
Little Combine singer Jade Thirlwall is opening up about her transient romance with Harry Styles.
Whereas Thirlwall, 32, gained the U.Okay. model of The X Factor in 2011 as a member of Little Combine, she beforehand auditioned in 2010, the identical yr Kinds, 30, auditioned as a soloist and went on to kind One Direction.
“I believe we went on, like, one date … we have been like 16,” Thirlwall recalled throughout an interview on the Monday, December 20, episode of “The Louis Theroux Podcast.”
“He’d simply obtained put within the band. It was actually humorous as a result of we stored in contact after which the minute they went on dwell reveals, he didn’t message me again and I assumed, ‘That’s it now. He’s gone. He’s made it,’” the “Angel of My Desires” singer continued.
Thirlwall stated she and Kinds bumped into one another the next yr on The X Issue when she was competing on the present with Little Combine. “I noticed him in a room after [the show] and he was like, ‘I’m actually sorry I ignored you.’”

Host Louis Theroux chimed in, “He ghosted you?” Thirlwall responded with amusing, “Sure.”
Nevertheless, Thirlwall now sees the humorous facet of issues.
“However I used to be so younger it didn’t actually matter,” she stated.
Thirlwall went on to go with the “Watermelon Sugar” singer, including, “He was at all times very, very pretty. He’s obtained himself to the place he’s as a result of he’s very proficient and he’s very pretty.”
Whereas Thirlwall and Kinds didn’t go the space, her bandmate, Perrie Edwards, dated Kinds’ bandmate, Zayn Malik, for 4 years. The couple obtained engaged in 2013 however referred to as it quits in August 2015.
“From 17 to 21, I used to be in a relationship,” Malik stated of his relationship with Edwards in a Could 2024 interview with Nylon. “I used to be engaged. I didn’t know something about something at that time. I assumed I did as a result of I used to be 21. I used to be legally allowed to do every thing, however I didn’t know s–t.”
“My mother and father have been form of old-school, so I by no means introduced a girlfriend dwelling or something,” he added. “After I obtained the prospect to do this, I jumped straight in, two ft first, and was like, ‘I’m going to have a girlfriend, and he or she’s going to dwell with me. This makes me a grown man.’”
Following their cut up, Malik moved on with Gigi Hadid, with whom he shares daughter Khai, 4. (The couple cut up in October 2021.) Edwards shares a son, Axel, 3, with soccer participant Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.