You can take the boy out of Bradford, but you can’t take Bradford out of the boy – even if he becomes a global megastar.
Zayn Malik first entered our lives on the stage of The X Factor auditions in 2010, aged just 17, when he was teamed up with Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson. One Direction may not have won the series but they quickly became a stratospheric pop phenomenon, shifting 70 million records with their final gigs as a fivesome, on the Where We Are Tour which became the highest grossing ever by a group, totalling over £230 million as they played to 3,439,560 fans worldwide.
And then, after five years in the band, Zayn stepped away. In a statement he said he wanted to live as a “normal 22-year-old who is able
