#xfactor 2011

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perrie then vs now

xfactor 2011 forget about us 2024

i’m so proud of pez 🥹 she’s came so far and smashed everything she’s completed it’s a honour to watch her grow up 🥹 she was a shy nervous girl and still has the nerves but her confidence has grown so much over the years of being in little mix and now stepping out as a solo artist! 💕 to think she had thoughts about leaving little mix because she couldn’t catch up with the dancing and didn’t have the confidence at all is heartbreaking because she is so talented. but i’m super proud that she went and proved herself wrong and rocked being in a girl band and now being solo is absolutely amazing. no one can do it like periwinkle! i love her so much ❤️❤️

[cliperry]

(x) Tatler loves One Direction

Scream! Cry! Wave your banner! One Direction have a film out and everyone has gone slightly loopy. Yes, even us. 'But Tatler, you're not teeny boppers,' we hear you cry. Au contraire, darling. Didn't you see our swoonsome shoot with those little guys back in October 2011? Didn't you spot Niall Horan at the Philip Treacy party in Bystander? Or Harry Styles at one of Tom Ford's many parties? Or Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson on the Tatler List? We love One Direction and we're not afraid to show it. So, for fellow Directioners out there, we have those photos in full.

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ITV2 aired a TV special that documented One Direction's journey from 2010-2011 after coming in third place on The X Factor, and releasing their debut album 'Up All Night' in the UK. The documentary follows Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Harry Styles as they enter The X Factor as solo artists until a turn of events gives them the opportunity to come together as a band. It shows their life during The X Factor, to the band releasing their debut single, 'What Makes You Beautiful'. All five members of One Direction travel across Europe to witness the huge impact they have overseas. They encounter screaming fans, perform, have signings, and talk about how excited they are to release their debut album. At the end, they return home to reflect on their new lives.

Released:

November 23, 2011 (UK - ITV2)

April 20, 2012 (CA - MuchMusic)

July 14, 2012 (US - Nickelodeon)

Directors: Ben Winston, Dee Koppang O'Leary

Production: Fulwell 73

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 - 00:28 TV Trailer

00:29 - 45:14 Documentary

45:15 - 49:52 Deleted Scenes

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Savan Kotecha, 1D's Xfactor Vocal Coach and songwriter from 2011-2012, posted about Liam's passing ❤️🕊

[watermelonsugacry]

Could you do a blurb showing how Harry and 1dbandmate!yn reacted over the years when asked in interviews if they were a couple?? please 🙏

Always Asked

A/N: been in a writing funk lately but i'm happy i got this one done since i miss writing and posting to you all!! 💚

SUMMARY: Snippets of interviews over the years from when YN and Harry were asked if they were dating. (3.4k)

GENRE: 1dbandmate!yn, famous!yn

SINCE 2010 masterlist

2011:

Never in a million years did YN ever think her dream career would start so soon. It’s only been a year since she auditioned for the XFactor and now she’s sitting at a table next to her bandmates as hundreds of fans go down the line to get a copy of their freshly signed album. 

With copious amounts of screaming comes along an abundance of questions thrown at the teenagers. Most of the time, it’s YN giving the screaming fans a beautiful smile, asking them how they are, and thanking them for their kind words before passing the signed CD case to Harry. With all the excitement in the air, she feels like she’s truly living the pop star lifestyle she’d seen many others live out.

“Hiya, love,” YN smiles at the preteen girl who’s practically vibrating with excitement at seeing the famous band. She also gives a polite greeting to the supportive dad of the young girl who has his hands on his daughter’s shoulders. “How are you? I love your shirt.”

She compliments, smiling at seeing the young girl wearing a shirt with YN’s face on it. 

“My dad got it for me for my birthday!” The little fan beams.

“Did he?” YN animatedly gasps with a smile. “Well, it was nice of him to take you over here, yeah?”

She signs the CD case with a heart over her name before sliding it over to Harry. His fingers brush over hers and the two of them catch each other’s gaze. A smile tugs on their lips before looking away just as quickly. 

“Are you two dating?” The young girl practically screams out, her eyes bouncing back and forth excitedly between YN and Harry. 

The two teenagers tense up, thrown off by the question in such a crowded place. Their management team is still media-training them and while they’ve learned so much already, they’re still getting used to taking what they’ve learned out into the field.

YN and Harry give each other a look, already knowing the answer but searching in one another’s eyes for maybe a smidge of something more.

“Lilly!” The dad scolds before letting out a chuckle. “Sorry about that.”

“Don’t be,” YN shakes her head with a smile, hoping it's convincing enough to not cause any suspicion. “Sorry Lilly, but Harry and I aren’t dating because quite frankly—” She beckons the little fan closer, cupping her mouth but still being loud so her bandmate can hear, “—he has cooties.”

Harry’s immediately furrowing his brows together and lets out a long and playful, “Hey!”

“Ew!” Lilly laughs, seeming satisfied with that answer before waving goodbye and walking towards the rest of the band.

Before they can dwell on what just happened, thankfully the next fan shuffles over for their own interaction and signed copy.

