Zayn Malik is opening up about what life was like after shooting to fame with One Direction in his first interview in six years.
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Niall Horan opens up about One Direction’s immediate success after forming the band on “The X Factor” in 2010.
“Everyone was just in a state of shock the whole time,” he says on the upcoming episode of NBC News’ “Sunday Today with Willie Geist”.
“Looking at the first billboard in Times Square, you’re like, ‘Times Square? I’ve seen that in the movies,” he recalls. “There was always a bit of, ‘Where are we? How do we do this?’ And I think that was the best. I think that was what attracted a lot of people to the band.”
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He continues to share how the band dealt with fandom, which he says “snowballed very fast.
“I just think we never believed the hype…The state of shock was always there….We just kinda went from place to place worldwide and just kinda went along with it,” he tells Geist.
While it may have seemed “crazy” from the outside looking in, Horan says he and his former bandmates “were just having a good time…We always used to say [we’re] normal people doing an abnormal job.
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“You know, you have a moment every now and then like, ‘This is nuts.’ Thankfully that’s never gotten old.”
Horan’s full interview will air on NBC News’ “Sunday Today with Willie Geist” on June 25.
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Liam Payne is heading in a new direction!In a new YouTube video posted on Sunday, the former One Direction singer revealed that he is making his return following some time away from the public eye — and offline. «I just needed to take some time out for myself,» he shared. «Actually because I kinda became somebody that I didn't recognize anymore and I'm sure you actually didn't either.»Payne, 29, shared that his time away came after his interview on Logan Paul's podcast in 2022, where he made some comments about his time in One Direction and more specifically about ex-bandmate Zayn Malik, which triggered backlash online.«I'm not going to let anybody else take the blame for the stuff I said,» Payne told the camera.
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Niall Horan has said that he believes One Direction are still close because the band “never believed the hype”.The Irish musician, who released his third solo studio album ‘The Show’ earlier this month, parted ways with One Direction when they split in 2016.However, the band members – Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik – remain close, according to Horan.“I just think we never believed the hype,” Horan said in a new interview with Sunday TODAY, after host Willie Geist noted how the boy band avoided the “fire” that has damaged other groups in the past.He went on: “As I said, the state of shock was always there. You have to remember, it was us, our team, our bubble around us, and we just went from place to place worldwide and kind of went along with it.
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Niall Horan nets his second solo Number 1 album with The Show this week.
Can you believe it's been more than seven years since One Direction went on an indefinite hiatus? Since then, all five band members – Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Niall Horan – have launched successful solo careers, continuing the group's legacy as a global pop phenomenon.
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Niall Horan has set the stage to debut at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart this Friday with The Show.
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