Posted January 21, 200916 yr From http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...icle2157585.ece TAKE THAT have confessed their guilt at failing to notice the warning signs as the wheels fell off ROBBIE WILLIAMS’ life. But they are ready to make it up to their troubled former bandmate — and have repeated their plea for Robbie to rejoin them. GARY BARLOW has admitted there was “a series of events we should have spotted” as Robbie went off the rails before quitting the band in 1995. He added: “That’s my one regret. I missed the signs. I think we all did.” And the lads have given their frankest ever account of the depths Robbie plunged to as he launched into a battle with booze and drugs that would end in rehab and exile in Los Angeles. Addictive HOWARD DONALD revealed: “I spoke to Rob about it last summer. I said I was sorry I never took the time to notice he was drinking a bottle of vodka a day. “We smoked weed and giggled like idiots. Before Take That I dabbled with drugs, watching Sasha DJ in Ashton-under-Lyne. LSD mainly. I feel quite proud now I don’t take drugs and hardly drink. “But Robbie was different. He has a more addictive personality, maybe, and he was unhappy.” MARK OWEN chipped in: “Sometimes we’d joke and say we wanted to be in OASIS. But he actually did want to be in Oasis. I feel a bit guilty now that I wasn’t mature enough to hear his cries.” Gary added: “Rob would go to Dublin or somewhere and get off his head. Then he’d come home and say: ‘I haven’t slept for two days.’ “He didn’t want to go home and face his mum so he’d come to me first. He’s one of us still, so I feel sorry for him and my natural instinct is to help him. His life could be better.” As revealed in The Sun last year, the band are now ready to welcome Robbie back. Mark wanted him to sing on Happy Ending, a track planned for current album The Circus, but the others rejected the idea of including the song on the CD. However Jason said: “The Happy Ending track was a good opportunity. “Let’s get him back as quickly as possible.” Howard reckons Robbie will reunite with the band, saying: “I think it will happen one day.” And even Gary — Robbie’s biggest rival over the years — is warming to the idea. However not just for a gig on this year’s tour, but to be totally involved. He said: “I don’t think the way for him to come back would be the stage shows. If I wanted Rob to do something again it would be on a creative level.” And I’m sure they would all keep a better eye on him this time. JAMES CORDEN hopes Robbie doesn’t rejoin Take That — because he wants to. The Brit Awards host confessed he has been a huge fan since he was a lad and would love to sing with them. <_<
January 22, 200916 yr Ouch!! The're finally ready to take poor Robbie back! What on earth makes them think he even wants to come back! It would be foolish imo. I'm sure they didn't miss the so called signs, think it was more something like..........stay away from that little troublemaker.
January 22, 200916 yr Take That on sex, suicide and Robbie's UFOs by ANDREI HARMSWORTH - Thursday, January 22, 2009 The Metro They're the biggest man band on the planet with 11 No.1 singles to their name, but now Take That have lifted the lid on another side of their success story, their top hits between the sheets. In their most telling interview to-date, family man Gary Barlow insists it was he who was the the group's champion puller in their early days. 'In Amsterdam I slept with a fan. A chubby Dutch girl. And carried on from there,' shocks Barlow. The dad of three, tells Q magazine he shed his Mr Sensible attitude in 1992 and racked up the bed notches. 'On a scale of one to 10 I did alright. I didn't go out looking for it every night. It lands on your doorstep. Every time we went away for two or three weeks I'd have a little run of relationships on the way.' I Amsterdam I slept with a fan. A chubby Dutch girl. And carried on from there Meanwhile, the last singleton in the group Jason Orange blames religion for holding him back. 'I was brought up a Mormon until I was 15. There's supposed to be no sex before marriage. You're supposed to be modest about your sexuality. There were times when we were being overtly sexual onstage and I'd think "Is this right?"' tells Orange, 38. Howard Donald, 40, says the boys were wrong to be touted as role models because they were being sex hypocrites. 'I remember throwing lots of condoms out to assembly at schools. I felt a bit stupid, to be honest. One minute we're rubbing jelly all over our arses and the next we're telling teenagers not to have sex', says Donald. Meanwhile, Gary, 38, reveals the band still feel pained over recluse Robbie Williams, despite mending some bridges last year. He now blames himself for being 'domineering'. 'I feel quite sorry for him and my natural instinct is to help him. But even after 10 years he's one of us still. He longs to be one of us still, so I feel sorry for him. His life, could be better I think', says Barlow. 'All this UFO stuff is a laugh with the press. He's like that. You are always on the butt-end of his sense of humour.' Barlow remains suspect on how Williams will make his much hyped return with the band on stage some day soon. 'Out of a UFO with a big beard? I don't think it will happen' he jokes. Meanwhile Take That remain wary of the manufactured pop acts on the scene. 'Half the singers off The X Factor are better than us' says Orange. 'If Simon (Cowell) could give his acts the story we have, then he'd have the ultimate pop act', admits Barlow. Meanwhile Howard Donald says he now feels like 'a c**k' after contemplating killing himself in the river Thames after Barlow became successful as a solo star. He stopped his tragic plan after thinking: 'Don't be such a d**k' 'Knowing me I'll end up in the middle of the river and the tide will go out and I'll be in the papers stuck in the Thames mud looking like a c**k.' Meanwhile, Gary admits Victoria Beckham turned down his offer to work with her, saying she then had 'a pop at me in the Spiceworld movie... but I was the easiest target imaginable.' Read the full interview in Q magazine, out Monday. Source:METRO
January 22, 200916 yr Take That: our regrets over Robbie going off the rails Q Magazine.. Take That have opened their hearts about their regrets over failing to heed the warning signs about Robbie Williams' meltdown prior to his quitting the band. In an interview for the new edition of Q on sale on Tuesday the band also shatter their squeaky clean image forever by talking about the sex and drugs they enjoyed during their first flush of fame. Robbie quit the band in 1995 as he began to rely more heavily on drink and drugs, and started to hang around with Oasis, prior to immense fallout with the Gallagher brothers. Now in an extensive Q interview, the band’s Gary Barlow has admitted the band should have kept more of an eye on Robbie’s descent, which he called “ a series of events that we should have spotted”. He added: “That’s my one regret. I missed the signs. I think we all did.” Bandmate Howard Donald said: “I spoke to Rob about it last summer. I said I was sorry I never took the time to notice he was drinking a bottle of vodka a day. However the band are still holding the door open for a possible collaboration with Robbie. Williams himself spoke before Christmas about how he had patched things up with the band, but said he was busy with his own projects in the immediate future. Take That’s Jason Orange said: “Let’s get him back as quickly as possible.” And Howard added: “I think it will happen one day.” There had been a chance of getting Rob to contribute to a song called Happy Ending but it was eventually decided not to include it on latest album The Circus. Barlow said: “I don’t think the way for him to come back would be the stage shows. If I wanted Rob to do something again it would be on a creative level.” The band also talked about their early wild years in the interview for Q272, which is out on January 27. Barlow admits he began womanising after a trip to the Netherlands in 1992: “ In Amsterdam I slept with a fan, a Chubby Dutch girl, and went on from there.” He added: “We just had a lot of fun. I don’t fell any guilt when I think about the amount of sex I had.” And Howard claimed he took drugs with Robbie in the early days of the band: “We smoked weed and giggled like idiots. And before Take That I dabbled with drugs, watching Sasha DJ in Ashton-under-Lyne. LSD mainly. “I feel quite proud now I don’t take drugs and hardly drink,” he concluded. 11:03 AM | 22/01/2009 Q Magazine