2012:

The band is at their first Brits Awards show and needless to say, they all got a little tipsy after their win. Their team didn’t even have time to give them a snack or water bottle to help sober them up a little bit before their backstage press interviews.

“Harry, how will you guys be celebrating tonight?” A journalist asks from the crowd.

“Erm,” Harry giggles to himself and it makes YN tipsily follow from her spot next to him. The hand that isn't gripping onto their award goes to cover her smile. “I think we’re just gonna hang out and stuff.”

“YN? Is there any lucky man whom you will be celebrating with?” Another voice in the sea of reporters asks.

“Nope,” YN raises her eyes with a tipsy smile and a slow shake of her head. She shakes her thumb towards her boys with a click of her tongue. “Just these lads.”

“Any lucky lad in particular? Perhaps a curly-headed one standing next to you?”

Almost as if it was planned, the two teenagers comically look beside each other, cranking their necks in playful search of who the intrusive lady was referring to.

“Me?” Harry dramatically questions, pointing to his chest with a bright, open-mouthed, dimpled smile gracing his face.

“Well, I mean he is part of the band, is he not?” YN sassily purses her lips together, her media-training to retain her “good girl” image slipping out of her alcohol induced brain. 

Thankfully, before anything could be escalated further by the tipsy girl, the intrusive press, or the snickering boys, a member from their management team instructs the audience to move onto another person.

2013:

“You guys have known each other for what seems like forever now and your bond with the rest of the guys is so strong...” 

YN reaches forward for a sip from her glass of water on the panel table in her seat in between Harry and Niall. It’s been a long week for the band as they do press for their new movie, This Is Us. They’ve been thrown left and right with interviews that YN can’t help but already be done with the repetitiveness of some of the questions.  

“So then we’re all clearly curious to know if you and Harry are dating?”

“Nope,” YN pops the ‘P’ and shakes her head as if her actions were automatically programmed to respond in that way. She casually waves her finger between the two boys beside her, “But him and Niall are though.” 

The crowd of press people laugh and chuckle as they see Naill gasp and Harry raise his eyebrows in playful shock.

“I mean, you kinda pointed it out,” YN puts on her media-trained smile good enough to win an Oscar. “These lads are like my brothers and our bond is so strong because we see each other more like family than anything else. I see them more as annoying than someone I'd rather date, to be honest,” she forces out a light laugh. 

“Plus, as YN so kindly pointed out,” Harry leans on his elbows on the table as he looks to his crush next to him. YN can see his dimple dig into his cheek as he fights off a smirk. “M’happily in a committed relationship with Niall.”

Harry doesn’t take his eyes off of his bandmate as he leans back into his seat. He watches as she tucks her chin into her chest, her fingers rubbing over her lips to cover her giggle as the rest of the room breaks out in commotion.

2014:

“Can we assume that the rock on your finger is from a certain curly-headed lad?” The woman who’s interviewing them for the band’s new book Who We Are excitedly asks. 

The band are all sat on an L-shaped couch as they discuss the contents of the hard cover book. Sat in between Zayn and Niall, YN purposely avoids her gaze from Harry as she answers.

“No,” YN lets out a forced chuckle as she looks down to fidget with the diamond ring on her finger. Anyone who has looked at more than three pictures of YN can tell that her favorite pieces of jewelry are her assortment of rings along her fingers. But only true fans know that part of her liking to the small jewelry is to help her fidget with them when she has anxiety. It’s an odd feeling however that the newly gifted one has been the cause of her increase in nerves. “It’s um, from me boyfriend—well, fiancé now—Matthew. Harry is like a brother to me so that would be quite weird.” 

“Of course! I was only teasing, love.” The woman laughs with an over-exaggerated smile, clearly disappointed in the answer she was given. “Congratulations to you both.”

“Thank you,” YN forces a smile, still twisting at the shiny ring that sticks out like a sore thumb.

2015:

“YN.”

“James.” She says with the same amount of playful seriousness, the audience in front of them laughs along. As the date of the band’s long-awaited hiatus comes closer and closer, their good friend James Corden interviews them in the same location where they filmed the music video for Story of My Life. 

“Harold,” the host directs his attention to the band member sitting next to her.

The fans in the crowd only giggle in giddiness even further as Harry playfully throws a hand up in confusion with what the fans call his ‘frog’ smile. 

“Now, we are all truly devastated when we heard the news that you and your long-time partner had called it quits a couple of weeks ago.” The audience laughs when James comically shakes his head no. YN even lets out a laugh when she sees the fans in the audience cheer at the news of her new relationship status. Despite the support she feels from the fans, it doesn’t necessarily calm the nerves at why the host brought the topic up in the first place. “Now we’re also all wondering if this may have possibly opened up, I don’t know, an opportunity for you to seek something with another lad?”

“Um,” YN lazily holds her microphone to her lips as she gives James the news that will hopefully shut down the conversation. “I think m’gonna just focus on myself for a bit. Yeh know, take a break from dating and all that.”

The room breaks out into chuckles when the host makes noises like he doesn’t believe her. He wags his interview cards in the air as he says, "I mean, both of your writing credits on some love songs tell me otherwise..."

