Take That star unfazed by Britney battle
Rex Features
Take That star Jason Orange has revealed that he is refusing to get competitive with Britney Spears when their albums go head-to-head next week.
The group’s new offering The Circus will be in direct competition with Spears’s comeback disc, also titled Circus, from Monday.
Speaking to the Daily Star, Orange insisted: “It’s not a big deal. Mark [Owen] is more bothered about it. It’ll be unfortunate if she gets higher than us in the charts, then I’ll be like: ‘Bitch’. But as it stands now, it’s one of those things.”
The band refused to change the name of their album after it emerged that the two records would be competing for sales in the same week.
A spokesman insisted at the time: “I doubt there will be confusion. Fans will either ask for the new record by Take That or Britney Spears.”