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FULL NAME: Mark Anthony Patrick Owen

DATE OF BIRTH: January 27, 1972

BIRTHPLACE: Oldham, England

STAR SIGN: Aquarius

HEIGHT: 5’7”

EYES: Green

FAMILY DETAILS: Mum Mary, dad Keith, brother Daniel, and sister Tracey

BAD HABITS: Mumbling, biting nails, constant worrying which gets everyone else in a flap

QUALITIES: Thoughtfulness, taking care of the rest of the band, easy to get on with, helps mum around the house

FOOD: Fish, vegetables. Tuna and salad cream on brown bread with no butter.

SHOES: Big boots and Converse boots

LIKES: Dolphins, playing football, the film The Outsiders, Simply Red, Sade, Nice ‘N’ Spicy Nik Nacks, Double Deckers, lying on my bed listening to music, hats

DISLIKES: Smelly breath, tidying my bedroom

FILLINGS: one

PETS: Rebel the dog, the birds Del Boy and Pepe, Jaws the fish, and Nirvana the lizard

DISTINGUISHING MARKS: Dolphin tattoo

MARK ON JAPAN: “At first the fans are quite shy there. I think that’s because the man is seen as the more dominant figure in their society while the woman holds back. I see Valentine’s Day as a chance for the guy to give the woman flowers. That’s the way I view it. But in Japan, it’s totally the opposite. The guy doesn’t get the woman anything, but the woman gets the guy chocolates and flowers.”

MARK ON FOOD: “The lads, especially J, are always on at me for not eating enough. If I leave even a few chips on my plate, Jason’s starting at it going, “C’mon Marky, you can manage those few!” It’s not that I don’t like eating, but sometimes I forget, and when I do eat, I get full up quickly. I’m only little!”

MARK ON BEING IN TAKE THAT: “I definitely think if I had to choose all over again, I would do this again. But only if it was with the same people. I couldn’t do it with different people. It would have to be us five.”

MARK ON MARRIAGE: “I want to get married one day. I don’t really have any great ambitions. This is my ambition come true - being in Take That. I know it’ll be a long time before I get married, but when I do, my idea of pure bliss is just to have a nice little house, a wife, and a dog.”

MARK ON HIS CHILDHOOD: “I remember on my fourth birthday I was smacked and sent to bed because I thought I could get away with anything! I also got told off all the time for playing football in the house. I broke two windows in one day once. Just as they were fixing the one at the front of the house, I broke the one at the back of the house!”

A THING TO REMEMBER ABOUT MARK: He thinks his nose looks like it’s got a tennis ball poised on the end of it!

FULL NAME: Jason Thomas Orange

DATE OF BIRTH: July 10, 1970

BIRTHPLACE: Manchester, England

STAR SIGN: Cancer

HEIGHT: 6’

EYES: Blue

FAMILY DETAILS: Mum Jenny, her partner Bill, brothers Simon, Dominic, Sam, Oliver, and twin bro Justin, stepbrother Simon, and stepsisters Sarah, Emma, and Amy!

BAD HABITS: Big flirt!

QUALITIES: Good company, thoughtful, sensitive

SHOES: “My cowboy boots that I bought in New York last year.”

LIKES: Reading, playing guitar, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, keeping in shape, Geena Davis, Jelly Babies, candlelight

DISLIKES: Dishonesty and badmouthing people behind their backs

FILLINGS: three

DISTINGUISHING MARKS: Scar under left eye

JASON ON HIS BEDROOM: “Like my whole flat, the bedroom’s very simple. It’s got a wooden floor, magnolia walls, long blue velvet curtains which I hung myself. My clothes hang on two black rails, there’s a chest of drawers and a mirror on one wall, and two chests that I keep my junk in.”

JASON ON LIFE BEFORE TAKE THAT: “I used to be a painter and decorator for the council. I had a laugh doing it, but I was glad to get out of it.”

JASON ON HIS TWIN BROTHER: “I’m 20 minutes older than Justin and although he’s my twin, I think I’m actually closer to my older brother Simon. But I’m close to Justin in that I know what Justin is feeling. It’s weird.”

JASON ON HIS MUM: “She’s the best. She’s absolutely beautiful looking, she’s kind, she’s caring, and she always puts us before herself.”

JASON ON FOOD: “I love curries, of course. But I generally eat a lot of raw fruit and vegetables, and I try not to mix proteins with carbohydrates. Every now and then, I’ll go against my principles and have a pig out, though!”

JASON ON TRAVELLING: “Japan is by far my favourite place that we’ve been to. Everything about it, the people treated us so well, the food was delicious, the culture is fascinating. I didn’t want to leave. But travelling really opens your eyes, it puts everything into perspective. You’ve got a narrow-minded view of things when you’ve only seen your own country. You don’t know what’s going on, but when you travel, you see things all the time and you just learn and learn.”

JASON ON BEING FAMOUS: “I wouldn’t change it for anything but sometimes it can be annoying when the papers make up things like we’re worth #5 million or whatever, and me mum rings up and says “Is this true, is that true? I’ve just read you did this!”.”

JASON ON FANS: “I’ve always said that the fans are the most important thing to us. We’ve always judged our success by the fans’ reaction and their support. That’s more of an indication than any award you could win.”

A THING TO REMEMBER ABOUT JASON: He thinks he’s got skinny chicken legs!