Truthfully, the two friends can't deny that logic. They've either individually or co-wrote a plethora of love songs...that may or may not have been about each other. But will they ever admit that to a room full of their fans who have been shipping them since their XFactor days? Hello no.

“Well, the beauty that YN and I see in music is that songs are always up for interpretation," Harry interjects. "They can mean anything you want them to be, in any sort of scenario.”

“Yeah, like, lyrics don’t always necessarily have to come from a place of experience,” YN adds on, professionally keeping her voice from wavering in nervousness. “It certainly helps but that’s not always the case. Especially now.”

She can’t help but laugh along with the rest of the crowd as James holds an expression like he doesn’t believe a word they said.

“Okay, fine. Deny it all you want,” James puts his hands up defensively. “I just...I don’t know, I just think that this could really be Something Great.”

The room of fans (and die hard ynrry shippers) squeal and scream out in a mixture of excitement and disbelief from his use of the One Direction songs that are heavily speculated to be about YN and Harry. 

“Whatever, it’s your guy’s decision at the End of the Day,” James continues nonchalantly, trying to hide the smile that shows that he knows exactly what he’s doing. 

Fans’ eyes bounce back and forth between the two band members in question. They see as YN has her hands clasped together on her crossed legs, biting the inside of her cheek to keep her witty comments to herself. Harry, on the other hand, leans his elbow on his knee with his index finger over his smirk. He tries to cover up his chuckle with a cough to his fist before pushing back his long curls. 

“All we want is for you guys to live Happily ever after, is all.”

2017:

“Now, both of you little sneaky sneaks went to Jamaica together to make his album. Come on, tell me I’m wrong,” Nick Grimshaw teases, wiggling his fingers in a beckoning motion.

The two were currently on BBC Radio with their good friend that they’ve known since their days in the band. Dropping their first solo albums in the same week caused their fan bases to go into a frantic frenzy. The two have a full day ahead of them as their record labels and management teams paired the two up for a day jam-packed with press and interviews together.

“You are not wrong,” Harry laughs, adjusting the chunky headphones over his ears. He’s already rolled up his white button-up sleeves and discarded his picnic table-looking blazer to lay on the back of his chair.

“Sneaky sneaks?” YN chuckles next to him, leaning her elbows on the counter and moving her hips to rotate her swiveling seat from side to side.

“Well, I only say that because you guys are obviously dating now, right?”

“Do girl and guy best friends always have to be dating?” YN easily swerves the question back to the radio host.

“Well,” Grimmy tilts his head from side to side. “Not necessarily, but wouldn’t that be a good story? For your future kiddos perhaps?”

YN and Harry bark out a laugh.

“Sorry, m’getting ahead of myself. Maybe you lads would want to save that for your wedding day instead.”

“Can I swear on the radio?” YN playfully yet genuinely asks the host which makes Harry giggle.

“But I mean, what are your fans—and quite frankly, the rest of the world—supposed to think when a good majority of the songs on his album are about you, Miss Two Ghosts?” Nick teases with a wiggle of his eyebrow.

YN’s jaw humorously drops, a smile tugging at the corners of her lips as a nervous laugh threatens to escape. The two knew that they would get poked and pried with questions and accusations like this since their trip to Jamaica. There’s no use in trying to deny their close relationship with one another, spending more time with one another than any of their fellow band members since the start of the hiatus. 

Unable to quickly come up with an explanation, being so caught off guard, she turns to the only other person she can trust. 

“Jenny?” YN playfully calls for her manager who’s behind the glass window of the radio studio, leaning forward to look at her despite Harry in the way. 

“Help me, Jeffery,” Harry playfully pleads to his manager as well.

“No, no Jeffery. Jenny, get back in your chair, young lady.” Nick points out for the listeners who can’t see what’s currently happening. “Alright, I’ll stop, I’ll stop,” The host waves his hands, seeing the two visually calm down at the news. “Now, I’ll just play the one Harry wrote about YN. This is Two Ghosts!”

Harry playfully yells out an “Oh, no!” as he pushes himself away from the desk. YN lets out a humored scream at the same time, taking off her chunky radio headphones and tossing them onto the desk. 

2020:

“Okay, a big question that I’ve been getting on Twitter since it was announced that the two of you would be on here today,” Roman Kemp waves a hand in front of him at the Capital FM Breakfast Radio headquarters as he looks onto the two pop stars in front of him on the Zoom call. The couple can be seen in two separate rooms: Harry in a naturally lit room while YN sits against one of the brick walls in her bedroom.

Harry has his purple robe on that his girlfriend gifted him a couple of years ago, looking as comfy as ever since he doesn’t have to get dressed up to go outside for anything lately due to being on lockdown. 

YN on the other hand, didn’t want to miss the opportunity to get dolled up. Well, at least from the waist up. She wears one of her silk button-up blouses with her last name embroidered on the left chest, her hair neatly done up in a slick ponytail and her make-up nicely done. When she got complimented on her look, she clumsily lifted her leg up to show off her heart-decorated, fluffy pajama pants.

