And Finally

Gary Barlow used to charge bandmates to use his mobile

By | Published on Monday 10 October 2011

Gary Barlow

Gary Barlow has admitted that back in the 1990s, when mobile phones weren’t quite as common, he was the only member of Take That to have one, and he charged the other a pound every time they borrowed it to make a call.

This apparently came up during a radio conversation between Barlow and bandmate Robbie Williams, after the latter admitted he hasn’t had a mobile since 2006 (presumably since T Mobile stopped paying him millions to tell us we should all have one).

According to Mr Paparazzi, after the now mobile-less Williams admitted he had sometimes used Barlow’s phone during the most recent Take That tour, Gary said: “I was thinking of charging you but I thought that I can’t do that again…. It used to be a quid per phone call. Can you imagine what it would be now?”

Well, given how much mobile phone call costs have fallen in the last fifteen years, I’d say about 2p.



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