One Direction: This Is Us Page #3

out of bed.

Imagine if I'd stayed in bed that day.

Liam.

I went back on the show

with a bit of a point to prove.

Cry me

A river

One massive

fat almighty yes.

Thank you so much.

We got down

to the last, like, 24 boys.

I thought, I'm so close to this now.

This is literally--

I'm on the cusp of making it here.

The final

contestant

who's made it through

is:

Tom Richards.

I could see my mom.

I went:

And she was going,

"Yeah, yeah, yeah."

And I'm like,

"No, this clearly means no."

I think a couple of us were crying.

We were absolutely gutted

when we got kicked off.

I just don't wanna go home.

I just don't wanna go.

And then as I was, like,

about to leave...

Zayn Malik.

Liam Payne.

they just called all five

of our names out.

Harry didn't have a clue.

I remember him saying, like:

"Yeah, you kept us back because

you wanna try and make us cry."

"We're young boys

and we're all gonna be crying."

Make a bit of good TV.

And he was proper

having a full-on strop about it.

And then I made a decision,

and I did this in about 10 minutes.

Why don't we put these five boys

into a group?

Then

the most important thing

for us at that stage

for some reason, in our minds, was:

What are we gonna wear?

So ridiculous.

We hadn't even

thought of a name. We didn't

even know if we could sing together.

Niall did say, "We all need to dress

a bit like Louis."

Niall looked at Louis' shoes.

He was quite cool.

"I like his shoes.

We should wear his shoes."

Green polo.

We like those jeans.

Let's all wear those jeans.

I look back on it now.

If we'd have dressed like that...

We first got together

at Harry's dad's place.

We did not know each other

at all.

We'd get together and sing

a few songs in the nighttime

around the campfire.

We were

meant to be rehearsing,

but we actually ended up

playing football.

Most of the time we just spent

having a laugh, really.

We were like:

"Let's just have fun."

Let's just have fun and,

like, see what happens.

It was vital that we

made friends before

we became colleagues.

The first act through

on the public votes is:

One Direction.

Love you!

Outside the studio,

they've only sang once.

There's now 200 fans.

And I thought at the time,

"This is unusual.

This just doesn't happen

after one performance."

The crowds were starting

to build outside the studio.

Harry, get a picture with me!

The fans were really hard-core

and they would just vote

loads and loads of times.

One Direction.

One Direction.

One Direction.

One Direction.

What's happening?

I've never seen a band

cause so much hysteria

so early in their career.

Leading up to the final,

I thought, "If I'm gonna bet

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