{"id":676834,"date":"2026-07-06T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T14:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676834\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T14:47:09","slug":"robbie-williams-among-stars-at-jcbs-staffordshire-birthday-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676834\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbie Williams among stars at JCB&#8217;s Staffordshire birthday bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robbie Williams, Alex James and Paddy McGuinness helped digger-maker JCB celebrate its 80th birthday at a festival attended by more than 23,000 employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The event at the weekend, held at Wootton Estate near the firm&#8217;s headquarters in Rocester, Staffordshire, was hosted by McGuinness, with Blur&#8217;s James performing on Saturday and Williams closing out the show on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Taylor Swift, Abba, Take That and Oasis tribute acts were also among the entertainment, along with choir The D-Day Darlings, who were finalists in 2018&#8217;s series of Britain&#8217;s Got Talent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As part of his performance, Stoke-on-Trent-born Williams serenaded attendee Jules Taylor during his rendition of She&#8217;s The One.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Taylor, the wife of JCB Finance sales director Nick Taylor, said: &#8220;It was absolutely amazing &#8211; my legs were shaking. I&#8217;m a huge Robbie fan. I think he&#8217;s an amazing showman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I shouted to Nick to get the camera ready when he came near. I felt starstruck. What an absolutely brilliant day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robbie Williams, Alex James and Paddy McGuinness helped digger-maker JCB celebrate its 80th birthday at a festival attended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-676834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}