She's the one! Robbie Williams confirms he and wife Ayda Field are expecting a girl

She's the one! Robbie Williams confirms he and wife Ayda Field are expecting a girl

Robbie Williams has confirmed he is expecting a baby daughter with wife Ayda Field.

And he’s gonna make sure she learns karate and boxing to keep bad boys (like Rob) away.

The 38-year-old Angels singer said: “It’s a girl. I’m very, very excited about becoming a daddy. I can’t wait. The missus is, like, ‘Don’t go telling’ and I said ‘I won’t’.”

Chatting alongside pal Jonathan Wilkes at a Soccer Six event, he continues: “I’m going to teach her football and karate and boxing.

"That’s the first thing she’s going to learn to keep people like me and Johnny away.”

I don’t think even a self-defence expert would have deterred Rob in his heyday.

Proud dad-to-be Robbie added: “My life is amazing right now. It’s fantastic, you know.”

While Ayda, 33, is expecting the couple’s first born, both Gary Barlow and Mark Owen are expecting new nippers soon, too.

Gary, meanwhile, has been supporting pr ojects around the Diamond Jubilee next month along with a range of other charity work.

Robbie said: “Gary Barlow’s sailing straight to a knighthood. You can just tell, can’t you?

"Well, at some point people have got to look at this and see what I’ve done and say, oh yeah.

"He’s gonna get it. It’ll be Sir Gaz before Sir Robbie. Subconsciously it’s a bit of a competition.”

Excited: Robbie and Ayda can start painting the baby's room pink

And he spoke about how his work with Soccer Aid to support Unicef had changed his own perceptions when it comes to youngsters.

“It’s the vulnerability of the kids, really,” he says.

“It makes you feel very lucky to have the life we do. Becoming a dad-to-be has changed my perception.

"I didn’t realise it was going to until it did. It’s overwhelming.

“We watched a video about what Unicef does and I felt myself tearing up, in a way I wouldn’t have done in the past.

“It definitely pulls on the heart-strings even greater now that I know I’ve got thi s responsibility.”

Sunday’s match at Manchester United’s Old Trafford will also star JLS, Olly Murs and Gordon Ramsay.

Playing for England will be: John Bishop, Marvin Humes, Jason Isaacs, Paddy McGuinness, Aston Merrygold, Olly Murs, Mark Owen, Ben Shephard, Jamie Theakston and Jonathan Wilkes with Robbie Williams as Captain.

They will be joined by football legends Graeme Le Saux, Martin Keown, Kevin Phillips, David Seaman, Teddy Sheringham and Des Walker.

Sam Allardyce will be the Manager with Peter Reid as Assistant Manager and Bradley Walsh as Coach.

Playing for Rest of the World will be: Gerard Butler, Joe Calzaghe, Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, Patrick Kielty, James McAvoy, Mike Myers, Ed Norton, Sergio Pizzorno and Gordon Ramsay with Martin Sheen as Captain.

They will be joined by football legends Hernan Crespo, Roy Keane, Clarence Seedorf, Jaap Stam, Edwin Van Der Sar and Freddie Ljunberg.

Kenny Dalglish will be th e Manager with Ian Rush as Assistant Manager and Eric Harrison as Coach.

* TICKETS for Soccer Aid are available from Unicef. Call 0161 444 2012 or visit itv.com/socceraid â€" the match is shown live on ITV1 this Sunday at 6pm.