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00:00THE END
00:07One, take two.
00:12Have no fear, everybody, I'm here. Thank God.
00:16Don't worry, I'm here.
00:21I always feel slightly embarrassed
00:24that I missed the off-the-rail stuff starting.
00:28I want a hat. I want a hat.
00:31They are acting.
00:33You know, no-one was looking side to side
00:37to see how everyone was.
00:39We were just going forwards.
00:44You know, we were never a band
00:45that sat there in each other's rooms
00:48and talked about how we were feeling.
00:51There was never any of that talk.
00:54Within the band, we didn't really ask those questions.
01:00I don't think any of us were capable
01:03of those kind of conversations.
01:09Asim, here they are tonight.
01:11It's Gary followed by Robbie and his booze hell.
01:14Just ask me mum if she likes my T-shirt.
01:16Your mum won't talk to you anymore now.
01:18I sort of started seeing the change in Robbie.
01:22He was kind of like jumping up and down
01:25on the stage of his bulbous eye.
01:29With all this fucking energy.
01:35But he did look like he was on something.
01:39Where are you going, Rob?
01:40Matt going on, back to the gig.
01:42Matt going on a Suzuki 800.
01:45He just didn't seem to want to be part of Take That anymore.
01:48And he was being more rebellious and more belligerent.
01:52Turn that off.
01:54Just seem to lose complete interest.
01:57And it frustrated all of us lot.
01:59I just thought it was someone who didn't give a shit about us.
02:03You know, he just don't care.
02:05That's what, that's what I put it down to.
02:08I was so depressed.
02:10And I was going back to my hotel.
02:13Downing and a bottle of neat vodka.
02:16And I just drink myself into oblivion.
02:22I'd gone.
02:24I'd physically and mentally gone.
02:41Downing.
02:46We had to start rehearsing for the biggest tour we were gonna do.
02:53As the band had matured and gone on...
02:55We just started to pick up instruments.
02:59And it was really exciting, actually.
03:04I was on bass.
03:05I was on drums.
03:07Jay's on guitar.
03:08I got on keys.
03:09Rob doing vocals.
03:10We were trying to cross a bit more into the world that Rob wanted to enter.
03:16And then Rob went to Glastonbury.
03:32And then Rob came back and he was absolutely wasted.
03:38And he went upstairs and I had a bit of a kip.
03:46I think the lack of interest was obvious.
03:49And I think that Gaz and Jay got pretty pissed off about that.
03:58I was 19, 20.
04:01And I was, you know, I was in the middle of being a raging alcoholic.
04:04It was the worst for my alcoholism at that time.
04:08Because I'd wake up and I couldn't start the day or do the day without probably downing a bottle of
04:14vodka.
04:16And then I'd go into these rehearsals the next day that I wasn't fit to do.
04:21Because my body would be full of crap.
04:23And my head would hurt.
04:26And I couldn't take in information at the best of times.
04:32I think it had to come to a meeting.
04:35The guys that, you know, we're doing this big show.
04:37We're putting everything we've got into this.
04:39You need to pick it up.
04:43Something just snapped inside my head.
04:45You know, and I went, well, then I'll leave.
04:49Jason said, well, if you're going to go, just go now then.
04:53I remember just sitting there thinking, what's happening?
04:57I stood up.
04:58Walked across the room and I got to the door.
05:01And I looked back at them and I think, we're thinking, this is it.
05:05And they looked at me.
05:07And then I walked through the door.
05:12And I thought, it'll be back tomorrow.
05:15I've seen this sort of thing before, it'll be back tomorrow.
05:20I got in the car and asked you at the time, Paul said,
05:24OK, I'll be back on Thursday to come and pick you up.
05:25And Paul, I'm not coming back on Thursday.
05:28All right, Friday then, I'll be at your house at 9.30 in the morning to come pick you up.
05:32I said, Paul, I don't think you understand. I'm not coming back.
05:36And then I started to cry.
05:45We woke up the next morning and it was some newspaper thing of Robbie had split from the band.
05:55Kind of a little bit devastating.
05:57You know, you ask yourself a lot of questions, what's going to happen now?
06:01Taylor star Robbie Williams has announced he's quitting the band.
06:04Do you teeny band take that?
06:06Robbie Williams has quit, citing too much pressure.
06:09Can they carry on without him?
06:13The message from the fans is clear.
06:15They want Robbie back and them mystified by his departure.
06:19He's been in the band since he was 16. He hasn't had his childhood. He's not been allowed to grow
06:23up.
06:23Something's happened.
06:25But I don't think we'll find out for quite a while yet.
06:29Really odd couple of days.
06:32Really odd.
06:33And it sounds quite throwaway.
06:37For what happened to be one of the most important things that ever happened to our group?
06:41Him leaving.
06:47I think if we all knew it was going to be that moment, we'd have done it.
06:52We'd have all wanted it to be different after all that time together.
06:59It's just skinless.
07:01It was sort of off the cuff and casual and...
07:06These things are never...
07:07They never happen the way you read them.
07:11It's trickier. It's more complex.
07:19It's another TV heatwave on Steve Wright's People Show!
07:27And here they are. They're Britain's biggest band.
07:30We were, you know, all so young then.
07:33Clocking on television for the first time since the big story this week.
07:36I wasn't in a place where I'd sit down with Gaz and Howard and say,
07:41Oh, you know, what should we do about this?
07:44I think the first time we were asked about how do I feel was by somebody on a TV show.