“And I feel like both of your fan bases combined would come out of quarantine to quite literally murder me if I don’t ask you guys this...” YN and Harry keep a mutual face on as they wait to hear what the host has to say. “We all know that you guys are an official couple now, but are you guys physically staying together at the moment? Like, are you guys living together or at the same house or...?”

The couple takes a second to process the intimate question. As Harry parts his lips to answer, he’s interrupted by his girlfriend speaking first. 

“Y’know, we’re kind of tired of getting questions like this. I don’t think it’s really appropriate for other people to know about that kind of stuff,” The crease between YN’s eyebrows becomes more apparent and her shoulders move sharply after letting out a deep sigh.

“Oh, I-I’m so sorry if I offended you guys—” The radio host quickly begins to retract.

“M’sorry but I think m’actually gonna log off now. Erm, thank you for having us.” YN curtly nods before the host and Harry’s faces fill the screen, both with wide eyes at the unexpected reaction from the go-happy pop star.

“Wait, did that really just happen?” Roman and the other two interviewers are deers in headlights, his eyes bouncing around the screen to make sure what just took place. 

“I think so,” Harry sighs. “It’s just a sensitive topic for us, y’know. I can’t really blame her for what she did,” He professionally hides his smile as he hears the quick pad of footsteps coming down her spiral staircase.

“I really meant no harm, it’s just—”

“It’s just really hard to keep our private life private, you know?” Harry drags on with a deep sigh. “And it's just really hard for us to have to answer things like this. Like, we don’t really know what you guys expect us to do when...” Harry’s dimples dig into his cheeks, a boyish giggle comes tumbling past his lips when YN peaks her head sideways in front of his laptop camera.

“YN!” Romans scolds with a bright smile, infinitely relieved he didn’t just make enemies with the world’s favorite female pop star. He dramatically throws a hand over his heart.

“Sorry, I’m sorry! It was just too good and Ro, I think you’re the only one that would be able to handle a joke like that.” YN laughs as she slides in close to her comfy-looking boyfriend.

“So I’m assuming this confirms my previous question?” The host asks excitedly.

“Yeah,” Harry smiles fondly at his love, discreetly wrapping an arm around her waist that’s low enough to not be shown on camera. “We’ve been living at YN’s place in LA for a couple of weeks now. And yeah, it’s been fun.”

2022:

In a full black suit, Harry is escorted to the next interviewer on the red carpet for the premiere of My Policeman. After a couple of initial questions, the eager woman asks, “Last thing before you get whisked away, on behalf of the fandom and everyone else on this planet, we just want to send a massive amount of love to you and YN.”

“Thank you very much,” He nods, putting a hand over his heart and trying his hardest to keep the growing smile on his face at bay. 

“And we are all just dying to know,” She takes a quick, excited glance back to the camera. “If you’re going to drop the big question soon?”

Harry can’t help but huff out a laugh, the kind where his dimples dig into his cheeks and the crows feet appear next to his eyes. If they only knew that YN kept the ring he gave her—the ring that signifies their promise to become husband and wife on their anniversary—at home for the sake of privacy and for this very reason. 

“Um,” He looks up in fake contemplation before giving her a cheeky shrug. “I dunno. Maybe. Maybe not. Who knows?”

“Well, best of luck to you both.”

After being escorted away, the camera doesn’t stop filming Harry as he goes over to stand next to his fiancée on the red carpet. Although the camera can’t pick up what YN says to Emma Corin that makes the actress laugh, her beaming smile turns to Harry when she feels his hand on her back. He can’t hold back from planting a loving peck on her cheek before the two are escorted to their next section on the red carpet. 

2023:

On a show in Cardiff, Harry adjusts a flag on his shoulder as he walks around the catwalk on stage. As he begins to sing Satellite, he makes a stop to sing to a group by the barricade. 

It’s nothing new to YN and Harry’s respective shows when fans bring signs with something on it to get the artists’ attention. Honestly, it’s become one of the parts of the show they look forward to the most.

So when Harry’s eyes move over to a newly raised sign that says ‘shag?’ on it, he breaks out into a smirk. Part of the fun of when fans bring signs is that there’s always a handful that asks these sorts of questions: Are you single? Can I have your number? Are you dating? 

It’s not so much the content written on the signs that makes the interaction so enjoyable; it’s the response that he gives. 

Because all Harry does is break out into that dimpled, love sick smile that YN can’t get enough of and happily points to his wedding band.

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11/12/2011

@KateLucey_: So who's gonna do a Harry Styles and be the one who whispers 'think of all the cock' to the winner? OH. NOBODY. THIS YEAR IS SHIT. #xfactor

08/03/2012

@KateLucey_: Today @chris_allen is dressed like Louis Tomlinson. Sometimes he dresses as Harry Styles. It's enthralling.

01/02/2021

@KateLucey_: Harry Styles' birthday is a lovely reason to post this CRINGE video of my first interview with him 9 years ago, where we were both immature and I just wanted him to tell me his favourite word for boobs (which he did) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxHYFGHGN3Q

Interviewer who conducted the Mario Kart Interview, the Niall interview where you hear "Lou can I give you a blowjob?" and the one when Harry said "I like girls" and everyone went ?????

