The manager of UK pop star Robbie Williams has confirmed that his star is definitely not planning on rejoining ‘boy band’ Take That, despite admitting earlier this month that he would “love” to sing again with the outfit.

According to Tim Clark, the 34-year-old “Angels” star is set to head back into the studio in early January, to continue work on the follow-up to 2006’s Rudebox. “I would certainly hope that a new album will be coming next year,” Clark admitted, when quizzed by the BBC if Williams would re-join the group he left back in 1995. “There are never any guarantees but that’s what we would hope. He’s been writing and we heard some wonderful stuff. I was with Robbie last week. He was at home and he was writing songs and he played some of them to us.”

Take That suffered after Williams chose to leave the group to pursue a solo career, causing him to fallout with fellow singer Gary Barlow. But now the pair have made up, says a source close to the band. “Robbie told his dad Pete that he’ll be pushing himself back in the limelight – talk of a reunion couldn’t be further from the truth,” a source revealed. “He might have buried the hatchet with Gary Barlow but the only person Robbie is concerned about selling records next year is himself.”