07:50To Mark from Rachel Wilson of Selly Oak, Birmingham.
07:53Do you cry? And if so, when was the last time?
07:56Erm...
08:03Yeah, we're moving then.
08:05Aww!
08:07The mere hysterical fans were rewarded with an impromptu walkabout by the four remaining members of Take That, while police
08:14struggled to keep control.
08:15It was kind of strange, really.
08:18Oh, yes!
08:20It's a bit big, innit?
08:22Because, for me, Rob was like the brother.
08:25I couldn't have imagined the band experience without him.
08:32But, er, we knew we had three weeks to do a show.
08:36That would be the orchestra there, and then from the back would be thirty-piece choirs.
08:40And that was our way through.
08:42You know, we had to learn the show again.
08:44We had to learn it for four instead of for five.
08:48Fuck.
08:49Just gotta do it.
08:50Can't cancel the show.
08:51Hey! Hey! Hey!
08:54And so, we turned the attention to ours.
08:57To getting our show ready.
09:00Take That kicked off their tour in Manchester at the weekend without Robbie Williams.
09:08Do you know what?
09:09This is our fifth tour together as Take That.
09:12But on this tour, as you can probably see, there's someone a little bit different.
09:16There's only four of us.
09:21Obviously, in the back of my mind, it was like start a solo career, be big.
09:25You know, but there was no plan.
09:28The plan was just to numb everything out, because I was in so much pain.
09:33I mean, we get to hear a lot about Robbie's side of things.
09:37Yeah, we do, don't we?
09:40Nigel.
09:41As a manager, he never managed me.
09:44He managed Gary Barlow.
09:48I only wanted him to love me.
09:50And he never did.
09:53For me, it was a sense of relief, because if someone's unhappy in the work, they're best going to work
10:00somewhere else.
10:01Hi, I'm...
10:02Robbie Williams!
10:04And I'm on the...
10:05And when Robbie left the group, he wanted to undo everything Nigel had done.
10:11Let me ask you how you feel about Nigel Martin Smith.
10:16After all these years, she had enough of saying things in interviews that weren't true.
10:22So how did you meet? I mean, are you all friends from school?
10:23No, what it was, it was a combination of two bands.
10:26He was always told of Nigel, don't ever say, you know, you was put together.
10:31I was working with Gary.
10:32I was working with Alden Nicole, doing a bit of a dance, rap act kind of thing.
10:36The manager got the two bands together.
10:37And I think, you know, I don't ask that fucking question, because I don't want to trip up and I
10:41don't want to be in trouble with Nigel.
10:42We've always been friends.
10:44And now Robbie wanted to say whatever was on his mind.
10:48I'm doing my own thing. I'm writing my own stuff. Shagbirds.
10:54He's only a million, isn't he?
10:55And so, of course, what then happens is that we're sat in this place where, oh, hang on a minute.
11:02That looks quite refreshing, where Rob is.
11:05That looks quite interesting.
11:08We're still here doing this.
11:19So it was inevitable that we wanted to get out of that world too.
11:30Everyone was a bit lethargic, weary. Rob had gone, how long can this last for?
11:38There's a rumour going round that I'll take that, I've got to split it all up to this tour.
11:44That rumour is definitely not true.
11:48Just tell me this song and I'll sing it.
11:52You'll be right and I'll start.
11:54Never want you back.
11:56I want you back again.
12:06My man.
12:07Sorry, dude.
12:09I'm just getting this shit, come on.
12:10Sorry.
12:10The future of pop group Take That is unclear.
12:14There's been much speculation about the future of the band since Robbie Williams left last year.
12:18The record label have strenuously...
12:19After months of speculation, the news that every Take That fan had been dreading.
12:24Thanks for everybody's support in the last five years.
12:27You've been absolutely fantastic to us.
12:29But unfortunately, the rumours are true.
12:32How Deep Is Your Love is going to be our last single together.
12:35And the greatest hit is going to be our last album.
12:39And from today, there's no more.
12:45We'd all taken a holiday for a few weeks.
12:49And in that holiday, Gary and Nigel had spoken.
12:53Gary said, listen, now's the time.
12:55And he gave his reasons.
12:56I want to go solo.
12:57It was me that went into a room and said to everybody,
13:00this is what we should do.
13:02And everyone just went, yeah, great.
13:05I remember thinking, thank God.
13:08We just had a 14-year-old fan phone in, in tears.
13:12What's your message to her?
13:14We're sorry, I suppose.
13:16We always said we'd finish on top.
13:18And it is very good for our careers ahead of us.
13:21So I think we're making the right music.
13:24I was holding on so tight to this group.
13:28I felt a bit of anger.
13:32We were four-piece and we were still successful.
13:34We sold out a tour.
13:35We had number ones.
13:36It's like, well, why?
13:40On the last tour, Howard said,
13:42even though Rob is left,
13:43take that I'd be going to be around for a long time.
13:46You mean you think they'd betrayed you?
13:47Well, yeah.
13:48I feel as though they've lied to us all.
13:50I feel really hurt because it's just a big part of my life
13:53and now it's over.
13:54He said to be around for as long as the fans wanted him,
13:56but the fans still want him.
13:58Just quit.
14:00Take that hysteria reaches a new level
14:02as fans collapse in front of their hotel in Germany.
14:05The screaming which has accompanied the band throughout their career
14:09is increasing in pitch as take that, prepare to wind up for good.
