FIRES DULY RE-LIT

Take That's worries that they might have been playing to half-empty halls (like they'd have been offered a small fortune if someone hadn't tested the waters first) were proved to have been as foolish as those rumours that Robbie Williams would play James Bond: their first tranche of tickets sold out in half an hour.

It would have been faster, but every person wanted to confirm that gurning idiot Williams definitely wasn't going to be popping up at those dates first.

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