Babylon star Margot Robbie and her father Doug are in a relationship, says her uncle
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EXCLUSIVE: Margot Robbie’s Uncle Sets The Record Straight About Hollywood Star’s Alleged Feud With Estranged Father: ‘They DO Have A Relationship’
- Wayne Robbie is the brother of Margot’s father, Doug.
- Gold Coast-based real estate agent says the couple are in regular contact
- Doug and Margot’s mother separated when Margot was a little girl
- The Robbie family ‘immensely proud of the actress’
The uncle of Hollywood superstar Margot Robbie has set the record straight about the actress’s relationship with her allegedly estranged father.
Wayne Robbie, who operates a large real estate firm on the Gold Coast, denied recent reports that his brother, Doug, has never been in a relationship with Margot and that they are on bad terms.
“That has never been the case,” Wayne told Daily Mail Australia.
‘He certainly has a relationship with her. He is very proud of her.
Wayne also confirmed that his brother, a retired sugarcane farmer and property developer who now resides in Airlie Beach, recently traveled to Sydney to see Margot when she was in town for the premiere of her new film, Babylon.
Margot Robbie at the recent Babylon premiere in Sydney. Her uncle, Wayne Robbie, says her father is not separated from the famous actress despite reports.
It comes several years after reports began circulating that the Wolf of Wall Street star, born and raised by his mother Sarie Kessler on the Gold Coast, had cut off all contact with his father.
Speaking to The Sun UK in 2016, Margot acknowledged that her contact with her father was limited, adding: “I’m not like him at all.”
It was revealed at the time that her younger brother, Lachlan, or Lockie, remained close to their father, however two other siblings, Anya and Cameron, supposedly shared a similar relationship to Margot.
It is understood that Doug separated from Sarie when the children were young, leaving the single mother to raise four children on her own on the Gold Coast.
Doug Robbie, a retired sugarcane farmer and real estate developer now living in Airlie Beach, pictured with his son Lachie
The four attended the exclusive private Somerset College before Margot found fame and fortune in Hollywood, where she is now on her way to earning her second Academy Award nomination for Babylon.
Wayne said his niece’s career has been a great source of pride for the Robbie clan, most of whom remain on the Gold Coast.
‘It’s Margot’s life and we don’t get involved in giving feedback. But we are very proud of Margot and all that she has achieved,’ she told Daily Mail Australia.
“We just have a little bit of politics about speaking to the media, that’s something that’s really up to her if she wants to say something publicly.”
But we are proud of her. And Doug is exactly the same. He’s been there with the opening of the movie and I know they have a relationship.
‘Doug has been retired for a long time. But he is in contact with Margot and all the children.
Margot pictured with her mother, Sarie Kessler, at the Babylon premiere in Los Angeles.
Fiercely loyal to her mother, Margot, 32, regularly speaks about their close relationship and has said that any children she has will be raised on the Gold Coast to be close to their grandmother.
The couple recently walked the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of Babylon, where reporters compared Sarie, a retired physical therapist, to Margot’s sister thanks to her strikingly youthful appearance.
Margot, who missed out on an Oscar nomination this year for her work on Babylon, used her first big paycheck to repay her mother for money she had given her to help build her career when she was starting out.
I spent it paying you back, Mom. You do not remember? She was so in debt at the end of grade 12,’ she said in a 2019 Vogue interview.
“I had everything I owed you written on a piece of paper, and every time I got a paycheck I paid my debt, but then I kept the piece of paper because in the end it was very satisfying to know that I had paid it.” everyone back.’