14:13It wasn't the same.
14:15The sparkle had gone.
14:20It was just starting to turn
14:24and it felt like the exit was the best place to be.
14:27We split up because we needed to, we wanted to.
14:30We were really happy about the decision.
14:32Sad as well because we were going to miss each other and miss the vibe.
14:36Daddadadadadadada- that's out, rpmst.
14:49ATTAIN For
14:51the last time in the world. Take
14:53that. But
15:00when you are rising in the morning sun,
15:06It wasn't hitting me when I was in that last performance.
15:10It's not the last song we're ever going to sing.
15:13I wasn't thinking that way.
15:15I was just going through the motions, really, I guess.
15:19You're in control of your own life now, starting tomorrow morning.
15:22Isn't that a bit frightening?
15:24Tomorrow we all go our separate ways, in a way.
15:27I mean, we'll still see each other, but it is a very sad time
15:29and a little bit of a numb feeling.
15:31It has been very difficult to grow up under these extreme conditions
15:34because it's an important period of your life, from, let's say, 18 to 27.
15:38I've not lost too much of what life's all about.
15:42Hopefully, anyway, I'll know tomorrow.
15:43I'll give you a bell and let you know if I'm struggling.
15:45We're living in a world of fools
15:49Breaking its time
15:52When they all should let us be
15:57We belong to you and me
16:04It's been a very emotional month for us, really.
16:07Yes.
16:07And today's the last day, the finale.
16:10The finale.
16:14There wasn't really time for us to sit down and work out,
16:21how do we do this?
16:23It was all happening in real time.
16:26Hysterical fans besieged Amsterdam's top hotel
16:29in a desperate bid to catch a final glimpse of their idols
16:33before they split up.
16:36There was something in the air on that last day.
16:44It felt real all of a sudden.
16:48Our world had come to a close
16:51and I wasn't sure.
16:54It was something that wasn't right.
16:59It hit me the hardest
17:01simply because of the fact that I was thinking,
17:02well, what am I going to do now?
17:03I'm only trained at being a pop star.
17:06You know, a bit of paint spraying.
17:09So it hit me quite hard.
17:17I was ready.
17:19I can't wait to tell people that I'm coming home.
17:25The hardest bit was trying to find their way home.
17:36You go home and you're kind of in disbelief.
17:38You're kind of a farmer.
17:40I feel like I was the only one that didn't grow up
17:44and everyone else did,
17:47even though I was the oldest.
17:48How are you feeling?
17:51Everybody watched what was happening
17:53and prepared themselves for the end,
17:56whereas I was in this dream.
17:58I was like, oh, it's going to keep going
17:59and going and going and going and going.
18:02You know, because when I was in school,
18:05I was a nobody, really.
18:07I wasn't very clever.
18:09I didn't go to university.
18:11I never, ever dreamt of being successful.
18:14Everybody be around, okay?
18:17I never thought I would be anything.
18:21And I felt like a superhero
18:24being up on that stage.
18:33I was almost going towards a depressive state.
18:39And then I decided to go to the Thames.
18:43The state of my mind at that time,
18:45I was seriously thinking of jumping in the Thames,
18:50thinking I wanted to kill myself.
18:53But I'm just too much of a shitbag to do it.
19:00My immediate plan after the band
19:02was to go off to the Lake District.
19:04I took my tent.
19:06I went camping for a couple of weeks.
19:08We're all knackered, exhausted.
19:11I just wanted to have a nice long rest
19:12and have a little think.
19:14And after that, I didn't have any plans.
19:18I think for myself, Howard and Mark,
19:21it was, take that, let's just take that.
19:22It was where we were at now, you know.
19:25I think take that to Gary and Robbie
19:27was always a stepping stone
19:28to where they wanted to get to.
19:31I always felt like I spent most of the 90s worrying.
19:36I was a real worrier.
19:39Worried about the band.
19:43Worried about us.
19:44Hey, boys, listen, let's do it for a real life.
19:47Worrying about the music.
19:50Worrying about the gig.
19:51Are you ready, boys?
19:52We're going to do this interview.
19:53But by the time we decided we would finish in,
19:57I just felt like, oh,
19:59all I've got to do is worry about me now.
20:01It just felt like a real weight off my shoulders.
20:05I was keen for a new chapter to start.
20:10At that point,
20:11I was on a massive wave of confidence.
20:17So often I just drive out to somewhere like this
20:19to get a bit of a break from it all.
20:21And I'm never bored either, being on my own.
20:24I think only boring people get bored.
20:26And this was the biggest my ego's ever been.
20:29I love being sat at the piano.
20:31You know, another way to relax when I come home
20:33is to just sit and play.
20:35I mean, you just think the world owes you everything.
20:38When you've been at that height,
20:40you just think everything you touch,
20:42everything that moves,
20:43turns to triple platinum.
20:45Today sees the release of Gary's first solo single.
20:49Robbie's comes out at the end of the month.
20:51Fans are reserving copies of both singles.
20:53But Gary's in the lead and tipped to be number one.
20:57I will buy both,
20:58but I think Gary's better.
21:00This is where the Gary Robbie stuff started.
21:09This week, the World Media Circus
21:11was summoned to his press conference.
21:13Robbie could talk about what he's up to next.
21:16Robbie, why are we here?
21:17You're interesting questions.
21:20Robbie was feeding off the press a bit.
21:22He'd become friends with some of the press.
