Not content with selling 15 million albums and 14 million singles with Take That, three years ago Gary Barlow indulged another of his passions by launching his own range of affordable organic wines.
Now, with a whopping ten million glasses sold, the singer and songwriter has taken things a step further by making a new television series called Gary Barlow’s Wine Tour: South Africa, which sees him hanging out in vineyards, eating great food and cooking braai with mates including This Morning’s Ben Shephard, singers Mica Paris and Jane McDonald, and another old mucker from way back.
Not content with selling 15 million albums and 14 million singles with Take That, three years ago Gary Barlow indulged another of his passions by launching his own range of affordable organic wines The second episode sees Gary stomping down grapes in the Cape Winelands and then meeting Michaela for a ‘jazz safari’ of Cape Town. They go home with musician Hilton Schilder to taste his Cape Malay Chicken Curry. Did Gary do any cooking at all? ‘The chef cancelled on us at another place so me and Ben Shephard had to cook. Well, we were doing the braai, so we threatened some food with fire. That’s as good as it got, but it was a good laugh.
In those days he was not able to talk about how he was feeling to anybody. ‘You’ve got to remember, this wasn’t a day and age where you could say, “I need help.” It was a very different time then, especially as a man and as a new father.’ The buff, bare-chested boy from 1990 looks very different to the distinguished gentleman of today. From left, Take That's Gary Barlow, Robbie Williams, Jason Orange, Howard Donald and Mark Owen
Take That are on the road again soon. ‘We go to the Middle East, Singapore, Australia, up into Asia, Japan.’ Sounds like he’ll be away from the family for a long time. ‘That is the hardest piece of everything we’ve talked about: the balance of work and home. It’s really tricky. In my defence… I’m now talking to my wife through you! This is unusual for us, to do a year of touring. We usually go for no more than three weeks at a stretch, but we can’t this time.
‘That was a huge album for us, our first real breakthrough worldwide.’ Suddenly Gary could afford the finer things. ‘I first properly enjoyed a glass of alcohol when I was about 25. Eliot took me to a restaurant – the Belvedere in Holland Park, we waited weeks for a reservation – and he said, “Right, I’m gonna make you drink some wine.” I was like, “Absolutely not. I hate wine. It’s the worst thing ever.” Eliot ordered a Châteauneuf-du-Pape. He said I’d love it and I did.
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