[foxes-that-run]

I just read that Ed liked taylor? I think they mean around the time they wrote songs together (red era) did ed know taylor before harry?

The short answer is if he ever did there was nothing to it - because they both knew Harry first. Ed has a nice neat quote to TVNZ in March 2013 which should be the end of it because Ed is decent:

''I've got to be honest because one of my best friends did date her. I'm not that kind of guy. But the fact that people believed it impressed me a little bit.''

However, this is tumblr so lets get into it:

Haylor / Sweeran timeline AKA why Sweeran was always platonic.

Ed and Harry met first.

Ed said they met "way" before WMYB was released on 11 September 2011. Ed said to the Spout Podcast:

“I’ve known Harry since I was 19 and he was 16. When we both started there was a guitarist called Chris Leonard we both knew who I wrote ‘Lego House’ and ‘Give Me Love’ with,” [...]“‘What Makes You Beautiful’ went No. 1, [my album] ‘+’ went No. 1 the same day and we’re both staying at the house at that point.

That narrows their meeting at Chris Leonard's house down to December 2010 (after x-factor) till they both turned 17 & 20 in February 2011. To Zane Lowe Ed said it was right after xfactor and they met up in Fulham, presumably to find writers for Up all Night after they were signed. In the below video it does sound soon after x-Factor:

I just started hanging out with Harry [Styles] back when I was living on my friend Chris’s sofa—Chris played guitar for those boys. There was another sofa there, and sometimes I’d wake up and this floppy-haired dude would be asleep on it. I just knew him as Harry. I didn’t watch The X Factor, so I had no idea what One Direction was. This was before they’d even released a single. We started hanging out. Chris said, ‘I’m in a boy band,’ and I was like, ‘Cool, safe, man.’

Nina

At some point in 2011 Ed breaks up with his teenage girlfriend Alice who is private and he said x is mostly about. In August 2011 Ed met Nina Nesbitt at a radio gig in Edinburgh who he dated for the next year and wrote Photograph and Nina about.

Taylor has lyrics of Lego House for arm lyrics in Sydney

The Sweeran timeline starts on 10 March 2012 when Taylor had Lego House lyrics—“If things go right, we can frame it and put you on a wall” for her arm lyrics at the Allphones Arena in Sydney, Australia. They then meet for a songwriting session 'soon' after. They were both on tour so ‘soon’ was 2 months later. Before this One Direction was already deferring to Harry when asked about Taylor in interviews (x, x)

Harry and Taylor met at the Kids Choice Awards 31 March 2012

This is well covered, they were immediately linked with the 1D boys teasing Harry about it (x, x, x). Harry and Ed were already close at this point, Ed was writing for One Direction and focused on becoming (more) famous. This is the point that even if Ed had had a crush on Taylor it's unlikely he would have followed up personally or professionally. As he said:

“When I first met Taylor I was in a relationship and she was in a relationship and we just formed a friendship through that,“ he said. "And both our relationships ended and we just carried on being friends. There’s nothing I really want more than friendship there. I know her very very well now and she knows me very very well.”

Haylor lore continues with Harry kissing a girl in NZ and Taylor writing IKYWT about it. 1D return to London.

Ed and Taylor finally meet

Ed and Taylor met on 15 May 2012 at the Ritz Carlton in Nashville when they write Run and both tweet and give lots of interviews about how instantly they clicked.

They cite their managers introducing them. Even if they did they would have had an elephant in the room of their very close mutual friend who they chose to write about.

A week later they meet again in LA and write Everything Has Changed. Taylor said to The Country Daily:

"His music video was playing in Australia when I was on tour there and I loved his voice and the way he sings and the way he crafts his songs," Taylor says. "I came back to the States and I said to my management company, 'I really want to work with this guy,' and they said, 'That's really funny because we just got a request from him to write with you.' It just worked out perfectly. I met up with him at one of his shows and we wrote some songs that day. He came to California and we wrote some more songs. The one that made the album is a duet called 'Everything Has Changed."

This is where the Haylor timeline collides again, Harry returned to LA and there was a short lived something. There is more on this in the Everything Has Changed post. On 16 June 2012 - the Ex'pression Session, (21:30) a fan suggested Ed propose to Harry, Ed responded "Nah, he's taken", someone joked 'by Lous' and Ed laughed 'innit'. However it was short-lived and Conor Kennedy happened in July.

Haylor gets back together.

On September 6 2012 Haylor were seen together with Ed and bandmates. Popstar reported “Harry and his bandmates watched Taylor’s final MTV Video Music Awards rehearsal. The couple later enjoyed a post-show meal at LA’s Katsuya with a group that included their mutual friend Ed Sheeran and Taylor’s bandmates.”

On 13 October 2012 Harry and Taylor go to Ed’s show in London. Ed shares a tour diary on 1 Jan with a video of him laughing and Taylor can be heard laughing off screen (1:55). Ed got Red tattoo in the video also.

