One Direction tip Little Mix to win X Factor

One Direction tip Little Mix to win X Factor
One Direction tip Little Mix to win X Factor (Image credit: PA)

One Direction want Little Mix to win The X Factor because they think the girlband are "down to earth". The teen boyband are right behind Jesy Nelson, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Perrie Edwards and Jade Thirlwall and are proud of them for being the first girlband to get through to the final five. Louis Tomlinson said: "Little Mix should win because they were put together as a group and they're just smashing it. "For me if you look at them I think they're the most obvious act where there's a gap in the market. They could really be top artists I think." Harry Styles added: "You can just tell they're completely themselves - they're the kind of girls you'd go to school with I guess." Meanwhile, the chart toppers, who found their own fame after being put together on the ITV1 show, have revealed the screams of their fans has left ringing in their ears. Zayn Malik joked: "I've got problems with my ears. It's really weird." Niall Horan revealed: "Sometimes it feels like someone's covered up your ears and there's not even a sound any more." Louis added: "Each scream becomes like a constant noise." And the rest of the boys agreed they hear buzzing in their ears. Harry said: "If there's loads of people sometimes it turns into one buzz."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.