11-04-2025
Gary Barlow reveals surprise link to Andi Peters
It turns out that Gary Barlow and Andi Peters go way back.
On Friday, 11 April's edition of Lorraine, the award-winning musician joined presenter Ria Hebden for a quick chat about the new series of Wine Tour, which whisked him off Down Under this time around.
It was during their conversation that Barlow revealed Peters, who accompanied him in Australia, was one of his "oldest friends."
Barlow told Hebden: "Us Brits love Australia, but I think to get one level beneath the sort of tourism and get into the wine that country makes, it's off the scale."
"I imagine when you're going through your black book picking people to be in the show, I bet everybody wants to be a part of it," pointed out the Lorraine star.
"So we've got Sophie Ellis-Bextor; our own Andi Peters is in this as well! How did he wangle that?"
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That's when guest Barlow called back to a period of struggle for his boyband Take That, which was originally made up of himself, Robbie Williams, Mark Owen, Howard Donald and Jason Orange.
"D'ya know, Andi's one of my oldest friends," he said. "When no-one else would put us on TV, this is like 1990, Andi would make any excuse to have us in The Broom Cupboard."
Other celebrity guests set to appear on Wine Tour include Dannii Minogue, Tim Minchin and Ronan Keating.
Launched in 1985 with Phillip Schofield as host, The Broom Cupboard was a CBBC programme where its stars would introduce segments from a tiny control desk dubbed the 'Broom Cupboard'.
Four years into the show's run, Peters and Zoe Ball replaced Schofield and Andy Crane. His time in the studio also saw him working alongside iconic puppets Edd the Duck and Gordon the Gopher.
Peters left in 1993, and once spoke about some of the bold wardrobe choices he made on there.
"I always thought Andy Crane dressed badly, and Phillip too, so I thought I'd try some different combinations. I wore waistcoats a lot, and lots of tartan. And I was one of the people who originated wearing a short sleeve T-shirt over a long sleeve one," he claimed.
"It kind of became a trademark. Some days I even wore a tie! I quite enjoyed changing things and making it different."
Lorraine airs weekdays at 9am on ITV1 and ITVX, while Gary Barlow's Wine Tour: Australia premieres today at 2pm on the same channel.
