After many, many weeks of speculation and overtime at the rumour-mill, its was confirmed today that Robbie Williams will be joining his ex-bandmates from Take That.

The group, who have sold over 80 million albums, and have performed live to over 14 million people, have won 19 BRIT Awards, had 13 No.1 albums, 17 No. 1 singles, 8 MTV Europe Music Awards and five Ivor Novello awards are to release an album in November.

Hopefully Robbie doesn't bring bad luck to the release, like his own album Rudebox. Not many people know it, but EMI, the company behind the singer, recalled unsold copies of the record and shipped them to China to be used in street paving, roads and lighting. Seriously.

Robbie and the band fell apart in the mid-nineties after he fought battles with drugs, at which point he quit the pop super-group, which eventually split. They came back together in 2006 with a boom (and a host of songs that, in my opinion, were composed of pretty good music) and sold out tickets to their concerts in record time. Now, with Robbie back on the team, surely this will mean big bucks for the boys, along with a ton of publicity, airplay and support. There always was, somewhat, a divide between Take That fans who were for and against Robbie leaving, so who knows how this will go down.

Now composing of their original five members, will be the first time they've played together since 1990.

This should be a fairly interesting few months, and I eagerly await a listen to the new material, as many will. My fingers are crossed, however, that Rob's ego doesn't wreck the band.

You can check out the "official" video below. Note that Stuart Price, who has worked with Madonna, was producing the yet untitled album.