Gary Barlow has candidly offered an apology to his beloved wife Dawn Andrews after she asked him a devastating question about their future. The Take That frontman and his wife are adjusting to a very different style of life without their three children present in the home anymore. The pair share Daniel, 24, Emily, 22, and 16-year old-Daisy – but while their kids might be building their own independent lives, Gary and Dawn, a former dancer he met on the band’s 1995 Nobody Else tour, are planning their “next 20 years” as a couple.

In an intimate conversation on Lulu’s Turning Point podcast, Gary shared a touching exchange between the couple as they grappled with their new reality.

“What’s funny now is we’ll get to Saturday night and we’ll go out and we’ll be sat, ‘Is it just us?’ ‘Yeah, sorry, it’s just me, is that alright?’ It’s going to have to be, isn’t it?” Gary joked.

The 54-year-old added that he and Dawn often have deep discussions about their future, explaining to OK! magazine: “We have our own little ambitions as a couple and we’re designing the next 20 years of our lives and it’s exciting.”

The Greatest Day singer also reminisced about his early days of touring and how Dawn’s timely arrival in his life meant they “went everywhere together”.

More recently, however, pop sensation Gary was handed a “yellow card” by his wife over being away frequently.

On one phonecall, Dawn asked: “Where are you?’, only for him to tell her: “You can check the website!”

Gary continues to hit the stage with Take That members Mark Owen and Howard Donald, despite Robbie Williams and Jason Orange parting ways with the group.

There was cause for celebration when the group’s classic track Greatest Day made its cinematic debut in the Oscar-winning film Anora.

Speaking with GQ, Gary expressed his excitement as he confessed it had been written in just a day: “It’s brilliant, it really is. This is the wonderful world of music!”