21:24What do you think of Gary's single?
21:26I'd love to say
21:28it's not my cup of tea,
21:30but it's all right.
21:30In fact, it's awful.
21:34That's when it got nasty
21:35and it was just not needed.
21:40Would you piss on Gary if he was on fire?
21:44Oh, that'll be left between me and Gary.
21:47That's the first bit of negativity I felt.
21:50Like, serious negativity
21:52that went in the brain negativity.
21:55Robbie, which other ex-Take That Band members
21:57do you think will succeed?
21:59Jason's got a really good patron decorator, I'm sure.
22:03I don't understand it at all.
22:05I don't understand how anybody can sit there
22:07after being so close to people for so long
22:11and to say the things he does.
22:13I think it's Rob's way of staying famous.
22:16It had all become talking to one another
22:18through the press.
22:20What do you think about Gary Barlow?
22:21Because he said something yesterday
22:22that wasn't very nice.
22:23He said, Robbie hurt us,
22:24and until now, we were afraid to say,
22:25but, Robbie, you're a dickhead.
22:27Well, I am.
22:29You know, let's face it,
22:30Robbie is ten times more popular than me.
22:32He always will be on fuel.
22:34But let's hear these songs that are easy to write.
22:37I'm dying to hear them.
22:39Do you know I'm doing a cover version?
22:41Because I can.
22:42It's more of a statement than a single,
22:44to tell you the truth.
22:45Statement is, I'm free now.
22:47Just do whatever I want.
22:49It's very ironic, isn't it,
22:50that Gary says he,
22:51and has made no secret of the fact
22:52he wants to be the next George Michael,
22:53yet Robbie has chosen a George Michael cupboard.
22:56Everything that Robbie has been doing, really,
22:59has been sort of trying to railroad Gary
23:01and kind of shove him off the rails.
23:02That's when it became really competitive.
23:08New solo number one.
23:10Exclusive, the top of the props,
23:11Mr. Gary Barlow.
23:13Now my dreams are filled
23:16with times when we're together
23:24Yes, what I need from her
23:27is forever love
23:31We were both trying to do the same thing.
23:34And, you know, only one person can win.
23:38Gary went straight at number one,
23:40Robbie number two.
23:42Do you feel any pressure from that?
23:44I'm number three.
23:46As soon as we finished,
23:48we'd take that.
23:50Linda, will you ask me about my solo career?
23:54No, ask me.
23:55What? Ask me about my solo career.
23:57I just pretty much started writing straight away.
24:03And I'd written my songs on my piano at home
24:05and I was writing for myself.
24:09Rob lived in St. John's Wood
24:10and I was recording at Abbey Road
24:12so he came to visit a couple of times
24:15which was lovely.
24:18And Howard came and sang on Clementine.
24:26And Jason came to the studio
24:28and I remember I was so much wanting to impress Jay
24:33that I forgot to eat all day
24:35and then fainted.
24:39So emotionally, we were probably all a little bit.
24:42We didn't have a plan.
24:44Ladies and gentlemen,
24:46the future's bright.
24:46The future's Jason Orange!
24:50From the day I left the band,
24:52I've been thinking,
24:53what shall I do next?
24:54What am I good at?
24:55Look, you're acting now.
24:56I'm going to play, Graham,
24:57and I want you to see it.
24:59I bought some flyers, everybody.
25:00Oh, that's lovely.
25:02I started having acting lessons
25:04thinking I was going to be an actor.
25:05Look, I want to talk to you.
25:07You'll piss off right now
25:08or I'll smash your fucking face through that wall.
25:12Good night.
25:13But I didn't like it,
25:15so I stopped.
25:18You just start to question life.
25:20When you've been an ex-pop star,
25:22when you've not got a job,
25:24there's a lot of time in the day
25:25to sit around and think about things.
25:31The truth of the matter
25:33was that my album
25:35wasn't hitting the numbers.
25:37You have no need
25:39to think...
25:40I mean, the album has done very well.
25:42I knew it.
25:42But the album didn't do so well
25:43on the charts of a here, did it?
25:45We've taken that,
25:45everything went in at number one,
25:46number one, and number one,
25:47and that's what you got used to.
25:49And eventually I got dropped.
25:57You start to feel very negative about yourself.
26:07Here we are in Cuba.
26:09This is the second day of the show.
26:14Nigel looked after me after the band.
26:17Said, right, you're contracted
26:19to do a solo career.
26:21I can feel the night upon my skin
26:24and I can't...
26:26And it invigorated me again
26:27and made me hungry.
26:30I want you.
26:32But when you're on your own,
26:34you're thinking, shit,
26:35I'm exposed here.
26:37I need to love you
26:40to feel you want me to...
26:43To be honest with you,
26:45I didn't have any confidence
26:46in what I was doing.
26:49I knew deep down
26:51it wasn't for me.
26:54You have to believe in yourself 200%
26:57and that you are the dog's bollocks.
26:59And I never did.
27:02The truth is,
27:03other than Gary,
27:04we were all struggling
27:05to do it on our own,
27:07including Robbie.
27:11And, yes,
27:12welcome to Robbie Williams!
27:16Let's go straight to line four,
27:17I think.
27:18No, it's Nora Carr from Livington.
27:20Hello, Laura.
27:20You're through to Robbie.
27:21What's your question?
27:22Um, hi, Robbie.
27:23Hi.
27:23I was just wondering
27:24what your ideal Christmas present
27:25would be.
