ITV This Morning viewers gush over Mark Owen's appearance despite 'criminal' move

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You're probably thinking you've seen Mark Owen on your TV screens quite a lot of late. Well, that's because he has new music and a new tour to promote. His latest stop saw him take a seat on the famous This Morning sofa on Tuesday (September 27) as he chatted to Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby about his latest projects.

The Take That star has released his brand new solo single You Only Want Me and album Land of Dreams, his first release outside of the band in almost a decade. He spoke sweetly to the presenting duo about how his children appear on the record.

Kicking off the interview by chatting about his new material, Mark told Phillip and Holly: "Pretty much just before lockdown and things closed, I wrote this song, I started to make a record... I was thinking about what I was kinda gonna do because I knew I had a break from Take That because we'd finished the third year anniversary."

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"I got this one song called Rio which is on the album which I got really excited about and it sort of made me realise, 'I think I'm making a record here'. And I spoke to this wonderful record producer who's out in Los Angeles and we talked about the song and what we were gonna do and then everything closed and I was stuck with this song!" Mark continued.

"But it's been a wonderful process and it gave me time to sort of make the record, and once I've got off my own treadmill, I really took the time to make the record."

But Mark couldn't have been on the show without a mention of Take That and he confirmed that he and his bandmates Gary Barlow and Howard Donald have been discussing plans for new music. Phillip,