Ed was at the One Direction MSG show and karaoke after party with Taylor and 1D. Ed continued to show up for them, writing songs about them, connected them with Snow Patrol and Courtney Cox of it all. posts about their songs:

Run - Red

Everything Has Changed - Red

Four: 18

Tenerife Sea - Ed Sheeran

Thinking out loud - Ed Sheeran

End Game - Reputation

For the rest of the story Ed is in the role of wing-man to them both, then Taylor is for Ed when he finally starts dating Cherry.

Ed has consistently been a supportive friend to them both and spoken about having a real friendship away from the press. I will end with this interview of Ed's at the 2013 Brit Awards, when Ed had been on the Red Tour and he was asked if Ed trusted Harry with his girlfriend, his response sums it up:

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#xfactor #2011 #takethat #takethat5

#garybarlow #markowen #robbiewilliams #howarddonald #jasonorange #barlowthursday

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[youcouldstartacult]

I actually have always kind of thought he’d be a coach on the voice eventually just not necessarily the US version and not necessarily at this point in time, besides the reasons you mentioned of money, free time, and previous experience on a similar show, I knew it would be something he’d consider doing because he’s always been supportive of other people in the industry like his whole history with Lewis or even how back in 2011 he’d tweet about how people should vote for Little Mix or how he’d reached out to Olivia when driver’s license got huge incase she wanted advise on like how to handle it etc like he’s just that type of person so it’s kind of a natural fit and then there’s like all the people he knows who have been coaches before on various versions (Anne-Marie, Olly Murs, Danny from McFly, Camila, Ariana, Nick and Joe) and obviously Louis did that one season of the xfactor where Niall even showed up to the final or whatever it was of so he’s probably heard from some of them how much they enjoy doing it

“he’s just that type of person so it’s kind of a natural fit” definitely agree. as someone who grew up watching the voice with my family, it always seemed so much fun!!! like making a team and getting to pick out the songs and stuff, it really seems like something a lot of musicians would enjoy. i never thought about it in regard to him, but it’s not the most surprising choice in the world, no.

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3.25.24 Monday

1 am

I have windblow.....Did Mitchang give me a "simple battery" since 2007? Where is she???

I feel bitterish.... I wanna leave the hometown... I wanna get a bf... I wonder where is Mark? I feel bitter having windblow for nothing... It is like "aging for nothing"...I feel so invalid... It is a bad feeling for yourself that you feel so " invalid".

I feel bitter, nobody wants me....Sometimes it is so good to go back to the past... Though, you wanted a good future but I can't exist...

But! Again, I will feel HURT if Mark is just nearby after all these years, if he is just observing or if he is just one of the people who are laughing at me being poorish these days, I will feel HURT!

17 years I lost myself... I wasn't able to grow on my own, I feel offended...I didn't feel important for 17 years... A lot of people thought I didn't have maturity but year 2011, I was really mature and fully awakened by everything.

I just feel a loser on my exes, coz those 17 years so many things could happened to all my exes and most specially on Mark, probably they already had have a child and just simply looking at me here, laughing at me... I feel HURT... My EGO is smashed and my pride is killed for 17 years.

I lost xfactor for 17 years and I feel invalid, having this windblow and I feel that someone gave me that and this "simple battery" and they created a group and they invited people to join them and some old friends became a member and some new... Worst!!! If my exes are just nearby laughing at me...

People doubt my maturity since 2011, I was really fully awakened but I couldn't get progress... They judged me....I always wanted to be forever young coz I missed a lot in life.

7:49 am

Uncle DD is here for something he just gave me 50 to buy coffee but I ask him extra... So that I can pay Ely but he said he doesn't have extra...

Still, strange feeling on them...

9:01 am

Uncle DD gave extra for food coz last food tomorrow...

I'm thinking of my own life... I need extra fundings....I'm not satisfied being "just like this".

I really wanna see my old bf coz my situation is really a flat tire, unfairly flat tire since 2007.Mark for the chismosas and chismosos and pakilameroz or unfairly interfering. Mark was my personal bf and the rest... But I feel weird if Mark is somewhere nearby....I feel hurt for getting my links...

10:16 am

This is just for food... Back to zero my back-up on Ely but I ask him a 200 plus coz I wanted to buy a serum in Lazadah.

Nana requested for lugaw and mami and coconut milk for something... The left money is mainly for food...

10:47 am

I really wanna leave Cavite... I feel so down and I can't get progress...

10:52 am

I feel offended in Cavite....I really wanna see Mark but I will feel hurt if he is just nearby and fucked by Vagina's here or from any particular group that I don't belong.

I have windblow... 17 years I can't wait for more years...

12:46 noon

I still have windblow... I feel bitter...

Once a guy snap on me, I wanna kill him! I was spoiled... Mark knew... I feel bad if he snap on me? Did he snap on me? Or did someone snap on me on words at my back that they didn't invite me since they are all together since 2007???

It is unfair to snap on me, verbally that I can't defend myself... Did they snap on me???

1:13 pm

I feel bitter... I'm not happy!!! I don't like fooling around... It is too long for their own happiness... They are all fooling around for so long and trapping me... I'm fucking tired of waiting... I don't like fooling around!!!

2:44 pm

I just bought an another food for couple of days coz I back to zero my back-up from Ely... I bought a lugaw and mami and sachet of shampoo for few days and 1 coffee sachet. The money is gone....The rest for the water...