27:29Um...
27:29Number One.
27:31That would be my ideal Christmas present.
27:33Number One?
27:33Yeah.
27:34What do you think the chance
27:35they're in Number One?
27:36Zilch.
27:37Really?
27:38Oh, no.
27:39I'd been in a band
27:40that sold 20 million albums
27:42and I'd hate Number Ones
27:43and my album was doing terribly.
27:47Angels was probably my last hope
27:49of getting my foothold in
27:52on any sort of career.
27:53Go and prepare your voice
27:54and get ready with your lovely group.
27:56Your group over there.
27:56My group.
27:57Vagabond.
27:58It is a beautiful new single.
27:59Beautiful new single.
28:00It's what I was trying to say.
28:01It's called Angels.
28:01It's Robbie Williams.
28:17Angels.
28:18One of the songs
28:18that I think probably everybody
28:19has been singing
28:20in this country
28:20this year.
28:21So, please welcome
28:22Mr Robbie Williams.
28:27Angels.
28:28It's just everyone loves it.
28:30It's a lovely tune.
28:30It's a brilliant tune.
28:31Everyone loves it straight away.
28:33And there's a rather magnificent
28:35Robbie Williams.
28:39It's a great song.
28:41A great song.
28:43What are we doing?
28:55Once he had that song, that was it.
28:58Robbie Williams.
29:00It's been played at Hatches, Matches and Dispatches.
29:04Births, weddings and funerals.
29:06And that's great.
29:07As if you just get a still.
29:09My records were sort of going in,
29:11yeah, at number one.
29:13But they weren't hanging around for months.
29:16Ticket sales and records have exploded,
29:19haven't they?
29:19Yeah.
29:22That must be really hard.
29:25He was just untouchable from that moment.
29:28And I remember sat there thinking,
29:31well, that's it.
29:32I can't catch that.
29:34I mean, how am I going to do that?
29:36And the winner is...
29:38Robbie Williams.
29:40Robbie Williams.
29:41Robbie Williams.
29:41Robbie Williams.
29:43And the only way I could see
29:45was going to America.
29:47I've got to leave the country here.
29:49And so I did that.
29:50I did a nine-month radio tour.
29:54I don't know who Gary Barlow is.
29:56Ken Barlow?
29:57Who is he?
29:58Not Robbie.
29:58The other one.
29:59It started to dawn on me,
30:01nothing's happening here.
30:02And all this is happening at home
30:04because the news comes across.
30:07By this point,
30:08Robbie's now an albumin,
30:10multi-platinum,
30:11this, that and the other.
30:12I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams!
30:15Down the waterfall
30:18That ever hit me, take me
30:21I know that life won't break me
30:24I was incredibly competitive,
30:28so, yeah, I think I was jealous, yeah.
30:33You know, where Rob's got to
30:35is just too big.
30:47And I specifically remember
30:49going back to the UK
30:52and on my way
30:54to the station
30:56I got a call from RCA
30:58saying, you know,
30:59we've looked at your options
31:00and we're going to drop you
31:02as an artist.
31:05And I thought,
31:05I've now got no record deal
31:07and so I got on the train
31:09and I went to Cheshire
31:10and that was it.
31:12Gary Barlow,
31:13the man voted most likely
31:15to succeed post-take
31:16that has been ditched
31:17by his record label.
31:20When we got to the 90s
31:22and the group started,
31:23all them,
31:24all those gigs,
31:25thousands of gigs,
31:27shitty clubs,
31:29people talking
31:30all the way through your set,
31:31slowly working out
31:32how to win an audience over,
31:35learning how to write,
31:36writing songs,
31:37hundreds and hundreds of songs,
31:39the learning,
31:39the learning,
31:40the practicing,
31:41the singing,
31:42the vocal lessons,
31:43the performing,
31:44that all these things
31:45led to us walking on
31:47to the stage
31:49at Wembley Arena
31:50and I just thought,
31:51this makes sense,
31:52this does,
31:53I've done all this work,
31:55I feel great,
31:55I'm ready for this.
31:57And you carry on
31:58and you build up
31:59and you're going
31:59all over the world
32:00and I felt prepared
32:02for everything.
32:04And that was the bit
32:06I wasn't prepared for.
32:08It's like,
32:09oh,
32:10is that it?
32:12What am I going to do
32:13for the rest of my life?
32:15Because,
32:16because that's it with music now.
32:17I mean,
32:18I can't even walk down
32:20the street now
32:21without someone
32:22shouting something
32:23about Robbie to me
32:24so I don't want to do that anymore.
32:26What's Robbie's story?
32:27I'm getting massive hits
32:29and my old friends
32:30are jealous.
32:32How many companies
32:33exactly is your album sold now?
32:35Oh,
32:35just a million.
32:36Yeah!
32:37Come on!
32:38I saw the shit
32:39that Gary went through
32:41when you're a solo singer
32:42and then you stop selling,
32:44you're going to get pointed at
32:45and have the piss
32:46taken out of you.
32:47None of us can sing.
32:49Oh,
32:49don't you worry
32:50your pretty little head
32:50about that.
32:51Your job's to dance about
32:52and distract the audience
32:53from Gary's beer gut.
32:55I'm joking,
32:55of course.
32:56I'm not.
32:58Gary,
32:59it's probably best
32:59if you stand behind
33:00the keyboard.
33:02I saw it all
33:03and watched it all.
