Robbie Williams has talked about love, his comeback, ghosts, go-karting in his back garden and life in Wiltshire.

Stoke-born Robbie, who lives in Compton Bassett, near Calne, after moving over from Los Angeles this year, told showbiz reporter Jo Parkerson: “I’ve been in the countryside and I’ve been in Swindon.

“It’s lovely down there and the people have been great with us.

“I’ve been walking the dogs and I’ve also got a racing track in the garden.

“I’ve got these things called rage buggies. They’re like go-karts for grown-ups.

“I’ve got my own track.”

Robbie said his country pad, which cost him £7m, was reputed to once belong to Katherine Parr, the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII.

Robbie was talking in an interview with Wiltshire’s Heart FM broadcast today, the 35-year-old gave a candid talk on his life in this neck of the woods.

“It’s Katherine’s Parr old house. In fact, we’re actually not in the old house, we’re in her barn,” he said.

When asked if there were ghosts, Robbie said: “I think there are. Haven’t seen or heard anything. Felt something but it’s not scary. It’s not scary – I’m very, very pleased to say.

“I can’t even believe that a 35-year old me has bought a 500-year old place because as a 26 or 27-year-old there’s no way that I would have chosen to be there or go anywhere near it. But it’s lovely.”

Robbie, whose best friend is Wootton Bassett resident Jonathan Wilkes, caused quite a stir in Old Town in January.

He was snapped by Swindon Advertiser photographer Stuart Harrison leaving the Red Planet Bikes, in Wood Street, wearing a black balaclava, shades and jacket.

Meanwhile, Wilkes has also firmly put down his roots in Wiltshire, close to his friend, by marrying his Swindon-born wife Nikki. They are to set up a performing arts centre later this month, called the Wilkes Academy, at Lethbridge School, in Old Town.

When Robbie was asked by Heart FM if he would marry his girlfriend Ida and if she was “the one for life” he responded: “I don’t see why not.

“Yeah, I don’t see why not. She’s wonderful.”

The former Take That star also said he was excited by the prospect of teaming up with his old band members. “I don’t know in what capacity and what medium and how many times and whatever, I really don’t know,” he said.

“Every time I’ve been with them it’s the most I’ve laughed all year and I want to have a laugh.”

Robbie’s new single Reality Killed The Video Star is released on Monday, November 9. The interview will be broadcast by Heart FM on their breakfast show between 6am and 10am and during Drive between 4pm and 7pm.