Mark Owen
How is the Take That star today?
would you have recognized him? Mark Owen celebrates 50th birthday.
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He became famous with Take That, now he’s celebrating his 50th birthday: how is Mark Owen today?
Mark Owen celebrates his 50th birthday on January 27th. The singer has been a member of the boy band Take That since 1990. In the 90’s and 2000’s Robbie Williams (47), Jason Orange (51), Gary Barlow (51), Howard Donald (53) and Mark Owen with songs like “Back For Good”, “Patience” and “How Deep Is Your Love” and made girls’ hearts beat faster. In the meantime, only the last three of the original five members remain.
There are always rumors of a five-piece comeback, but apart from occasional guest appearances by Robbie Williams, nothing has come of it so far. As a reminder: When Williams left the band in 1995 and the formation completely dissolved a year later, a world collapsed for many. In 2005 the group of four made a comeback, Robbie Williams didn’t join once more until 2010. Then, in 2014, both he and Jason Orange threw in the towel.
Great success for the 30th anniversary
The group is also successful “only” as a threesome: in 2019 the band went on a big tour to celebrate their 30th anniversary. The year before they released their greatest hits album Odyssey. In her native UK, the long-player went straight to number one in the charts and was also the fastest-selling album of 2018.
Take That gave their fans a little taste of what a reunion of all five original members might look like in May 2020 during the Corona lockdown. Mark Owen, Howard Donald, Gary Barlow and Robbie Williams played an online concert together, only Jason Orange was missing. Since 2020, however, things have calmed down around the band. The corona pandemic prevented concerts, fans have been waiting for new music since 2017: At that time, the last studio album “Wonderland” was released.
For the next few years, Take That only existed as a trio
What’s next for Take That? Gary Barlow gave the British “Sun” an answer to this question in November 2021. He was “ready to return to my daily work”, by which he meant the work in the band. “We’re going to have a nice planning year in 2022. I don’t think we’re going to release anything or tour anything,” he announces the bad news first. “But the following year 2023 will be a big year for Take That,” he promised.
However, he was unable to persuade his former bandmate Jason Orange to return. “Jason isn’t coming back. Take That is Mark, Howard and I for the next few years.”
What has Mark Owen been up to since the Corona pandemic?
Mark Owen will celebrate his 50th birthday until the “big year” 2023. Not only regarding the band, but also regarding him it has become quieter in the past few months. He only occasionally speaks out on social media. He regularly makes declarations of love to his wife, actress Emma Ferguson (46), on Instagram. After Owen admitted to having extramarital affairs and alcohol problems in 2010, there was an ice age between the two. However, the couple got back together. Today, Mark Owen appears to be a happy father to his three children.
In the Corona lockdown of 2020, he put his fans in a good mood with his regular “Happy Hour” and cooking videos on social media. The following year, however, he was rarely active on Instagram, which worried some fans. “We hope you’re doing well, we miss you,” was not just a comment.
At the end of the year he made his musical debut with a cover of the Christmas song “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”. on the platform back. In January 2022 he showed himself in a video on a beach vacation. Shortly before his 50th birthday, Mark Owen finally had a new haircut: his long blonde mane, which now has a few gray strands, became a little shorter. On his day of honor he received a “glow up”, he says in dem Video.