One Direction! One Direction!
Now, 2013 has been a great year, especially if you're in the world's biggest boy band
One Direction.
So to celebrate, we're looking back at the story of their life. Well, of this year. First
up, it was a pretty sour start to the year for 1D's Harry Styles after his, well, very
swift relationship with Taylor Swift.
After a reported 65 day romance, Haylor was no more, and nearly a year on, it seems Taylor's
still pretty sensitive about the subject of British men.
Any British men on the horizon?
Any what? For what kind of horizon? There's so many different kinds of horizons.
On the romantic horizon.
I have nothing on the romantic horizon, come on.
Can I just ask who you're wearing tonight?
Reem Acra. Thank you to whoever asked that.
Yeah, that's what you call a swift exit.
Next, from broken hearts to Brit Awards. In February, the boys were honoured for their
achievements across the pond and bagged the first ever Global Success Prize.
This award is crazy. We're absolutely blown away.
Oh, it's not here. This award is absolutely crazy. Just thank you so much. It's incredible. Thanks.
Yeah, tonight has been amazing. Just so you know, I'm stood here awkwardly because I was
trying to smuggle the Brit.
Oh, Liam's got one, so they don't know.
Hey, that's mine!
Yeah, it's been a great night. It's been great performing, and obviously to win an award
is just huge.
Next up, in May, the boys revealed details of their mammoth 2014 Where We Are tour at
a press conference in London.
We are here, and we're very incredibly excited to announce that we are going to be doing
a worldwide stadium tour in 2014. We're absolutely ecstatic about it. We're three years into
our career, and we're doing stadiums. We just can't believe it, so obviously this one...
If you get some free time in Peru, what would you like to do? Places to visit?
What's the best thing to do in Peru? Yeah.
The food is great. The food is good.
The girls are beautiful. We've got amazing culture. What do you hear about Peru?
We'll try all of that food. Try all of that?
What he means is to try the food and appreciate the women.
And it got a lot of buzz to say the least during the announcement, Twitter saw more
than one million mentions in just 80 minutes.
Next, the 1D lads got so famous, they had a 3D film made about them. Obviously.
Niall and Harry, can we give ourselves an air high five for being big movie stars? BANG!
You guys are really funny. We're really funny. We are, aren't we?
The laughs we have. Between me and you.
Pranks, laughs.
If you could cast your very own wife, like celebrity wife in a film that could star alongside you?
I thought you meant actual life, like if you could cast yourself a wife...
Wouldn't that be great? Who would you cast?
I'd have to cast that bird from Little Mix. What's her name? Perrie Edwards.
Kate Beckinsale. Kate Beckinsale.
Fight you for it.
You can't steal mine. She's my screen wife. You need to get another one.
I'm having Kate Beckinsale. Wait, you can have her as a screen wife. I'll have her as a wife.
And just a day later, the band hit the red carpet for their very own world premiere,
and the boss even showed up.
It was at that premiere where Zayn's other half Little Mix's Perrie debuted that rock,
which takes us to our next 1D highlight. Of course, Perrie and Zayn's engagement.
The young love birds confirmed they were tying the knot shortly after the premiere, and although
they haven't set a date just yet, Perrie is already planning the big day.
You have to do a speech, whether you guys like it or not.
You'll be doing a speech.
I like doing speeches.
Well, even if they haven't got a speech, I'm going to say and now my girls have a speech
ready for us.
She's going to be the one that brings out all the bad stories.
Oh yeah, Jade was there on the first date. That'll be interesting. Aw...
Next from their moment to Our Moment. Naturally, after releasing a 3D movie, the boys launched
their very own fragrance.
There was a fan on Twitter who made like a petition to have us make a fragrance, and
then we just kind of got the idea from there. We talked about it with management, and we
got it... It did happen! It was you. You're kidding me. Yes, that's kind of what happened,
and then we just got really into it. We thought we wouldn't just get something and whack our
name on. We'd rather make it and actually have something to do with it, rather than
just go here's One Direction's smell.
So music, a movie, perfume... What are we missing? Oh yeah, they had a book out.
In November, we were invited to another secret location, about the third of the year, where
hundreds of fans and us got to meet the boys at their Where We Are book signing. It's where
this happened.
Are you okay? Yeah. We've waited for three years...
I feel really sick.
What was it like? It was just amazing. It was the best day of my life.
Next from emotional fans to dating fans. Yeah, November was a pretty good month. 1D's Niall
Horan sent fans into a meltdown after saying this.
Would you ever date a fan if they were really cool?
Of course, yeah. Well, if they're a fan, it's a bonus, I guess.
Now, we could quite happily end the year there, but then Harry got his bromance on with David Beckham.
Yeah, in what is quite possibly the hottest bromance of all time, Harry Styles hanging
out with Golden Balls.
He's a legend, and a great guy. I think he's good. He shows how someone can have so much
success and still be such a nice guy. I think he's a great role model.
And finally polishing off a fantastic year, their latest album Midnight Memories is officially
the fastest selling record of 2013. The boys' third release not only topped the UK charts,
but also landed the top spot across in the US. So there we have it, a year in the life
of One Direction, and we think it's safe to say they'll have a very Merry Christmas.