Boy band’s Robbie dilemma
Take That fans may need a little patience if they’re expecting a reunion with former band member and now solo pop superstar Robbie Williams. The British boy band, who got back together last year, revealed in an exclusive chat with The Sunday Mail in Brisbane yesterday that they don’t see eye to eye on a reconciliation. Jason Orange, 36, said he had “high hopes” and asked Robbie about a reunion “all the time”.
“I really want him to,” Orange said. “I think it would be good for him, for us and for Take That.” But co-band member Howard Donald, 38, said: “I think it could be a big mistake. We don’t know Robbie. Even though Jason calls him or Gary (Barlow) might email him, we don’t know him, we really don’t.” Reunion disputes aside, the band – Barlow, Donald, Orange and Mark Owen – have had a storming return to the charts. On the same day they won a Best Single Brit Award for their hit Patience, Williams was admitted to rehab. While his solo album Rudebox flounders on the charts, Take That sold out a UK tour in minutes. On a promotional tour to support their UK No. 1 album Beautiful World, the boys performed at a VIP B105 party at Movie World on the Gold Coast last night. They will sign copies of their album at the Queen Street Mall upper stage today.
Now in their mid-30s and three of them fathers, they admitted their return to the pop scene was less hyped than in their heyday. Just four fans were waiting at Sydney airport when they arrived last week.
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