I feel bitter....I asked help from Ely that I wanted to buy a serum around 300, I feel bitter...I was spoiled and I didn't harm anybody since 2007.

I wanted a future,I wanted a career....I wanted someone who can accept me that I'm spoiled! I deserve a nose perfection and other vanity.

17 years if that fucking group didn't interfere, I have a better life now...

Now, I wanna see Mark, I have so many questions for him... I will feel hurt if he is just nearby observing me and laughing at me since 2007??? They are prepared now? Gets? Look at me now, my ugly situation...

There is no extra for vanity!!! I wanted my future...I wanted a new circle of upper friends...I'm so tired being at the bottom...

Have mercy on me!!! I deserve a LIFE!

4:54 pm

I still have windblow....I hate being a supporter, they pull me down their stategy is to trap me unfairly...

Breaker in the universe mga "green monster"....Those are INC's I hate them... Breaker in the universe??

I wanna leave Cavite... I feel bitter...

I lost circle of friends where I can be Kate-Like? Where is Mitch? Did she give that "simple battery"???

7:53 pm

I have windblow... I feel bitter.... I hate being the "new girl" always...How can I be Kate-Like, if I don't have a circle that is truly mine... I feel so low even on Mark, if he found out that I'm s7o alone and a lot are just fakers on me...I don't know if Mark snap or snapped on me???

I wanna leave Cavite,they don't like me from the start... They are together since 2007...Where are they???

8:40 pm

I feel bitter... I feel out of place on somewhere... I still have windblow... I feel like the "new girl" which I hate it so much...

I badly need Mark now, I'm tired 17 years it is totally unfair... I hate being "the new girl"....

[cliperry]

HEAT'S EXCLUSIVE ONE DIRECTION MONTH - WEEK FIVE: HARRY STYLES

"I've got four nipples."

JW: What's your nickname? Curly.

Loves? Sleep and food. I like fine dining, like at The Ivy—the shepherd's pie there is unbelievable.

Hates? Smoking, drugs, and Niall's farting.

Favourite position? Missionary? No, I’m joking.

Describe yourself naked in just three words... A bit disappointing.

If you were invisible for the day, what would you do? I’d like to say something cool, but I’d probably run into a girls’ changing room at least once.

Blonde, brunette, or redhead? I’m really not fussed. Most of my girlfriends have been blonde, but a good brunette is always nice.

Legs, boobs, or bum? All of them. But I’m more into legs and bums.

Skinny or curvy? Curvy—so there’s more to grab onto!

When did you have your first kiss, and who was it with? I can’t actually remember. I think it was with a girl at school when I was 11.

Do you have any distinguishing marks on your body? I’ve got four nipples. I think I must have been a twin, but then the other one went away and left its nipples behind.

When were you last naked? This morning after my shower... and then twice afterward. (Smiles) I like these questions—they’re a lot more daring than we’re used to!

Do you prefer being single or in a relationship? I don’t know. I do quite like having a girlfriend, as it’s nice to have someone to spoil.

Have you ever dumped anyone by text or email? If I said "no," I feel I would be lying. I think I’ve done it on the phone.

What’s your favourite part of a girl’s body? A flat, smooth stomach is always nice.

Where would you take Heat on a date? Wherever Heat would like to go! Maybe we’d go to The Ivy, as the food’s nice there and it’s got a good atmosphere.

And what would we have for pudding? I don’t know—whatever "afters" she’d let me give her!

Rate yourself out of ten for looks, personality, and sense of humour.

For looks: I’ll give myself a generous seven.

Personality-wise: I’ll go for eight because I’m a hoot! I have an extremely morbid tone, which is very good for being sarcastic. (Laughs)

Sense of humour: I’ll give myself a nine.

One Direction are official ambassadors for Nintendo's Pokémon Black and White Pokédex 3D.

HEATWORLD.COM - 14 OCTOBER 2011

[foxes-that-run]

Harry's temper trap tattoo was first seen 16 June 2012, exactly 1 year and 1 day after Taylor had arm lyrics of the same song in St Paul Minnesota on 15 June 2011. Harry also tweeted the same line Taylor wrote on her arm in April before he got the tattoo.

One Direction had a one week break over the week with this show, Harry was not seen in that break until One Direction met again in L.A..

But they met at The Kid Choice Awards 31 March 2012 you say?

To Vanity Fair, a source close to Taylor said that Harry has pursued Taylor for a year before they started dating. They had a few opportunities to have met before that St Paul show, I have a 2011 timeline here:

25-30 January - One Direction in L.A. to meet writers and producers

17 - 31 March - Taylor (Speak Now Tour) and One Direction (Xfactor Tour) both in London, and both played the O2 arena on the 20th and 30th March 2011.

Wednesday 23 March, Taylor wore a white dress, (Begin Again?)

12- 30 June - One Direction has a break, Harry not seen until L.A on the 20th. Taylor also free 13 - 16th other than that show.

