Just before Liam Payne’s unexpected death, The X Factor was looking back at how One Direction got its start. The group finished third in season 7 of the UK hit music competition show in 2010, and with ...

One Direction and Simon Cowell have a whole lot of history. The founding members of the boy band — Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson — initially auditioned for The ...

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The X Factor finalists are once again storming the UK singles chart with their annual charity release. This year, the current crop cover Rose Royce's classic 'Wishing on a Star', with the added bonus ...

One Direction's domination of culture in the early 2010s was total, whether they were selling out shows or just goofing off backstage. After five years in the group, Malik announced his departure in ...

“I was so young, it didn’t really matter but he was always very, very lovely,” the singer told podcast host Louis Theroux Latoya Gayle joined PEOPLE as an Associate Editor in 2024. Her work has ...