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Gary Barlow thinks pop stardom is 'unhealthy'

Gary Barlow doesn't think fame is healthy at a young age

Gary Barlow thinks being a pop star at a young age is "highly unhealthy".

The 55-year-old singer found fame at the age of just 20 as the main singer and songwriter in Take That and when the band first split in the late 1990s, his solo career floundered and he dropped out of the spotlight, battling bulimia and depression, and while he has admitted there is "a lot of hubris" in his journey, he was already in an abnormal situation.

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