Jason Orange’s shock exit from Take That rocked followers in 2014, virtually 20 years after the band’s largest star Robbie Williams additionally give up 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 within the band for a while.

Nonetheless, he did not give a transparent rationalization as to why he was leaving, stating solely that there have been no “fallings out” and he “not want[ed] to do that”.

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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 reality 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 “did not need” that life anymore.

“I believe [Jason] felt like he did not wish to do it any extra,” Owen instructed The Occasions, earlier than including, “however I am not going to talk for him”.

Orange was with the group for over 20 years earlier than leaving to take pleasure in a quiet, personal life “off the grid” however Owen confessed that it seems like he is nonetheless a part of the band even now.

“He is nonetheless right here anyway. The opposite day we have been making an attempt to work out who one of the best joke-teller within the band is and remembered how Jason all the time laughed earlier than he bought to the punchline,” he stated.

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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 is good for him… that is the place he desires to be. I believe he desires to be one million miles away from this for the time being,” he stated throughout an look on Free Girls.

Orange hinted at his dissatisfaction with the pop star life in his personal exit assertion in 2014, the place he wrote: “On the finish of The Progress Tour I started to query whether or not it could be the suitable time for me to not proceed on with Take That.”

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In one other part, he stated: “At a band assembly final week I confirmed to Mark, Gary and Howard that I don’t want to decide to recording and selling a brand new album.”

He thanked his bandmates for an unimaginable profession collectively and Orange break up from the group on good phrases. The identical cannot be stated of Robbie Williams’ exit from the band in 1995.

Williams give up Take That in the course of the group’s No person Else world tour, sparking a bitter feud between him and Barlow 

“I believe that I used to be in the course of a nervous breakdown, my first of many,” he confessed of his exit final yr.

“Issues weren’t nice at residence, issues weren’t nice with my job, after which I used to be new to this phenomena of utmost fame…  it felt like I used to be in some kind of burning constructing and I wanted to get out.”

After leaving the group, Williams took purpose at Barlow and Take That a number of occasions, earlier than patching issues up years later.

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