33:05Oi,
33:05have some lunch.
33:08You just,
33:10yeah,
33:11you were obsessed with it,
33:12the whole thing,
33:13you know.
33:13This is the Brits 25.
33:15When Rob went on the Brits,
33:16all those things,
33:18I watched them all.
33:19Back from Take That,
33:20please welcome
33:21Gary Barlow
33:22and Howard Donnell.
33:24Whatever you say,
33:25whatever you do,
33:27and maybe it is,
33:28what you just want to do.
33:30Back to bed,
33:31and over.
33:32Here's Robbie!
33:37Sorry, Gary.
33:40But I was always
33:41the talented member
33:42of the band.
33:44My problem's always
33:46been with Gary.
33:48My problem always was
33:50with Gary.
33:51I wanted to crush him.
33:54I wanted to crush
33:55the memory of the band,
33:57you know.
34:00And I didn't let go.
34:02Even when he was down,
34:03I didn't let go.
34:06When Rob,
34:07you know,
34:07said I was the talent,
34:08it's just,
34:09that was the shame for me.
34:11You're just like
34:11the butt of a joke.
34:13Gary Barlow was nice,
34:14he's a nice guy,
34:15but he can't sing,
34:17he can't dance,
34:17and he can't write songs.
34:20It was just
34:21so excruciating
34:23to,
34:23you just wanted
34:24to crawl into a hole.
34:26And there was
34:27a period of about
34:2813 months
34:29where I didn't
34:30leave the house once.
34:33And I'd also
34:34started to put weight on,
34:35and the more weight
34:37I put on,
34:38the less people
34:39would recognise me.
34:41I thought,
34:42well, this is good.
34:43This is what
34:43I've been waiting for,
34:44living a normal life.
34:46And so I went
34:47on this mission then.
34:48If the food passed me,
34:50I'd just eat it.
34:51And I'd killed
34:52the pop star.
34:54I would have
34:55these nights
34:56where I'd eat
34:57and eat and eat,
34:58but however
34:58I felt about myself,
35:00I felt 10 times worse
35:02the day after.
35:05And then one day
35:06I thought,
35:06do you know what?
35:07I've been out,
35:09it's 10 o'clock,
35:10I've eaten too much,
35:11I need to get rid
35:13of this food.
35:17You just go off
35:18to a dark corner
35:20of the house
35:20and just throw up,
35:22make yourself sick.
35:24And you just think
35:25it's only once,
35:26it's only once.
35:28And all of a sudden
35:29you're walking down
35:30that corridor again
35:31and again.
35:33Is this it?
35:34Is this what
35:35I'm going to be doing
35:36forever?
35:38He went through
35:39a really hard time.
35:42I think Gary
35:44was like a casualty
35:46of Robbie's success.
35:48Gary was going to be
35:49the big star,
35:49he was going to be
35:50the next George Michael.
35:52And it wasn't,
35:53it was Robbie.
35:55I just didn't like
35:56what Robbie had become.
35:59It was quite hurtful
36:01because Gary was my mate
36:02and I was obviously
36:03going to stick up for Gary.
36:07I just felt a lot
36:07of hatred towards Robbie.
36:10Maybe jealousy
36:11of his success.
36:14And the fact that
36:14he's taking the piss
36:16and getting more
36:17and more successful,
36:19it made it even worse.
36:21You want to see him
36:22fall down.
36:23You want to see him
36:23fall on their arse,
36:24you know.
36:28I went through a period
36:29where I didn't see Rob
36:30for a few years.
36:31I miss Rob
36:31not being in my life
36:32like he was then,
36:33you know.
36:35I missed him
36:35from when he left
36:36and I miss him
36:37being a close friend.
36:38I'm so excited.
36:39Oh, calm down now, Marky.
36:41Oh, no, it's just cool.
36:45Still saw him
36:46on occasion.
36:48We've got together
36:49looking now and again.
36:52At Nebworth,
36:52we got on stage together.
36:54I'm in the taste
36:55of separation
36:57You excel
36:58to be free
37:01Can't you find
37:02the little human side
37:04walk always
37:06ladies and gentlemen.
37:12It's too weird
37:13to be gentle.
37:14Dreads like me, aren't you?
37:16In 99,
37:17I had my first child
37:19which was Grace.
37:21My little girl.
37:22Which is a real
37:23whack to the head
37:24and a real wake-up call.
37:28Automatically,
37:28you start having money worries.
37:31All of a sudden
37:32my money's dwindling
37:34and I've got to look after it.
37:35I've got to go
37:35to a smaller house
37:37and reality again
37:39kicks you in the head.
37:40It's like, well,
37:42this is your life, son.
37:45You're not a pop star anymore.
37:46Hello, darling.
37:48Gary had Daniel
37:50in 2000
37:53and that was
37:54the real
37:56great thing
37:56between us
37:57that I'd go to his house
37:58and I'd take Grace.
38:02It's the last time
38:03we ever fucking invite you, lad.
38:07Oh, you're so cruel.
38:09This was when
38:10he was going through
38:10his bad period
38:12of, you know,
38:13putting on weight.
38:16What I had
38:17growing alongside me,
38:19I got married
38:20and we were having kids.
38:22Thank God
38:23there was something else to do.
38:26Half of my brain
38:27was like,
38:27Dad,
38:28looking after the kids,
38:29loving it.
38:32While the other half
38:33of your brain's thinking,
38:34well, you know,
38:35who are you now?
