One Direction and Simon Cowell have a whole lot of history. The founding members of the boy band — Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson — initially auditioned for The ...

After Payne died on Wednesday, members of the beloved former pop boy band and the UK competition show where they got their start reacted to Payne’s death with heartfelt tributes. “We’re completely ...

Piles of headshots were accumulating on a table in front of The X Factor judges Simon Cowell, Nicole Scherzinger and Louis Walsh. Tasked with deciding which contestants would make it to the next round ...

The singer — who died Wednesday after falling from his hotel balcony at age 31 — originally appeared on the UK singing competition series in 2008, where he met his future girlfriend, Cheryl Cole. The ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X “We’ve thought long and hard about it, and we’ve thought of each of you as individuals and we just ...