He first found fame in the Nineties as a fresh-faced teenager.
Yet three decades on Gary Barlow proved he still has the power to make the ladies swoon as he sent Take That fans wild with his latest Instagram post on Friday.
The singer, 55, showed off his muscular physique in a black vest as he performed new single Sweet July alongside bandmates Howard Donald and Mark Owen.
Gary’s fellow X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger was quick to comment on Gary’s glow up, penning: ‘What the Sam ham!? Gaza you are ripped! smoke show, gun show!’
He had the same effect earlier in the week, when the band teased their single by mimicking Jennifer Hudson’s Spirit Tunnel videos, dancing down a corridor while flanked by the team on The Circus Tour.
Gary took the lead clad in a T-shirt and jeans while Mark and Howard followed on behind in sunglasses and shorts.
Fans couldn’t get enough of Gary, rushing to the comments to pen: ‘I can’t stop looking at Gaz !!!’; ‘Gary looks so young here’; ‘Gary Barlow is fiiiiiine’; ‘Gary has only gotten better since ‘92’
Gary Barlow, 55, sent fans wild with his incredible glow up as he plugged Take That’s new single, Sweet July, in an Instagram video on Friday
The singer, 55, showed off his muscular physique in a black vest as he performed the single alongside bandmates Howard Donald and Mark Owen
Gary’s fellow X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger was quick to comment on Gary’s glow up, penning: ‘What the Sam ham!? Gaza you are ripped! smoke show, gun show!’
There was also plenty of love for the others, with fans commenting: ‘Can’t listen to it when Howard is parading about in shorts’; ‘Wow!!! These guys keep on reinventing themselves’; ‘How beautiful, guys! ❤️❤️❤️ can’t wait to see the video’;
‘Had to get back to this. Watching Howard here reminds me of the tour. I loved every extra step and movement you implanted into your performances, perfect complements each time. How can somebody blossom at 58?! Need more and more and more Howard content to feed my freaking addiction’;
‘Also, can we just pause for a min to acknowledge how much Mark Owen looks as young as he did back when he first started out with the group! Haha! Love how much swagger you’ve all got in this short video clip! Can’t wait to hear the full version’.
It’s no wonder Gary was looking well, having previously revealed that he was pulling out all the stops to prepare for The Circus Tour, which kicked off in May and wraps up on Friday.
In December, the singer took to Instagram to reveal he was at luxury wellness clinic Lanserhof at The Arts Club, where annual memberships start at £6,500 plus a £1,500 joining fee.
In one snap, Gary could be seen wearing a VO2 max mask as he jogged on a treadmill, dressed down in casual workout gear.
Another showed him running again, this time captioned: ‘6 months to go to the Circus Tour’ along with a clown and flexed-bicep emoji.
He then shared a photo of himself with a tube in his arm as he appeared to have his bloods checked, writing: ‘No pain no gain’.
The star also posted a shirtless photo of himself during a workout, admitting he’s ‘excited’ to take on the high-energy show once again, though he was 16 years younger at the time.
Meanwhile, in other photos, Gary checked his health stats on a screen mid-run and tested the strength of his leg muscles on a Biodex leg-extension machine.
He rounded things off by sharing the results of his spine lab assessment, joking: ‘Still in one piece’ alongside several crying and laughing emojis.
He had the same effect earlier in the week, when the band teased their single by mimicking Jennifer Hudson’s Spirit Tunnel video s, dancing down a corridor while flanked by the team
Fans couldn’t get enough of Gary, Mark and Howard, rushing to the comments section
Gary has showcased a variety of different looks over the years, previously revealing that he was pleased when his weight gain resulted in him being recognised less.
Speaking in Take That’s Netflix documentary, Gary reflected on the band’s split in 1996, saying: ‘It was just so excruciating. You just wanted to crawl into a hole.
‘There was a period of about 13 months when I didn’t leave the house once. And I also started to put weight on. And the more weight I put on the less people would recognise me.
‘I thought “this is good, this is what I’ve been waiting for, living a normal life.” So I went on a mission. If the food passed me, I’d just eat it… and I killed the pop star.
‘I would have these nights where I’d eat and eat and eat, but however I felt about myself, I felt ten times worse the day after.’
In the series, Gary explained that he developed an eating disorder in the Nineties after his solo career failed to take off, admitting he was consumed with ‘jealousy’ at former bandmate Robbie Williams‘ success.
He confessed: ‘I was incredibly competitive so yeah, I think I was jealous.’
Explaining that he lost his way after being dropped by his record label, Gary said he began to think: ‘What am I going to do with the rest of my life?
‘Because that’s it with music now. I can’t even walk down the street now without someone shouting something about Robbie to me.’
Gary became the subject of widespread mockery, and he ‘saw it all’, with the issue being compounded by Robbie publicly making jibes at him.
He first found fame in the Nineties as a fresh-faced teenager, yet three decades on Gary proved he still has the power to make the ladies swoon (pictured in 1992)
Gary has showcased a variety of different looks over the years, previously revealing that he was pleased when his weight gain resulted in him being recognised less
It’s no wonder Gary was looking well, having previously revealed that he was pulling out all the stops to prepare for The Circus Tour, which kicked off in May and wraps up on Friday
In December, Gary document his time inside luxury wellness clinic Lanserhof at The Arts Club, where annual memberships start at £6,500 plus a £1,500 joining fee
Detailing the start of his bingeing and purging cycle, Gary continued: ‘One day I thought, I’ve been out, it’s 10 o’clock, I’ve eaten too much, I need to get rid of this food.
‘You just go off to a dark corner of the house and just throw up, just make yourself sick.
‘You think it’s only once and all of a sudden you’re walking down that corridor again and again – is this it? Is this what I’m going to be doing forever?’
Gary’s weight ballooned to 17 stone at the height of his battle before things came to a head in 2003.
He previously recalled: ‘It was the day when I just went, ‘No, I’m not having this anymore, I’m going to change. I want to change and I’m determined that this is not who I’ve become.’
‘It only took a few years to get that low, but it took me years to get back to who I wanted to be. 10 years probably.’
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