
When Take That set off for their first tour Down Under in the mid-Nineties, the fresh-faced boyband were unsurprisingly daunted by such a long journey. Thirty years later, distances haven’t changed, but Gary Barlow says he feels even closer to the destination than ever before.
“You don’t realise how much of a travel corridor now Australia is – definitely for us Brits,” says the solo singer, star of new series Gary Barlow’s Food and Wine Tour: Australia, starting today and airing every few weeks for six episodes until 27 June. “We love going there.”