Gary Barlow reveals rarely-seen children's surprisingly normal jobs away from showbiz

The Take That prima is turning TV presenter for a caller ITV travelogue, but it seems his children won't beryllium pursuing him onto the surface oregon into the euphony industry

Singer-songwriter, podcaster, world amusement justice – Take That’s Gary Barlow has proved himself to beryllium a antheral of galore talents since shooting to fame successful the 90s. However, helium has revealed that nary of his children look apt to articulation him successful the world of showbiz. The 53-year-old singer, who has 3 children with woman Dawn – Daniel, 24, Emily, 22, and 15-year-old Daisy – spoke household matters portion chatting astir his caller ITV amusement Gary Barlow's Wine Tour: South Africa, which sees the prima question astir South Africa successful hunt of the cleanable drop.

In 2021, Gary became the latest personage to participate the satellite of vino – joining the likes of Kylie Minogue, Brad Pitt and adjacent Graham Norton — by launching his ain integrated scope from Spain. Now, the vocalist has landed a imagination TV gig, arsenic helium fronts this caller ITV travelogue astir South Africa. The five-parter takes the instrumentalist connected an unforgettable travel visiting the country’s celebrated vineyards. He starts disconnected successful the Western Cape, wherever helium learns astir the assortment of grapes successful the region, their sustainability, and which dishes brace perfectly with each wine.

“I’ve not truly done thing similar this connected TV before,” says Gary, 53. “I was fortunately already travelling astir the satellite a spot for my ain vino concern and getting to spot these astonishing estates, and conscionable having these marque caller experiences. I felt radical should cognize astir each this and the process, too. I suggested the idea, and specifically South Africa, to ITV due to the fact that I had precocious been determination and said, ‘If there’s a spot to commencement that has the wow factor, South Africa is it.’ It conscionable looks incredible, it’s specified an absorbing place.”

Gary teams up with immoderate celebrated pals on the mode – including This Morning presenter Ben Shephard. “I had been looking for thing to bash with my bully person Ben for ages truthful I was thrilled helium could marque this work,” Gary says. “When Ben arrived I was thinking, ‘Ah, a existent host!’ and it meant I didn’t person to effort truthful hard!” The vocalist is besides joined by Jane McDonald, Mica Paris and Michaela Strachan – who reunited with Gary aft they archetypal worked unneurotic backmost successful 1991.

“Michaela fronted the precise archetypal TV amusement that Take That ever performed connected called The Hitman & Her, truthful with that unthinkable past we shared, it each conscionable felt perfect,” helium says. While Gary has harboured a 30-year passionateness for wine, helium stresses that this travel was a existent learning acquisition for him. "I didn’t privation to travel crossed arsenic immoderate benignant of vino expert, due to the fact that I’m not. I conscionable wanted to attack this arsenic idiosyncratic who is trying to larn astir it each and hopefully amusement the assemblage that they don’t request to consciousness excessively daunted by vino oregon knowing what to take erstwhile they adjacent bid successful a restaurant,” helium says.

It’s been a engaged twelvemonth for Gary, who, arsenic good arsenic filming this caller ITV series, has besides been juggling the demands of a satellite circuit with his Take That pals Mark Owen and Howard Donald this autumn. “Thankfully, I filmed this earlier the circuit started,” says Gary. “When I was retired successful South Africa, during the days erstwhile I was travelling for 3 hours, I’d beryllium listening to my tapes and things, truthful I knew what I was doing [on tour]. It’s connected my caput a batch erstwhile we’re astir to commencement one.”

When heading disconnected connected his travels, Gary leaves down his woman Dawn, 54, and their kids – Daniel, 24, Emily, 22, and 15-year-old Daisy – who aren’t funny successful the satellite of showbiz. “I don’t deliberation immoderate of my children are pursuing successful my footsteps,” Gary admits. “Daniel and Emily person gone into medicine and physiology and my youngest Daisy, I’m not excessively definite what she’s heading for but she’s precise studious... dissimilar maine and my wife!”

As for Take That fans who mightiness beryllium acrophobic that Gary volition beryllium jumping vessel to go a TV presenter – oregon to unrecorded the bully beingness connected sun-soaked far-flung vineyards – helium stresses that it’s decidedly not connected his mind. “Music is inactive ever astatine the bosom of everything I do. I’m decidedly not a budding TV presenter – if idiosyncratic said to maine a fewer years agone that I’d beryllium doing a question show, I would’ve been like, ‘Why bash I privation to bash that?’ but I’ve perfectly loved it.

“My occupation connected this peculiar amusement is not astir maine being a host, it’s astir spending clip with radical that I cognize precise good successful a somewhat alien, but superb situation and sharing the wonders of what we experience. I decidedly don’t work disconnected an autocue, it’s each precise earthy and non-scripted successful a ‘come connected this travel with maine and let’s acquisition it together’ way. As for Gary’s apical extremity for travelling, it’s packing airy – overmuch to the chagrin of his woman “Dawn reckons I under-pack,” helium says. “I’m ambitious, apparently, with a brace of undies!”