Jason Orange’s shock exit from Take That rocked followers in 2014, virtually 20 years after the band’s largest star Robbie Williams additionally stop the group. Now we all know why he left.
Orange introduced his sudden departure from the band in September 2014 with a press release the place he confessed he’d been questioning his place in the band for a while.
However, he did not give a transparent rationalization as to why he was leaving, stating solely that there have been no “fallings out” and he “no longer wish[ed] to do this”.
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It did not cease followers from speculating about his sudden exit however now, virtually 9 years on, Orange’s former bandmates have revealed the truth behind his exit.
Gary Barlow, 52, Mark Owen, 51, and Howard Donald, 55, confirmed this week that after years of touring and making music, Orange simply “didn’t want” that life anymore.
“I think [Jason] felt like he didn’t want to do it any more,” Owen informed The Times, earlier than including, “but I’m not going to speak for him”.
Orange was with the group for over 20 years earlier than leaving to get pleasure from a quiet, non-public life “off the grid” however Owen confessed that it seems like he is nonetheless a part of the band even now.
“He’s still here anyway. The other day we were trying to work out who the best joke-teller in the band is and remembered how Jason always laughed before he got to the punchline,” he mentioned.
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Fellow bandmate Donald revealed in 2018 that, after leaving the group, Orange moved to the countryside and stopped taking calls and emails whereas he centered on his private life.
“That’s good for him… that’s where he wants to be. I think he wants to be a million miles away from this at the moment,” he mentioned throughout an look on Loose Women.
Orange hinted at his dissatisfaction with the pop star life in his personal exit assertion in 2014, the place he wrote: “At the end of The Progress Tour I began to question whether it might be the right time for me to not continue on with Take That.”
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In one other part, he mentioned: “At a band meeting last week I confirmed to Mark, Gary and Howard that I do not wish to commit to recording and promoting a new album.”
He thanked his bandmates for an unbelievable profession collectively and Orange break up from the group on good phrases. The identical cannot be mentioned of Robbie Williams’ exit from the band in 1995.
Williams stop Take That in the center of the group’s Nobody Else world tour, sparking a bitter feud between him and Barlow
“I think that I was in the middle of a nervous breakdown, my first of many,” he confessed of his exit final 12 months.
“Things weren’t great at home, things weren’t great with my job, and then I was new to this phenomena of extreme fame… it felt like I was in some sort of burning building and I needed to get out.”
After leaving the group, Williams took intention at Barlow and Take That a number of occasions, earlier than patching issues up years later.
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