Malik lives a rather quiet lifestyle with girlfriend Gigi Hadid in New York. While Zayn does not have any touring plans scheduled in the near future, there are rumors floating around that he’s already working on his second album.
Everyone knows that the One Direction had its humble beginnings in the British music competition reality show “The X Factor of UK.” Everyone also knows that it was Simon Cowell, the sarcastic and overly criticizing judge from “American Idol” who eventually moved to the British reality show, who put the five members together to form One Direction.
The rest, as every music fan knows it, is history. One Direction has become a global phenomenon and went on to become the most popular boy band since, producing a total of five albums in five years.
But their rampage to the top was momentarily halted when one of their members decided to go solo last year and their manager Simon Cowell decided to rebrand the group from a quintet to a quartet.
Despite the departure of Zayn Malik, One Direction’s fifth studio album still did well, a clear indication that it was not the mere individual talents that fans are rooting for but the collective talents that the group has.