14 DAY TRIAL // It’s hardly a shocking announcement since it was a well documented fact that Robbie Williams was working on a new solo album. Gary Barlow has just confirmed that Williams is out of Take That and the band will continue as a 4-piece.
In a new radio interview, Barlow addressed rumors of Take That taking a couple of years off and of the band members feuding again, the Daily Mail informs.
On this occasion, he confirmed that Robbie had left the band but rubbished talk of fighting, saying their time as a 5-member band “ended perfectly.”
“It was beautiful. We got on well. We finished the tour. We’re all happy. The fans have come along and been happy. Great, great, great, great, great,” the singer said of how they parted.
“Now Rob’s doing a solo record, and from this point it’s back to where it was,” he added, referring to Take That being a 4-piece again.
As for the feud that made Gary and Robbie enemies for years and kept them from speaking to each other, the former is now mature enough to take his share of the blame in it.
“It would be unfair for me to say he’s the one with the ego because I’ve got a pretty big ego as well,” he said in the same interview.
“And especially in those younger days when I was 24 and he was 20, but then you come back – I was 38 and he was 34 – and it’s like ‘Let’s talk this through’,” Gary added.
Their reconciliation saw Take That reunited in the original format after 16 years, an event that spanned a sold-out worldwide tour and the release of two hit studio materials.
However, after Barlow’s statements, a rep for the band issued another, saying that, despite the singer’s comments, the five were still together as Take That – with the single mention that, for the time being, they are on a break.