Never Forget

Featuring the greatest hits from Take That, Never Forget is the fictional tale of a tribute band trying to make it big while dealing with the trials that Manchester life is throwing at them. The show smashed box office records when it went on tour this year around the UK. The DVD is a fun-filled close-up version of the stage hit which will hit the West End in the spring. I went to meet the lovely boys who make up the cast to talk about the show, stripping and how they feel about the real Take That.

All five boys; Dean Chisnal who plays lead male Ash Sherwood (the 'Gary' of the tribute band) and the four other boys who play the remaining members of the tribute band Craige Els, Stephane Anelli, Tim Dreisen and Eaton James, are sitting around on sofas beaming as they watch their own performances on DVD. When I walk in, Craige who plays cheeky chappy Jake Fairbrother (We can all guess which ex-Take That member he is in the tribute band) offers me a nipple. It's a pink mushroom sweet actually but Craige decides it looks like a nipple and proceeds to make me blush for the first time (but not the last) before the interview has even started.

As a new show the boys got to make the characters their own so I wanted to find out how it felt being the original cast. Tim, who plays Adrian Banks says “It's something that you strive towards rather than following in someone else's footsteps. You can start from scratch and make it your own as we did with this one.”

Although they didn't have a previous cast to live up the boys had even bigger fish they had to contend with – Take That themselves. Dean says: “We didn’t have any pressure because we didn’t have any time to feel any pressure. We just had to rehearse and throw ourselves into it. It’s also important to stress that we’re not actually playing Take That so the pressure was taken off of us in that sense.”

Eaton James plays stripper Harry who takes the role of Howard in the tribute band. He adds: “The fact is that anyone who grew up in that kind of time knows their music and is able to sing along.