17 June - In the Lover Journal Taylor Wrote:

“Something so unexpected and amazing happened recently... I’ve become blissfully happy with my life. Like, actually grateful for every second of the day. I've notice this onset for a while, but it's really hit me in the last week and especially since I wrote those 2 new songs. I'm happy I get to meet so many people on the road who make me feel like my music really matters to them.”

But Harry said "We met in America and she's very nice"

They may well have, One Direction was in L.A. meeting industry people in January 2011, so it's plausible. However, in the interview he said this he is also visibly taken aback by the question.

The pause is so long while he thinks of what to say that the interviewer comments on it. They were seen at the same event on T.V. 2 weeks earlier. I suspect his thought process was "**** how do they know? Oh - the Kids Choice awards" before answering (1:30 in)

Bonus fact

Harry's 1 July 2018 show, 2 weeks after the 7 year anniversary of that show - in the same Arena, (the Xcel Energy Centre in St Paul) is one of his best Live on Tour shows.

*Storytime*

This is Taylor and Harry’s “Sweet Disposition” story.

Unfortunately they broke up before his birthday and she never got to give it to him. She did post this picture a year or two later on his birthday I think.

You can see the lyrics that the band wrote and signed.

In 2016 Harry wrote a song with Megan Trainer called “Someday” and he mentions it.

I love this little story. To me it proves that what they had was real & not PR.

[srldesigns6277]

Hey Sam,

I’m wondering if you could give us (I’m hoping I’m not alone with these lacunae) a quick overview of the 1D tours in chronological order, album they were promoting AND the aesthetics (that sofa? the cartoon graphics? the jungle gym stage?). It’s still a bit of a “long time ago” jumble for me… and I can kinda tell by how long Harry’s hair is or how flowery his outfits when something happened, but I’ve never sat down to piece it together. And the way I imagine you to be, you’ll just know it off the top of your head!

If it’s no trouble, of course.

Many thanks in advance (hehe!)

Ailo

Hey Ailo <3,

So I am going to make this small so it fits better. So before we had Up All Night, which was their first album in 2011, that started with WMYB as its main single, One Direction was on the XFactor Tour, which ran from February to April of 2011. They didn't really have any special arrangements for their stage there because they were not the only act performing.

Following the release of Up All Night in November of 2011, the boys embarked on their Up All Night Tour in December 2011, with the UK and Ireland tour. They spent the first half of the year on this Tour, going around the world and touring with Big Time Rush in the United States. This was the tour that had the boys sitting on a couch. It also had plenty of silly moments due to the introduction of Twitter questions.

This tour went on until July of 2012, which was in line with the next release. LWWY came out in August of 2012, leading to a massive push to break the United States with Little Things in October and a set of concerts in Madison Square Garden in December 2012.

The next tour was the Take Me Home Tour which was named after the album that came out in Nov. 2012. The tour began on 23 February 2013 in London, England, and concluded on 3 November 2013 in Chiba, Japan. This was the tour of the crazy superhero graphics and the floating stage between the A stage and B stage in the crowd.

The final stage set was the massive jungle gym-looking set used for the Where We Are tour and the On The Road Again Tour. It featured a bunch of insane-looking pathways to run around on and a B stage that rose from stage level to about a story up so the entire stadium could see them. This stage was used during the stadium tours, with its massive screens and walkway allowing the boys to run around and be seen by everyone. The behind-the-scenes for the movie from San Siro shows just how huge the stage was. The stage colors changed from red to blue and yellow between the two tours.

[2tiedships2]

December 10, 2011

[smallblueandloud]

also just like, there's gotta be some fascinating things about emma frost and motherhood. i know she wasn't even confirmed as ruby's mother until a few years ago, long after ruby's most recent comics appearance (aka her only comics appearance), but i'm still just. emma frost has such an interesting flavor of womanhood, the Permanently Childless, Doesn't Need A Man, Stone-Cold Bitch flavor, and i am FASCINATED by how that would change if/when she decided to have a child.

which is another question! the split between timelines is theoretically the "six minute war", at least according to the marvel wiki -- nothing to do with emma or scott. why does she agree to have a child in those circumstances, when she would likely never agree to have one in earth-616? for god's sake, in her "dream life" from house of m (which, at least theoretically, fulfills her greatest wishes -- a five-pound grain of salt is of course required because it was a major crossover event), she and scott have no children, and that's in a perfect world where the mutant cause requires nothing from them!

maybe it's when the mutant cause requires so much from them -- maybe it's when the world is so fucked up that there's not even any societal capital for emma to gather. maybe then is when she finally takes what she wants for herself. i don't know! but it would be cool to think about it some more.

[foxes-that-run]

Niall was a fan of Taylor's for sure. Probably even before the band. Even went to watch a concert on the Red tour. I sooo wish Taylor picked Niall for the Lover remix instead of Shawn, but she's historically never been good when it comes to collabs... (There are a few exceptions like the Bon Iver and Zayn collabs, though)

There's also a video of Zayn doing a cover of You Belond With Me way before he met her. I don't know if it was before the band or at the very beginning, but it's adorable none the less.

Omg that’s amazing thank you so much!! It looks like maybe just before xfactor? The earliest I can see it posted is 2011 but I think it’s before that. The song came out in 2009