Jade Thirlwall âghostedâ by Harry Styles after going on date as teenagers
Both Thirlwall and Styles found fame on ITV reality singing competition The X Factor.
Former Little Mix star Jade Thirlwall has revealed that Harry Styles âghostedâ her after the pair went on a date as teenagers.
Thirlwall, 32, who released her debut single last year, found fame on The X Factor in 2011 but had also auditioned the previous year, when Styles came third with boy band One Direction.
Appearing on The Louis Theroux Podcast, Thirlwall was asked about a video clip in which she looked âfairly blaseâ about Styles, according to Theroux, who said comments suggested she was giving him âthe side eyeâ.
Little Mix members Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards (Yui Mok/PA)
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âI didnât know he was gonna be THE Harry Styles, did I?â she told Theroux.
âI think we went on, like, one date when, again, when weâre, like, 16 or something.
âWe just got put in the band. And it was really funny, because we kept in touch.
âAnd then the minute they (One Direction) went on live shows, he didnât message me back and I thought âThatâs it now, heâs gone, heâs made itâ.
âAnd then I made it the next year and then I saw him in a room after, and he was, like, âIâm really sorry that I ignored youâ.â
Asked by Theroux if Styles had ghosted her, she said: âYes. But, again, I was so young, it didnât really matter. But he was always very, very lovely.â
Harry Styles with the Mastercard Album of the Year award at the Brit Awards at Londonâs O2 Arena in 2023 (Ian West/PA)
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Styles, 30, was in the popular boy band alongside Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik â who left in 2015 â before the group went on an indefinite break in 2016.
In October last year, Payne died in Argentina at the age of 31 after suffering multiple trauma and âinternal and external haemorrhageâ when he fall from a third-floor balcony of a hotel in the capital, Buenos Aires.
Little Mix, comprised of Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson and Thirlwall, were formed on The X Factor after the singers initially auditioned as solo acts, eventually becoming the first girl group to win the show.
The band, currently on a break, have had five UK number one singles and seven UK top 10 albums.
Nelson left the group in 2020, citing mental health struggles.