I think we're kind of exploring and enjoying ourselves individually.' He also told Rolling Stone that he still adored his former bandmates and would never bash their time nor the music they'd made together just to get 'cool points.' Louis Tomlinson, who released his debut solo effort, Walls, around that time, revealed on The One Show (via the Mirror), that it would likely 'happen at some point, we'd be stupid not to. Here's what led to the One Direction breakup, be it a permanent split or a temporary division. In any case, the 1D's 2015 release as a foursome was their most recent effort, as of this writing. Just two months earlier, insiders close to the British boy band denied breakup rumors to People, explaining that the members were similar to the Rolling Stones in that they wanted to pursue solo efforts while also remaining a unit together.Īt the time, the band was promoting its fifth (what would become its final) album, Made In The A.M., and there was a lot of confusion over what the group's status actually was: Were they on a break? Were they broken up? Was there animosity? Even Simon Cowell, who effectively created 1D on The X Factor, confessed to Billboard that he wasn't entirely sure what the guys' plans were.

They will remain together and plan to work together in the future.' The source added that the members of One Direction - Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson ( sans former member Zayn Malik) - remained close friends and were incredibly supportive of one another and their respective solo projects. A source told E! News at the time, 'They are taking a hiatus so they can work on individual projects for a while but they are not splitting up. Millions of hearts around the world shattered when One Direction confirmed their hiatus in August 2015.

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