Mark Owen: Take That’s reunion happened because we were drunk

Mark Owen has revealed that Take That’s incredibly successful reunion came about after a night of drinking.

The boyband split in 1995 and the foursome - Mark, Gary Barlow, Jason Orange and Howard Donald - had happily pursued their own solo careers until they got back together again to film the ten-year anniversary documentary Take That: On The Record.

Mark explained: “We only came back to do the ten-year documentary and to talk about what had happened and where we were now.

“And because of the feedback we got off that, people started saying would we tour again?

“And then one night me, Gary and Howard went out for a drink - and we had a couple of drinks - and we thought, ‘We can do it!’ We were in the bar singing, ‘All I do each night is Pray… ’

“Basically we were a bit slopped up and we phoned Jay, I think he was at a wedding, and we said, ‘Jay, Jay, we’ve got this brilliant idea, come [over].’

“So he came [around] at two in the morning, we went round to Gary’s house and we stayed up ’til six, envisioning it, getting all really excited.

“Then we went home and slept and then obviously when you wake up it was like, ‘What have we just… What have we decided to do?’”

The group’s comeback tour, The Ultimate Tour, sold out in record time and they have since released two new albums ‘Beautiful World’ and ‘The Circus’.