One Direction’s Niall Horan put the cat firmly among the hysterical teenage girl-shaped pigeons this week, saying the band could take a leaf out of Take That’s book and embark on a 10-year break. “We want to be like Take That or Gary Barlow,” he said. “Take 10 years out and then come back.”
Niall Horan, bless him, is only 19 little years old, so barely remembers how insane people went when Take That split up. Reminder: they went insane. There is a reason why us elders do not talk about those dark days, why 1996 has been scratched from the record books. As soon as Gary Barlow gurned into a microphone and announced Take That were over, Britain was transformed into a billowing cloud of sad hormones, overcome with mounds of tissues clotted together with wept-in mascara. It was not a very cool scene. Now imagine if One Direction split. Twitter would explode into dust.
Anyway, you can get the full skinny on Niall’s split hints in the video above.