Gary Barlow is dwarfed by best friend musician Eliot Kennedy as the pair strip off and share a boozy bath on the Take That star’s wine tour series

Gary Barlow was overshadowed by his best friend Eliot Kennedy as the pair stripped off and shared a boozy bath in Franschhoek for his new wine series.

The Take That star, 53, traveled to Cape Town with his musician friend, 55, for his new ITV series about wine, called Gary Barlow’s Wine Tour: South Africa.

In Gary’s new television series, he hangs out in vineyards, cooking delicious food and braai (South African barbecue) with friends like This Morning’s Ben Shephard, singers Mica Paris and Jane McDonald, and another old mucker from back in the day.

In one scene from the series, Gary and Eliot got naked and jumped in the bath together – leaving fans in hysterics over the stark difference between the two.

Gary and Eliot sipped delicious glasses of red wine as they bathed in wine bath salts and laughed together in the episode of the new series.

The Take That star, 53, traveled to Cape Town with his musician friend for his new ITV series about wine, called Gary Barlow’s Wine Tour: South Africa.

At a point that made his friend Eliot laugh, Gary said, “Oh, I needed that pee, it really made it warmer.” Sorry kid, it’s been a long time.

“It’s quite nice here, I have to say, it’s a lot of fun.”

While watching Monday’s episode, a fan pointed out the size difference between Gary and Eliot as they got into the bath.

“Gary Barlow’s best friend is scared, he doesn’t know why he’s so big,” they wrote.

“We drank a lot of wine and laughed a lot,” Gary says of the series. ‘And the big discovery when we arrived was that Michaela Strachan had lived there for 20 years. I never realized it.

‘Michaela was at the very first TV appearance that Take That ever did, she introduced us to The Hitman And Her. She took me out in a kayak to Seal Island.”

When asked if the wine lover owned a vineyard, Gary said: “Oh god, no. I don’t know if I’d like that, to be honest.

“The role I play in all of this is to offer my audience a choice of what I believe is the best wine in the world and make it affordable.”

In a scene from the series, Gary and Eliot got naked and jumped in the bath together – leaving fans in hysterics over the size difference between the two

Gary and Eliot sipped delicious glasses of red wine as they bathed and laughed together in the episode of the new series

The bath was filled with red liquid when wine bath salts were poured into it

While watching Monday’s episode, a fan pointed out the size difference between Gary and Eliot as they got into the bath

And now he talks about his passion on television. ‘ITV suggested we make something. I said, “I have a 15-second pitch for you: me, friends, wine, food, travel.” They said, “When do we start?”

South Africa looks amazing in the show, with Gary saying: ‘We were blessed with the most incredible scenery every day. That coast is so damn beautiful and the vineyards have their own beauty.’

There were difficult moments. ‘It is a complicated country and you certainly feel that. We end in Johannesburg.

“We know the history and it feels like a place that is healing, but not yet fully healed. We did have security with us. We must.’

In the first of five episodes, Gary and his friend and songwriting partner Eliot Kennedy visit vineyards in Stellenbosch to taste and blend wines, explore the countryside in jeeps and on electric bicycles, and undergo vinotherapy – a spa treatment that uses grapes to cleanse the skin. body.

They also try a Braaibroodjie, a cheese toastie cooked over hot coals, as Gary said: ‘We went to the Constantia region, where my favorite dessert wines come from.

In the first of five episodes, Gary and his friend and songwriting partner Eliot Kennedy visit vineyards in Stellenbosch to taste and blend wines, explore the countryside in jeeps and on electric bicycles, and undergo vinotherapy – a spa treatment that uses grapes to cleanse the skin. body

They also try a Braaibroodjie, a toasted cheese sandwich cooked over hot coals, as Gary said: ‘We went to the Constantia region, where my favorite dessert wines come from’ (pictured with Ben Shephard)

‘The chef there had trained in France, lived in Asia and then moved back to South Africa. We had the simplest tuna sashimi, he added grapefruit, it was the most incredible thing, absolutely delicious.”

In the second episode, Gary stomps grapes in the Cape Winelands and meets Michaela for a ‘jazz safari’ through Cape Town.

They go home with musician Hilton Schilder to taste his Cape Malay Chicken Curry.

“The chef canceled us at another place, so me and Ben Shephard had to cook,” Gary said of the show.

“Well, we were braaiing, so we threatened some food with fire. That’s as good as it got, but it was a good laugh.’