38:38You're waking up
38:39every day
38:40with this massive shadow.
38:43This incredible guilt.
38:46I tried to hide it
38:48from everyone.
38:48I was so ashamed of it.
38:51Then you get out of bed
38:54and you've got to go,
38:55hey, everyone.
38:57I'm going into the studio now.
38:58And Dad would go off
38:59to do his day's work
39:00and I'd literally sit in there
39:02watching the piano,
39:04thinking,
39:05I used to write
39:06big hits on that thing.
39:07Now the piano
39:08was the enemy.
39:09I'd sit in there
39:11and I'd look at the clock
39:12and I'd come out at four
39:13and go,
39:13anyway,
39:14that was a good day.
39:15And I'd act this day
39:17of being in the studio
39:19pretending I was doing something.
39:21I was doing nothing.
39:23I mean,
39:24it's awful.
39:25Awful.
39:26And it went on for years.
39:33And then one day
39:35I got a call off Nigel.
39:40And he was saying,
39:41we need a band meeting.
39:43It was like a band.
39:44I'm not in a band.
39:46I haven't been in a band
39:48for years.
39:50Sony have come to him
39:52and said
39:52they want to do
39:53like a documentary.
39:57It was the thought
39:58of seeing everybody again.
40:00I thought,
40:00I've got to do something.
40:02What can I do
40:03to break this?
40:05And I looked
40:06in this cupboard
40:06and there was
40:08a pair of our old
40:10like trainers
40:11we used to do
40:12our performances in.
40:14And I dusted them off
40:15and put them on.
40:16And I went for a run.
40:20I'd like you to look
40:20into the lens please
40:21and say,
40:21my name is Jason Orange
40:22and let's just take that
40:24for the record.
40:26That's the title.
40:28Are you having a laugh?
40:29No, seriously.
40:30Everyone else has done it.
40:35Do you know
40:35how difficult this is?
40:37Ta-da!
40:39You just think,
40:40I'm going to be
40:41a pop star
40:42for the weekend,
40:43you know.
40:44Put on the clothes
40:45that looks
40:46as pop star
40:47as possible.
40:49The suit jacket
40:50with a t-shirt underneath
40:51with a big scarf
40:52and a beanie hat
40:53and looking like
40:54I'm still wealthy.
40:56You know,
40:56it was all a bit false.
41:02I was so out of practice.
41:04Oh, God, sorry.
41:05Shit.
41:06It was an almost
41:07out-of-body experience
41:09sitting back in that chair
41:11and being lit
41:11and having a mic put on.
41:13It was so weird
41:14to do that.
41:16Uh-oh.
41:17The kids just thought
41:19it was the best thing ever.
41:20Cameras all around the house
41:21and they kept
41:22disturbing us
41:23and interrupting us.
41:25It was chaos
41:26the whole day.
41:27Is that it?
41:28Dan, you're going to...
41:30You're going to have to go out, son,
41:31if you keep trumping like that.
41:34Hi, my name's Gary Barlow.
41:38Any good?
41:40I got stoned
41:41before I went in there
41:43because I didn't know
41:44how I was going to
41:45deal with it.
41:47Mark had just done
41:48Big Brother
41:49and he was sort of
41:50getting back on the saddle a bit.
41:52Owen, you are the winner
41:55of Celebrity Big Brother.
41:58First off,
41:59why are you taking part
42:01in this film?
42:06Um...
42:07You know,
42:07going back to that time,
42:09you know,
42:10there's a bit of uncertainty
42:11about the whole thing.
42:12How's it, Howard?
42:13Say hello.
42:14Take That was about five people
42:18and...
42:18How you doing?
42:19I never really got to know
42:21everybody individually
42:22and everybody's perspective.
42:24And I think that it will do
42:25everybody a lot of good.
42:27It's been quite,
42:29you know,
42:30up and down
42:30since the band.
42:32Everyone was kind of lost.
42:35The most lost was me.
42:37I had less answers
42:39than everyone else.
42:40I think that was a shock.
42:42Well, I bet it Howard,
42:43£100,
42:44that Robbie shows up.
42:46It's like this play.
42:47Anybody know anything?
42:50We know he's not going to turn up.
42:52Guys, we asked Robbie
42:53to come tonight.
42:54They were just going on
42:55and keeping the suspense
42:56going all the way
42:57through this interview
42:58and...
42:59He's declined.
43:01It was just bullshit.
43:04I'd quite like to play
43:05the messages
43:05that he's recording for you.
43:07We definitely felt ambushed.
43:10Howard,
43:11I just sincerely apologise
43:13for any upset
43:15that I may have caused you.
43:17To Jay,
43:18I'm really sorry.
43:19We all had different feelings
43:21about Rob at that point.
43:22You know,
43:23Mark missed him,
43:24Jason missed him.
43:25I hated him.
43:29Gaz,
43:30you're an amazing songwriter.
43:32I apologise for saying
43:34that you weren't.
43:35You have an amazing voice.
43:49What would you want to say back?
43:53I think we've...
43:54Oh, I've definitely said it
43:55in my interviews.
43:57Yeah.
43:57I was carrying so,
43:59so much stuff
44:01at that point.
44:05I was, you know,
44:07really nervous initially
44:08about the whole thing.
44:09I think it was something that...
44:12Like I said,
44:13we've all worked through it
44:14and tried to put it to bed
44:15in our own way.
44:16But I don't think
44:17any of us really ever had.
