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Privacy NoticeRobert Glenister stars in a brand-new Channel 5 thriller Night Caller that begins on Sunday, 7 July. But in recent years, Robert has hit the headlines over other news – a huge, unpaid tax bill. In 2019, Robert lost a nine-year battle over unpaid National Insurance contributions. He owed the HMRC £147,000 plus interest. At the time, he told The Mail on Sunday: “We have had the judgement now so… I am going to get a brown envelope fairly soon. “I have got two options – either I sell my house or I remortgage my house. I don’t want to sell it because I am 60 next year and the only other alternative is to have a significant mortgage hanging around my neck until I am well into my 70s.”
Robert stars in Channel 5’s The Night Caller
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Talking to The Telegraph in June this year, Robert confessed he had to remortgage to pay off the debts. “Thanks to Hustle, I got called ‘TV’s conman’ and ‘the tax dodger’ in the press. It got to me a bit. Because I hadn’t done anything wrong.” He had to remortgage the house he shares with his second wife, radio producer Celia de Wolff, to pay it. “To be honest I think we will have to sell it in a couple of years. Because I simply can’t afford to pay it off. I don’t mind if HMRC wants to change the law – but just tell people when you do it and don’t make it retrospective. It’s not fair.”
Robert plays taxi driver Tony in the thriller
In The Night Caller, Robert plays former science teacher Tony Conroy who now works the night shift as a taxi driver in Liverpool. Living a solitary life he drifts through the monotony of picking up and dropping off passengers night in and night out. After an uncomfortable conversation with a former colleague, Tony feels a desperate need to talk to someone and decides to call late-night radio show NightTalk. Tony vents to DJ Lawrence Brightway (Sean Pertwee), and also strikes up a relationship with cafe-worker Rosa (Suzanne Packer). However Tony starts getting obsessed with Lawrence and things take a sinister turn. On why he decided to take the job, Robert revealed he was intrigued by Tony, a man who has suffered a major trauma that no one else knows about.
The Night Caller will play over four nights
Robert also described the job as daunting because his character appears in every scene. He also teases that the series doesn’t turn out the way the audience will be expecting it to. The Night Caller begins on Sunday 7 July, at 9pm on Channel 5Story SavedYou can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnIn the News
