Gary Barlow Apologises For Tax Row & Confirms Take That Album

After a four-month hiatus, Gary Barlow returned to Twitter last night and immediately got a few things off his chest.

The 43-year-old quit the social networking site after a vile Twitter troll hacked his account and made a tasteless reference to his stillborn daughter, Poppy.

The hack came shortly after stories emerged that along with his Take That bandmates Howard Donald and Mark Owen and over 1,100 other people, Gary had invested £26million in a music industry investment scheme, which allegedly acted as a tax shelter.

HM Revenue and Customs announced they would be pursuing Gary, Howard, Mark and many others for unpaid taxes.

Making his Twitter return shortly before 8pm last night, Gary wrote: “Hey everyone ! I'm back from 7 productive weeks in the US and I'm back on twitter!

“I've had a break from twitter after someone hacked my account and some very upsetting and disturbing text was written.

“Over the Summer I've remembered that I have so many supporters, friends and fans on here so why let 1 person ruin all the fun.”

Turning his attention to his controversial, headline-grabbing tax situation, Gary wrote:

Gary then confirmed that Take That have been hard at work on their follow-up to 2010’s 2.8million selling ‘Progress’ since the start of the year. He added:

After talking about his first musical ‘Finding Neverland’ opening in Boston and looking forward to playing Elton John’s End of Summer party this Thursday, Gary spent the rest of the evening responding to fans and retweeting their photos.

Since they formed in 1990, Take That have scored 27 top 40 singles and 16 top 5 singles in the United Kingdom alone - 11 of which have reached the top spot.

One of the most successful boy bands of all time, they’ve sold an estimated 45million albums across the globe.