44:18I mean,
44:19I don't ever see us
44:20getting back up on stage
44:21together again.
44:23We just felt, right,
44:24they're going to make
44:24this documentary
44:25and then we just move on
44:27with our own lives
44:28after that.
44:33They did the premiere
44:34in Notting Hill.
44:36They'd invited
44:36quite a lot of names.
44:39It was the first time,
44:41I think,
44:41as a band,
44:42we actually went out
44:43in public
44:44in ten years.
44:47We were all
44:48a little bit nervous
44:48for what's it going
44:49to be like
44:50and, you know,
44:51we actually said
44:51what we're doing,
44:52you know,
44:53what the hell are we doing?
44:55Big time nerd.
44:57It's quite scary.
44:59You look on the floor
45:00there's a big puddle of wee.
45:04We knew
45:05the documentary
45:06was coming out
45:07the next day
45:08but we didn't have
45:09a clue
45:09what it was going to be like.
45:13We didn't really know
45:15what reception
45:16it would have,
45:17whether anybody
45:18even cared.
45:20I mean,
45:21it could have been
45:23a disaster.
45:25To bring all five together
45:27for the first time
45:28in ten years.
45:30This is Take That
45:31for the record.
45:38I used to get the train
45:39up and down
45:40to London
45:40all the time
45:41and I had like
45:44an outfit
45:45I used to wear
45:46for the train.
45:47It was quite a big jacket
45:48that used to zip up
45:49quite high
45:50above my lip
45:51and I used to have
45:52this one grey hat.
45:54Got this text
45:55as I was getting
45:55on the train
45:56saying,
45:58congratulations,
45:58everybody.
45:59we were the most watched
46:01of any channel
46:02last night.
46:04So I thought,
46:06oh wow,
46:07that's the first
46:08like
46:10piece of career
46:12good news
46:13I've had in
46:14about six years.
46:16And I just sat there
46:18and I unzipped
46:20my coat
46:22and I just thought,
46:24I'm alright
46:24being me today.
46:25This is alright.
46:26This is nice.
46:28And then a woman
46:29come up to me
46:30and she went,
46:31oh my god,
46:33we saw the
46:34documentary last night
46:35and we were dancing
46:37and we were singing along.
46:39Oh,
46:39just wanted to tell you
46:40it was brilliant,
46:41well done.
46:43And it was just
46:45lovely,
46:46absolutely,
46:47it was like gold.
46:52We were in London
46:53together
46:54a few days later
46:56just to,
46:57you know,
46:58have a drink.
46:59And we all got
47:00pretty pissed.
47:01It was funny.
47:03It was just a funny
47:04situation
47:04talking about stuff.
47:07And Mark
47:08had this
47:09folded over
47:10piece of paper
47:11and it was from
47:14Simon Moran
47:16concert promoter.
47:18You guys
47:20as a four
47:21could go
47:22and sell
47:2330 arenas.
47:25What?
47:26No way.
47:27That's not gonna happen.
47:28We're not gonna fill that out.
47:30We sat there for a bit
47:32and we didn't really know
47:32what to say
47:33to one another.
47:34How the hell
47:35are we gonna do this,
47:36you know?
47:37And then we said,
47:38shall we ring Jay?
47:41Hey Jay,
47:42we're in this bar.
47:43We've got this
47:44crazy offer
47:45on the table here.
47:47We're all looking at it.
47:48Where are you?
47:49And he said,
47:50you're never gonna believe it.
47:51I'm 20 minutes away.
47:53Just stay there.
47:54I'm on me way.
47:56It just seemed obvious
47:57to me straight away
47:58that they were
47:58far too drunk
48:00to make sensible decisions.
48:02This
48:03conversation started
48:04of like
48:05doubts.
48:09A lot of
48:10lack of confidence.
48:13We said,
48:14could we really
48:15do this again?
48:17And we sang
48:18pray.
48:18All I do is
48:20pray.
48:21And we did the arms.
48:24That movement,
48:25the hands out,
48:26I always think that
48:27that is
48:28opening your heart.
48:31I think we'd all
48:32closed up
48:33for various reasons.
48:35And we all wanted to go
48:37and open up again.
48:39And we all went
48:40and we did the moves
48:43at the bar table,
48:44you know.
48:45And we're like,
48:46shit, can you remember it?
48:48I can't remember it.
48:49It was that up,
48:51down, up, down
48:51for about
48:52two or three hours.
48:55And it was like
48:55massive excitement.
48:57And then it was like,
48:58right, everybody,
48:59last drinks,
49:00we're kicking you out.
49:02I said,
49:03lads, my flat's
49:04round the corner,
49:04let's go round there.
49:05So we ended up
49:06going round my flat,
49:07more talking,
49:08more chatting.
49:10And we sat and
49:11chatted for about
49:12four hours.
49:14The sun was coming up.
49:15Everyone was like,
49:16well,
49:17we need to make
49:17a decision,
49:18don't we?
49:19And we all went,
49:20we've got to do it.
49:33So forgive me
49:34for the times
49:35I left you, baby.
49:39But you must understand
49:40there's a reason.
49:42And for all of those times
49:44you searched for my love
49:47and I never came in.
49:51The nights were always warm
49:53with you.
49:56Holding you right by my side.
50:00And the morning always
50:02comes to your sin.
50:05Before I even close my eyes.
50:23Now,
50:27when you're going,
50:28You're going to
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