{"id":630283,"date":"2026-06-10T01:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/630283\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T01:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:31:13","slug":"take-that-superfans-make-trip-to-sunderland-from-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/630283\/","title":{"rendered":"Take That superfans make trip to Sunderland from Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also recalled the time Gary Barlow had promised fans he would attend some of their major milestones in 2016. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We campaigned for 263 days and then he turned up on my 40th,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Greatest day came on &#8211; 200 guests moved forward and I turned around and there he was behind me singing Greatest Day,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile Allison Ellis and Linda Russell, from Whitley Bay, said they arrived in Sunderland at 06:00 BST to get to the front of the gig queue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked why they were such big fans, Ellis said: &#8220;They&#8217;re just nice lads and they&#8217;re not bad looking.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She also recalled the time Gary Barlow had promised fans he would attend some of their major milestones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-630283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}