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Evening Standard
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Lisa McLoughlin

Robbie Williams reveals he contracted ‘a 17th-century pirate disease’ as he shares health update

Robbie Williams has revealed he was diagnosed with scurvy after rapid weight loss caused by taking an appetite suppressant — describing the condition as a “17th-century pirate disease.”

The 51-year-old singer explained he shed two stone while on the medication, which he compared to Ozempic, a drug originally used to treat type 2 diabetes but increasingly linked to celebrity weight loss.

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