TAKE THAT mania has reached an all-time high over the past few weeks. The band announced a record-breaking stadium tour and their first new album for 15 years featuring the full original line-up.
But the road to the big announcement at the Savoy Hotel two weeks ago was far from smooth.
Every Take That fan has been gripped by the story of the lads' reconciliation with ROBBIE.
And for the first time, on Saturday night millions of TV viewers will be able to see exactly what unravelled behind the scenes.
The warts-and-all documentary at 9.30pm on ITV1 - straight after X Factor - lifts the lid on some intimate scenes as the band settled their issues.
And it is seriously gripping stuff.
Cameras followed GARY BARLOW, 39, MARK OWEN, 38, JASON ORANGE, 40, and HOWARD DONALD, 42, as they made peace with Robbie, 36, after a bitter decade apart.
Each member offers a brutally honest - and often shocking - account of their feelings, with some genuinely tear-jerking moments.
Robbie is visibly unwell in early scenes, looking like a broken man. After the initial making up, he walks out AGAIN because he isn't ready to emerge from his self-imposed exile.
The documentary - Take That: Look Back, Don't Stare - follows Mark Owen as he emerges from rehab and delves into Gary's feelings about his vicious war of words with Robbie.
Jason and Howard also open up about their fears of slipping into the background as a pair of "muppets" dancing in the background.
It's compelling viewing and something the band are very proud of making. It will be a ratings buster this weekend. Here's a preview of what the band have to say.
Robbie
One of the most riveting moments sees Gary and Rob open up about their feud.
Robbie said: "My problem has always been with Gary. It always was with Gary. I wanted to crush him, I wanted to crush the memory of the band - and I didn't let go.
"You know, even when he was down, I didn't let go. And for that I sincerely apologise. But I needed Gary to listen to my truth, to what my experience was, and I needed him to validate it for me.
"And he validated it for me. And it was a real f****** magical moment because you realise when two grown-ups meet up and go, 'Here's my truth' you go, 'Yeah, I'm sorry'.
"There's room for movement and you realise you only hurt so much because you love them so much."
The rift has healed to the point that they have become incredibly close.
Rob added: "He's gone way beyond being a father figure and looking after us, driving this machine and being the captain of the ship. And I'm incredibly happy to be under his tutelage because he's the man."
Robbie's apology is genuine and heartfelt, with the excitement about his fresh start. "All of a sudden I'm inspired, there's something to work on and some people to work with. There's nothing for me to do other then be in Take That.
"I'm f****** bored. I'm scared, I'm lonely, and I've said everything I want to say in a record. I'm enjoying this sharing too much to want to go back to the Robbie Williams band.
"I'm breaking me up. Yeah, I'm breaking me up because of music similarities.
"We don't need each other - we want each other. My hope is that that friendship will regenerate itself somehow. I want to play a game where we get to know each other, and the playing of the game is writing the tunes.
"It's like that jumping out of a plane thing and I've packed my own parachute - that's really worrying."
Robbie walks out on the band again after the Children In Need show last November, when he appeared with Take That on stage for the first time in 15 years.
He explained his wobble by saying: "I wasn't very well, physically. I just didn't feel as if I had the energy to do it.
"It was a scary prospect to be out there among something so huge, feeling so depleted of life force."
Mark
One of the most poignant moments in the documentary shows Mark emerging from a month in rehab after confronting his booze demons.
He makes a two-mile walk from the rehab centre on the coast as part of the treatment to think about what he has been through.
He said: "I didn't really know I was broke - but I was pretty f****** broke when I look back at it now. Drink and me equals not good, really.
"There was a time when I was, like, 'I can't ever go in a studio ever again, I can't do this. It's just not who I am or what I've been doing'.
"And then I thought, 'Well, you know it's quite selfish, we've come this far now and done all this work. Don't let everybody down. You've let everybody down enough - you don't want to let them all down again'." Now the band are back together, he spoke about how they will all have to find their role again.
