{"id":642688,"date":"2026-06-17T01:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642688\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T01:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:59:12","slug":"take-that-tightrope-walker-says-performing-in-circus-live-tour-is-an-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642688\/","title":{"rendered":"Take That tightrope walker says performing in Circus Live tour is an &#8216;honour&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Take That originally brought the Circus Live tour to Wales in 2009, with the band performing three nights at the then Millennium Stadium. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group, made up of Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cj4ywe14gn4o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously said<\/a>: &#8220;The Circus tour was one of our favourite experiences as a band and, in the years since, we&#8217;ve talked many times about how much we&#8217;d love to do it again one day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now, 17 years on, they&#8217;re doing the same for one night only in Cardiff, ahead of releasing their 10th studio album towards the end of 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ellis told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m002xqjt\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio Wales Breakfast<\/a> he had been a high wire walker for 15 years, and as there are only a few of them in the UK at the moment, the opportunity &#8220;just came across my desk, so to speak&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is just a process of trust really. We&#8217;ve all got this ability in us,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With the circus already passing through Southampton, Sunderland, Coventry and Glasgow before coming to Wales, Ellis added he was &#8220;quite tired&#8221; after a month on the road &#8220;but the knees are feeling fine&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Take That originally brought the Circus Live tour to Wales in 2009, with the band performing three nights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-642688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642688","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=642688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}