Howard también tiene stalkers

TAKE That hunk Howard Donald has been bombarded with hate mail from an obsessed female fan.

Now he plans to hire Beyoncé Knowles’s ex minder known as Shorty.

Howard, 39, who wowed the crowds with his fellow band members at London’s O2 Arena on New Year’s Eve, has had to rethink his security after a woman known as Kendra has started following him.

An insider said: “Howard is no stranger to fan mail – especially from females – but this woman Kendra is something else altogether.

“It started several months back when she started sending him letters telling him she was his future wife. This woman went everywhere the band did – and she literally turned up at every hotel where the band were staying on tour. Lately she has become really nasty and some of the things she says in her letters are plain evil. As well as threats to kill if she doesn’t get her own way, she writes all sorts of kinky stuff that she wants to do to Howard. It’s like she is completely fixated with him. So the other band members Mark Owen, Jason Orange and Gary Barlow told Howard he needs someone like Shorty."

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“After all, you’re not going to mess with him are you?’ We’d be inclined to agree.

Weighing almost 400lb and with a girth as wide as a house, we’d definitely not mess with the man Beyoncé, 25, once claimed was more famous than her.

Take That are no strangers to stalkers and had to step up security last month after being targeted by a drunk woman who became obsessed with Jason. Not that we can blame women for being weak at the knees.

When Jason sang Wooden Boat at the O2 there were females practically fainting and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. What a welcome to 2008.