Sure, swarms of pre-teen girls are smitten with boy band One Direction, but there’s one middle-aged British man who matches their obsessive devotion. Desborough is no stranger to the media blitz. He ...

Simon Cowell pulled One Direction together in 2010 after Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne had each auditioned as solo artists on The X Factor UK. Better together, ...

One Direction came out with a song called 'No Control' on the album 'Four.' What is the song really about? Find out what the band members had to say about the song, inside. But another song took the ...

This story is adapted from Everything I Need I Get From You: How Fangirls Created the Internet As We Know It, by Kaitlyn Tiffany. Gabrielle Foster had been a fan of One Direction since she was 11 ...

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"I’m so happy that for 5 years we made such a great soundtrack to life," the singer wrote on Instagram Dave Benett/Getty Images; Karwai Tang/WireImage Liam Payne is feeling nostalgic for his boy band ...

Liam Payne, a former member of the preeminent 2010s boy band One Direction, died on October 16 at the age of 31. In his short and fairly troubled post-1D career, he never fully slotted into his own ...

"I’m so happy that for 5 years we made such a great soundtrack to life," the singer wrote on Instagram Dave Benett/Getty Images; Karwai Tang/WireImage Liam Payne and his former One Direction bandmates ...

’90s babies might be quick to name a few of their own favorite boy bands, but it’s One Direction that captivated audiences in the last decade or so. Even since their split, they’ve remained relevant ...

Over the years, fans of One Direction have wondered what exactly went wrong in the boyband. Follow Zayn Malik‘s departure in 2015, rumors began to circulate that there were beefs within the group. In ...

Josh Devine, best known as the drummer of One Direction, reacted to Liam Payne’s shocking death at age 31. “Heartbreaking news,” Devine, 33, wrote via Instagram Story on Thursday, October 17. “I just ...