Mark Owen admits two bandmates won’t be returning for Take That’s new album and tour next year

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TAKE THAT’S long-awaited reunion is just months away – but Robbie Williams will not be returning. The Rock DJ singer said last month that he was struggling to find the time for the band following the release of his new album XXV, and in an exclusive chat, Mark Owen has said he, Howard Donald and Gary Barlow will be pushing ahead without him.

Mark explained: “I would love for it to happen in the future but I think this next record will be the three of us. “We don’t need to talk about whether he will come back — it’s like this intuition thing. “He might — if he knows we are in the ­studio — come down and get involved somewhere, maybe in the writing, because that’s just how it happens.” Mark also admitted he was still living in hope that reclusive Jason Orange — who now chooses to live his life out of the spotlight ­having quit the band in 2014 — would rejoin.

Read More on Mark Owenowening it BBC Breakfast viewers seriously distracted by Mark Owen's appearanceDOUBLE-TAKE THAT Take That's Mark Owen unrecognisable from boyband heyday with long hair He added: “I would love the five of us to do something again one day in the future but we don’t know what will happen.” Referring to the band’s sixth album, Progress, their first to feature the original line-up since Robbie’s 1995 departure, he said: “When [all five of us reunited] in 2010, for us as a band it was really important to make that record. “To come together and work together for so many reasons, on so many levels — it was really special. “If anything happens again it will be because everyone really wants to hang out and have fun together and because our diaries have worked out.” Most read in BizarreSMARTING IN THE USA Miley Cyrus' dad Billy Ray 'engaged' to much younger.