FULL NAME: Howard Paul Donald

DATE OF BIRTH: April 28, 1968

BIRTHPLACE: Manchester, England

STAR SIGN: Taurus

HEIGHT: 6’

EYES: Green

FAMILY DETAILS: Mum Kathleen, Stepdad Mike, Dad Keith, brothers Colin, Michael, and Glenn and a sister Samantha

BAD HABITS: Not bothering to cut nails, oversleeping

QUALITIES: Gunuine, honest, grateful, excellent sense of humour - Jason thinks Howard is the funniest person he knows. Also does a good impression of a tortoise.

FOOD: Italian, Indian (He and Jason had a stupid competition to see who could eat the hottest curry once. Whoever won would be King Na’an. Howard lost.) and custard

SHOES: “My Army and Navy boots, I’ve had ‘em for years, and they were dead cheap.”

LIKES: Seal, Level 42, Prince, Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon”, Only Fools and Horses, dancing, nice underwear, Seabrooks’ salt and vinegar crinkle cut crisps

DISLIKES: Smoking, dog pooh, fake people

FILLINGS: four

PETS: Tortoise called Winston and a cat called Jack

DISTINGUISHING MARKS: Birthmark on back of leg

HOWARD ON HIS MUM: “She’s just so lovely. She supported me from the beginning. One day I want to really spoil her just to say thank you mum for, you know, just being my mother really.”

HOWARD ON DOING INTERVIEWS: “It’s funny because we’ve sort of got our interview technique sorted. It’s not so bad in this country, but in the places like America where they don’t understand the British sense of humour, we’ll find what we say really funny, and they’ll just look at us like we’re really sad.”

HOWARD ON SWIMMING: “I like to swim as often as possible because apart from dancing, it’s the only stamina building thing I do. I wish I could run more, but I find running so boring. I can swim quite far. I’ve got a badge on my trunks for three miles.”

HOWARD ON HIMSELF: “I think I’m very caring. Maybe not as much as Mark, but I always said right from the start that I would never change if we became famous, and I honestly think I haven’t changed at all. And I think if you asked people who know me, they would agree.”

HOWARD ON SCHOOL DAYS: “A couple of weeks after I started school, I got this disease called Impetigo. When I was off school, this wicked teacher put this big sign on my desk saying “DON’T GO NEAR THIS DESK!” When I told my mum, she went up to the school and went mad!”

A THING TO REMEMBER ABOUT HOWARD: When he was a baby, he kept throwing his bottle out of his cot!

FULL NAME: Gary Barlow

DATE OF BIRTH: January 20, 1971

BIRTHPLACE: Cheshire, England

STAR SIGN: Capricorn (although the fan club’s official fact sheet lists him as Aquarius)

HEIGHT: 5’10” (“on a good day”)

EYES: Green

FAMILY DETAILS: Mum Marjorie, dad Colin, and brother Ian who’s got his own building business

BAD HABITS: Flicking people’s ears and leaving things round people’s houses

QUALITIES: A good laugh, sincerity, realistic, hardworking

SHOES: “The lads are on at me to stop wearing these free Caterpillar boots I’ve had for a year but there’s a lot of wear in them yet. I also like my Next boots which I got for #24 in the summer.”

LIKES: Coffee, music, my power book, Pet Shop Boys, Seal, Aaron Neville, massages, people playing with my hair, Drifters, the film Awakenings, writing songs, playing piano, and going to the cinema

DISLIKES: Exercise, smoking, going shopping for clothes, violence

PETS : Rabbit, two dogs, and a fish

FILLINGS: six

DISTINGUISHING MARKS: Scar on left cheek

GARY ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT:”I don’t like buses much. The last time I went on a bus was about a year ago when Howard dragged me into town. I learned to drive as soon as I could so I’ve always driven everywhere. But if I’m in London sometimes I sneak out to go for a look in the shops and I’ll just buy a travel card and get on the trains.”

GARY ON FOOD: “I love my food. I love a good curry. Me and J and ‘Ow are always up for a good Ruby. I like Italian and I like cheese and onion Ringos. I could eat ice cream by the gallon and I did try to give up chocolate once, but I only lasted a few months. I like fresh coffee too, oh yes, a nice cafetiere…”

GARY ON HIS FEET: “The Cats I’ve got are actually two sizes too big. You see, I’ve got quite wide feet, so I have to buy a bigger size sometimes to accommodate them.”

GARY ON HIS NAME: “I don’t know where this rumour started that my middle name was William because it isn’t! But even the people at the fan club thought it was William. It’s not. Just plain Gary Barlow. Not much of a pop star name, is it? Gary Barlow?”

GARY ON TRAVELLING: “Do you know what? We’ve been to so many countries and I remember them all by the food. I could tell you a restaurant in each place!”

GARY ON HIS BEST MATES: “It’s frightening how close we’ve all become. The lads in the band are my best friends. If we weren’t, it wouldn’t work. But we’re at the stage now where we should all be rowing and falling out with each other and we’re not. We’re even closer than before. It’s spooky.”

A THING TO REMEMBER ABOUT GAZ: He cried so much as a baby that his mum thought he was ill. He wasn’t, he just liked crying.

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Some things had changed, some things hadn’t

I can see some coincidences in the answers, and I just realized that Gary and Mark’s parents didn’t get a divorce and they’re both married, and Jason and Howard’s parents are divorced and they’re still single, I know it just a coincidence but I didn’t realize until now