He added: "Now Rob's come back into the band, maybe it's time for us to make peace with the whole thing, to reflect a little bit on the journey. Everybody's got to find their space. It's important to find your own space within it all."
When Robbie dropped the bombshell that he was leaving for the second time, Mark was the one who encouraged him to re-think.
He said: "I went round to Rob's house a couple of times because it's just better if you can talk to each other, I think.
"We worked it out that day. We said forget about promotion, forget about touring because that's a big thing. It's always daunting. You know, it's a year.
"Let's just say we make this record. Look at how many days it's going to take us max. We worked out it is going to take about 30 days of being in the studio this year. Do you want to do it?
"Yeah, I wanna do it. Well, do you have 30 days spare? Yeah, I've got 30 days spare. Well right, let's do it." Mark clashes in one scene with Gary, arguing about ideas in the studio. Mark said: "We have to find a way to agree on something, what's the process there, because we are gonna hit walls."
Gary
For the first time Gary opens up about the extent of his depression when Robbie attacked him relentlessly as his solo career stalled.
The abuse was so bad, at one point he asked the bank if he could change his name on his credit cards.
He said: "It was hard watching Rob getting further and further into the distance and I just seemed like I'd gone ten steps back.
"It was like a constant daily mock. It followed me everywhere. You just feel like a total loser.
"In fact, I remember asking the bank whether I could change my name on my card. I couldn't face my own name because even over the phone people would hear it and make some wisecrack.
"The Rob I'm with now certainly wasn't the guy I was with in the Nineties. I needed those years. I needed that to happen to get to here. I almost want to say thanks. All that s*** was great because it made me reach the bottom. Now look at me.
"One of the things that was a big revelation about joining the band this time round was how much I loved everyone's company.
"How much I loved hearing about what happened during everyone's weekend. I wasn't interested in that the first time around.
"If we hadn't come back together as a band, we wouldn't have seen Rob again. We needed to meet again as equals - with equal success - back in a great place. And we are equals right now.
"I'd like Rob to have a real ball with us. I wanna see him alive on stage because I haven't seen it for years. If it helps him and if it helps him find Robbie again, then that's gonna be great."
The despair etched on Gary's face when he discovers Robbie has quit again is touching stuff.
Gary is filmed saying: "When I heard, just before I went on holiday Rob doesn't want to do it now, I was like, 'What the f***'s this!' I never really wanted to be in a band. I felt like I'd got to the end of Take That and I was saying there goes my long-lost friends and farewell to them, because we'd all been stitched together by a manager, had travelled the world for five years together."
Howard & Jason
At the press conference a couple of weeks back, in Robbie's words Howard was "the body" and Jason was "the dancer".
But in Look Back, Don't Stare, they prove they are equal to the others, offering the toughest criticism of Robbie's return.
Robbie asks Howard if he is nervous and he replies: "Yeah, I suppose I am worried about feeling part of it, really - you know, now we have three great writers. We don't just want to be the two muppets in the background.
"I remember sending Robbie an email saying this is about our life. This is about the five of us. This is about life."
Jason added: "Howard said, 'Should we make up a dance routine so we can show them something when we turn up?'
"Look how far we have come since 20 years ago, when it was just dog eat dog. It was every man for himself - and now we try to help each other. It's quite a transformation really.
"Aside from the laughs that we shared with the lads, it was all s*** those years. When Rob walked back in the room if felt whole again. Whatever happens, by hook or by crook, we've just got to do it. Whatever it takes - fall-outs, arguments, tears, whatever."
Jason takes it badly when Robbie walks out for the second time. He said: "It was like the rug was pulled from under my feet. I was gutted. I actually said to Rob, 'Your whims have a direct effect on us'. But, equally, none of us were going to say 'No' to Rob.
"We were going to try to encourage him strongly but we weren't going to say, 'No, you must do this' - because we tried to manipulate him and each other back in the day and we don't want manipulation to be part of it. It was his choice."
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