Take That star Howard Donald has so many cars he has to store some of them at his friends’ homes – and he admits his wife has no idea how many he owns.
The singer says he has “around 17” and his garage has got so full he has to move several motors when he wants to access one.
Howard, 54, whose hits with the boy band include Never Forget and Relight My Fire, insists it is just a “little handful” next to the haul owned by fellow 90s star Jay Kay, 53, of Jamiroquai.
But he says: “It’s come to a point where you’re trying to put them in other people’s garages and you’re thinking, ‘No, it’s too ridiculous.’"
Asked if his illustrator wife Katie Halil knows exactly how many he has, he tells the Fuelling Around podcast how she noticed one racing car and asked when he had bought it.
He recalls: “I said, ‘Do you not remember I told you I got this one a couple of weeks back?’ So you have to be super careful.”
His collection includes a Chevrolet Brookwood 1959.
In a 2021 interview with GQ he told of a Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG which he uses to drive his family, as well as a 1970 vintage Mercedes-Benz 280SE Cabriolet.
In 2018 Howard drove his Porsche 356 at the Goodwood Motor Circuit.
He admits he might have to start selling some of his stash to continue funding his sons’ education if Take That stops performing.
He says: “One day it’ll come to the crunch where Take That probably will stop eventually, and then you think, ‘I’m going to have to sell one of my cars’.” He jokes: “I really hate my kids for that, though.”
Fortunately he will be touring with bandmates Gary Barlow, 52, and Mark Owen, 51, next year. Greatest Days, a film starring Aisling Bea about five Take That fans, is out this year. The band plays BST Hyde Park on July 1, with a new album on the way too.
