening haircare routine (his words, not mine), the band’s upcoming Aussie tour and fans gifting him frogs in crisps (chip) packets. You know, the important stuff.
PEDESTRIAN.TV: Scott, hello! How did it feel to be known as the “the hot one” for those who didn’t know your names?
Scott Robinson: I didn’t know that.
P.TV: Oh come on.
SR: No I genuinely… that is new news to me, so I’ll take that and I’ll wear the badge with pride.
P.TV: Who else would it have been?
SR: Rich, maybe? I was always the one with the spiky hair, that’s literally who I thought I was.
P.TV: Let’s talk about that hair actually – so much wax.
SR: It was a lot of Dax Wax. It was one of those hairstyles that I don’t think I would’ve gotten away with, not being in a band and just having that hair in everyday life. I think it would’ve been frowned upon like, ‘What is this mental spiky hair that you’ve got?’
So I always wanted to do it, and I used the band as a platform to have that hair. I remember getting into the band and thinking, ‘I’m going to do my hair like I’ve always wanted to do.’ I’ve actually not got the spiky hair anymore – I’m having a midlife crisis – and I’ve got a man bun.
P.TV: How modern of you.
SM: You know what? It’s my midlife crisis and I’m just owning it. It’s my final goodbye to my hair, if that makes any sense. I know that in – I don’t know how many years time – my hair is going to give up on me and I’m going to go bald, because I’m a man. So until that happens, I’ve got a man bun, and I tie it up like a little girl.
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P.TV: What was your haircare routine with the spikes? Surely you had to wash it every day?
SR: Do you know what? It was the opposite of a hair care routine. It needed to be done every day. It lasted three days and what would happen – you don’t understand how much wax was in that hair, we’re talking a sickening amount of wax – but literally, I would sleep with the wax in and I’d wake up in the morning and I’d only have to adjust the back.
Because obviously, it’d flattened – I know that sounds literally ridiculous – so I would just put more wax in the back and go again. It was disgusting – I don’t think it was very hygienic, would you say. It looked great but there was no hygiene working for me.
P.TV: Christ. Did it have any long-lasting effects on your hair today?
SR: Well, a little bit. I don’t want to say that it was the spikes that have done it but my hair’s what you would say, a little bit brittle. It breaks a little bit easy, so makes the man bun a little hard to maintain.
P.TV: So you’re one of the three remaining Five members. Has it been a mission to get everyone back together over the years?
SR: Only in terms of, the other two don’t want to do what we’re doing, so we’ve kind of decided that doesn’t really matter. You know what? It’s actually added a dimension to what we do, because obviously different people are doing different parts now.
Yes, we’ve got a bit of a name issue – there’s three of us and we’re called Five. But Take That are three dudes now, they’re obviously still going strong and enjoying a very, very successful career. Until people literally don’t want to hear it anymore, we will still carry on singing those songs.
P.TV: How do you think the pop groups of today stack up to the pop groups of the late 90s?
SR: The fact that we’re still going strong and we got together in ’97, I think we’re a testament to the 90s, really. I can’t really answer these questions until these bands now, whether they’re still doing it 20 years after they started. I’ve got a feeling that they won’t be, though.
P.TV: Why’s that?
SR: I just think that 90s music was just, better. It’s happy, go-lucky – it’s what people wanna listen to.
P.TV: Well, I guess you and your wife Kerry have been together since early on in the piece. Was this ever hard on the relationship with all of the fans?
SR: It was brilliant actually, to have Kerry all the way through really grounded me and kept me completely normal and sane and I didn’t get carried away and think that I was something that I wasn’t. It was actually really good, no problems at all.
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P.TV: What was the craziest thing a fan ever did for you?
SR: Once in the UK, there were fans outside the record label and someone gave me a crisps packet with a frog in it, which was weird. So there was a frog in a crisp packet.
P.TV: What the fuck. Why?
SR: I had no clue. She just said she was bored so thought she’d collect a frog.
P.TV: OK.
SR: We were also somewhere in South America and when we got off the plane, we were given loads of presents, and people from the record company gathered all the presents up and they put them in a big bag on the tour bus for us to open or whatever.
We hadn’t gotten around to opening these presents yet and one of them was moving, and we were like, ‘That’s weird. Suppose we better open this present.’ And, um, it was a hamster.
P.TV: What?
SR: A live hampster. Just in a box. Wrapped up in a box. Which, as you can imagine. was mental. What made it more mental was that we named that hamster.
P.TV: Hell. What’d you name it?
SR: We named it Arthur P Skegnetti.
P.TV: Skeg what now?
SR: Skegnetti. I’m not sure where the name comes from but that’s what the hamster was called. I don’t know what happened to it, but I hope he’s alive and well.
So yeah, lots of weird presents, but lots of amazing presents as well. I remember going to airports in China and people would give me like, DVD players and really expensive electrical items.
P.TV: You’re coming to Australia next Feb to tour Five’s hits which will surely be a trip down memory lane. Does it ever get old singing songs from 20+ years ago?
SR: You know what? It doesn’t. You’d think it would because we’ve doing it for so long but I suppose the crowds keep us going. Obviously if we were doing the same thing for the same people all of the time, then maybe it’d be like, oh it’s the same show, but it’s just fantastic that they still want to hear these songs after all this time.
P.TV: Are concert-goers still treated to the iconic boy band choreography?
SR: ABSOLUTELY. We had some pretty good dance routines back in the day and we are still doing them. It’s good. We enjoy still giving a good show and being energetic and everything so yeah, it’s great.
P.TV: Are they the OG dance moves from the music videos?
They certainly are. You would’ve thought they’d have been adapted – and we did think about adapting them, we thought ‘wow, we’re not as young as we used to be’ but no, we are still doing the moves.
P.TV: Do you still see some of the OG fans at your more recent shows?
SR: Yep. We actually know their names now, they’ve been there for that long – but they’re called ‘The Hardcores’ because they’ve been there literally through thick and thin.
The difference now is, they bring their kids, and they’ve got husbands and they’ve got jobs – so they’ve got lives. The reason I think things still work for us and go in our favour is because, when they’re coming to watch our shows they’re remembering a time when they didn’t have responsibilities, they’re remembering a time where everything was just easy. And they love it. And so do we.
P.TV. Well that’s beautiful. Thanks so much for the chat.
SR: It was lovely talking to you.
