{"id":149591,"date":"2025-02-12T02:08:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T02:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/one-direction-reject-offer-to-reunite-at-brit-awards\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T02:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T02:08:33","slug":"one-direction-reject-offer-to-reunite-at-brit-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/one-direction-reject-offer-to-reunite-at-brit-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"One Direction &#8216;reject offer to reunite at Brit Awards&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-02-12\" datetime=\"1739326113\" pubdate=\"\">12 February 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/one-direction\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,one-direction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One Direction<\/a> have rejected an offer to reunite at the Brit Awards.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">One Direction enjoyed huge success as a band<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/harry-styles\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,harry-styles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry Styles<\/a>, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik were reportedly approached about reuniting at the awards show and paying tribute to late bandmate Liam Payne, but they&#8217;ve decided against the idea and are actually unlikely to attend the event at all.<\/p>\n<p>A source told The Sun newspaper&#8217;s Bizarre column: &#8220;It has been a really emotional time for the lads and it was decided it would just be too much.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have grieved in private and don\u2019t feel the need to do a big, showy tribute for the sake of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Millions of fans will be disappointed not to see them back on stage together but the time is just not right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe band members all released solo music after One Direction announced an indefinite hiatus in 2016, and a reunion doesn&#8217;t appear likely at this stage.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe insider continued: &#8220;Apart from anything else, Zayn lives in America now and they are all at different places in life. A One Direction reunion is not on the cards at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nDespite this, Jack Whitehall &#8211; who is returning to host the Brit Awards &#8211; is set to pay a heartfelt tribute to Liam during the show on March 1.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe former One Direction star died in October, aged 31, after falling from his hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>\nA second source said: &#8220;Liam\u2019s friend Jack Whitehall is hosting the evening and is expected to say a few words.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The tribute to Liam will be a strong section of the show and not simply an In Memoriam name-check.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;His family aren\u2019t involved in the plans but they are being kept in the loop.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The Brits are treating it with the utmost respect and sensitivity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/one-direction-reject-offer-reunite-brit-awards-1413588.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 February 2025 One Direction have rejected an offer to reunite at the Brit Awards. One Direction enjoyed huge success as a band Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik were reportedly approached about reuniting at the awards show and paying tribute to late bandmate Liam Payne, but they&#8217;ve decided against the idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[405,1126,204,750,2491],"class_list":{"0":"post-149591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-harry-styles","9":"tag-louis-tomlinson","10":"tag-niall-horan","11":"tag-one-direction","12":"tag-zayn-malik"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}