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Harry Styles & Taylor Russell Split After Less Than a Year of Dating
Jade Thirlwall and Harry Styles person past together.
The Little Mix alum didn't clasp backmost recounting their glory days connected The X Factor, sharing that she and the Grammy victor had a small fling erstwhile they auditioned for the U.K. mentation successful 2010.
"We went connected similar 1 day erstwhile we were 16 oregon something," Jade said connected the Jan. 20 occurrence of The Louis Theroux Podcast, explaining however Harry had conscionable been "put successful a band" that aboriginal turned retired to beryllium One Direction.
While she didn't marque the chopped that season, Jade said she and Harry "kept successful touch" portion helium competed alongside bandmates Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne.
"The infinitesimal they went connected unrecorded shows, helium didn't connection maine back," she noted of Harry. "And I thought, 'That's it now, he's gone. He made it.'"
However, their paths crossed again the pursuing twelvemonth erstwhile Jade returned to The X Factor, this clip arsenic portion of a miss radical with Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson and Leigh-Anne Pinnock. Recalling however One Direction had been invited connected the amusement to perform, Jade said she and Harry ran into each different backstage.
"I saw him successful a country aft and helium was like, 'I'm truly atrocious that I ignored you,'" she shared, laughing aft host Louis Theroux quipped that she had been "ghosted" Harry.
"I was truthful young," the 32-year-old added. "It didn't truly matter."
In fact, Jade said the "Watermelon Sugar" vocalist was "always really, truly lovely" during their clip auditioning for The X Factor.
"He gotten himself wherever helium is due to the fact that he's precise talented," she raved. "He's precise lovely, precise charming."
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But Jade isn't the lone Little Mix subordinate with midnight memories astir One Direction. After all, her bandmate Perrie dated Zayn for 4 years earlier the mates called disconnected their engagement successful 2015.
"From 17 to 21, I was successful a relationship," Zayn recalled successful an interrogation with Nylon past year, reflecting connected his plans to get joined to the fellow X Factor alum. "I was engaged. I didn't cognize thing astir thing astatine that point. I thought I did, due to the fact that I was 21. I was legally allowed to bash everything, but I didn't cognize s--t."
Looking back, Zayn—who is present dada to 4-year-old girl Khai with ex Gigi Hadid—believes the engagement was his effort to beryllium to himself that helium was each grown up.
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"My parents were benignant of old-school, truthful I ne'er brought a woman location oregon anything," helium explained. "When I got the accidental to bash that, I jumped consecutive in, 2 feet first, and was like, ‘I'm going to person a girlfriend, and she's going to unrecorded with me. This makes maine a grown man.'"
To revisit One Direction's astir OMG moments, support reading.
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They've Got the X Factor
Despite winning implicit audiences astir the world, the set finished successful 3rd spot down Rebecca Ferguson and Matt Cardle successful 2010.
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Live From New York
The U.K. set made their Saturday Night Live debut successful 2012 with an electrical show of their azygous "One Thing."
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Winning Big astatine the 2013 VMAs
The set took location the coveted moonman trophy for Best Song of the Summer for their opus "Best Song Ever."
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Hitting the Big Screen
The set gave fans a behind-the-scenes look astatine unrecorded connected the roadworthy of their This Is Us Tour with their performance documentary movie This Is Us.
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Music Royalty
While attending the Royal Variety Performance successful November 2014, the set met Prince William and Kate Middleton.
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Where They Are
The band's Where We Are Tour was the highest-grossing circuit of 2014, beating retired Justin Timberlake, The Rolling Stones, Katy Perry arsenic good arsenic Beyoncé and Jay-Z's tours that year.
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One Direction Minus One
In March 2015, Malik announced that helium was leaving the band to motorboat his solo career.
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End of an Era
After releasing 2015's Made successful the A.M. arsenic a foursome, Styles, Payne, Horan and Tomlinson announced that One Direction would instrumentality an indefinite hiatus.
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Fatherhood
Tomlinson became a father to his lad Freddie Reign successful 2016. One twelvemonth later, Payne welcomed his son Bear Grey with ex Cheryl Cole.
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Reunion?
In 2020, fans suspected that a reunion of sorts was underway erstwhile Styles, Payne, Tomlinson and Horan each started pursuing Malik connected X—then known arsenic Twitter—again.
Further fueling reunion rumors, Payne told The Sun astatine the time, "We've got a 10-year day coming up truthful we've each been speaking unneurotic a batch implicit the past fewer weeks which has been truly nice."
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Another 1D Baby
Malik and his then-girlfriend Gigi Hadid welcomed daughter Khai in September 2020.
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Friends First
Payne attended the London premiere of Tomlinson's 2023 documentary All of Those Voices.
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