Little Mix singer Jade Thirlwall talks about his brief romance with Harry Styles.
While Thirlwall, 32, won the British version of the The X factor in 2011 as a member of Little Mix, she previously auditioned in 2010, the same year Styles, 30, auditioned as a soloist and went on to form One Direction.
“I think we went on one date … we were 16,” Thirlwall recalled during an interview on the Monday, Dec. 20 episode of “The Louis Theroux Podcast.”
“He was just brought into the group. It was really funny because we kept in touch and then the moment it went live he didn’t reply and I thought, ‘That’s it. He went away. He succeeded,” the “Angel of My Dreams” singer continued.
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Thirlwall said she and Stiles hit it off over the next year The X factor when he competed on the show with Little Mix. “I saw him in a room after (the show) and he said, ‘I’m really sorry I neglected you.’
Host Louis Theroux chimed in, “He ghosted you?” Thirlwall answered with a laugh, “Yes.”
Now, however, Thirlwall sees the funny side of things.
“But I was so young that it didn’t matter,” she said.
Thirlwall continued to compliment Singer of “Watermelon Sugar”.adding: ‘He’s always been very, very lovely. He got to where he is because he’s very talented and very handsome.”
By the time Thirlwall and Styles were out of range, her bandmate, Perry Edwardsdating a fellow Stiles bandmate Zayn Malikfor four years. The couple got engaged in 2013 but called it quits in August 2015.
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“From 17 to 21, I was in a relationship,” Malik said of her relationship with Edwards in a May 2024 interview. Nylon. “I was engaged. At that point I knew nothing about anything. I thought I did it because I was 21. I was legally allowed to do anything, but I didn’t know anything.’
“My parents were old school, so I never brought a girlfriend home or anything like that,” he added. “When I had the opportunity to do that, I jumped right in, two feet forward, and I was like, ‘I’m going to have a girlfriend and she’s going to live with me.’ That makes me a grown man.
After their breakup, Malik continue with Gigi Hadidwith whom he shares daughter Khai, 4. (The couple split in October 2021) Edwards shares son, Axel, 3with a football player Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
