Jade Thirlwall reveals Harry Styles ghosted her when they were teenagers
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Former Little Mix star and singer-songwriter Jade Thirlwall has revealed that she and Harry Styles once dated, making for the ultimate X Factor boyband-girlband crossover — if he hadn’t ghosted her. It was boy meets girl: Jade Thirlwall was a member of Little Mix, the X Factor-winning girlband who took the world by storm after they appeared on the cult talent show in 2011.
In turn, Styles was a member of One Direction, the boyband that prompted near-Beatlemania levels of hysteria when they competed on The X Factor in 2010. It could have been the crossover to end all crossovers. Except Styles’s career blew up right around the time they went on a date.
The revelation was prompted by Theroux mentioning an old clip of Thirlwall from 2010 where she interacts with Harry Styles. “In fact there’s a clip on YouTube […] And Harry runs up and it's like, surprise, and then you look fairly blasé about it,” he said. “And the comments are like, love how Jade gives him the side eye or something, not side eye, but it's basically how you seemingly unimpressed you are.”.
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Thirlwall replies: “I didn't know he was going to be the Harry Styles, did I? I think we went on like one date when again, we were like 16 or something. Yeah, he’d just got put in the band.”. The singer-songwriter went on to explain how she and Styles “kept in touch” but then he dropped contact. “... Then the minute they went on live shows, he didn't message me back and I thought, ‘That's it now, he's gone, he's made it.’.
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