WHEN One Direction leave the stage after their final full gig at Sheffield’s anything-but-glamorous Motorpoint Arena tonight, Simon Cowell will breathe a sigh of relief.
The tight-knit team around the world’s biggest band have been able to keep a lid on the tensions and personal animosities within 1D for the last three years — but only just.
Plucked from obscurity on The X Factor in 2010 and forced to work together, Liam Payne, 22, Harry Styles, 21, Niall Horan, 22, Louis Tomlinson, 23, and the now departed Zayn Malik, 22, were briefly best of friends, striving towards the common goal of becoming incredibly famous and even more rich.
Now for the first time The Sun reveals how bitter personal rivalries caused the fall of the biggest commercial band Britain has produced since The Beatles.
From day one I’ve been there to watch 1D’s unprecedented international success from behind the scenes — seeing first-hand how egos, temptations and a billion-pound business changed five ordinary young men with stars in their eyes.
The biggest issues in the band can be traced back over three years to an irreconcilable falling-out between their two most influential members, heart-throb Harry and highly-ambitious Louis.
While my Bizarre column has touched on the tension between the pair, the ferocity of their dislike has not been revealed until today.
It discusses Harry and Louis' hatred of each other, Liam having a backstage meltdown causing them to cancel shows, Harry's new group of friends, Louis being "an annoying little ****," etc. The Sun are usually v accurate with their 1D exclusives
I know loads of people will laugh at any directioners running in here to deny it but really this is all either complete BS or it's extremely, extremely exaggerated.
Yeah it's kinda obvious Louis and Harry had some kind of falling out (definitely broke up tbh ) but this Dan guy is being awful and exaggerating everything as per usual.
) but this Dan guy is being awful and exaggerating everything as per usual.
