I did The Late Late Show recently and was talking to Orlando Bloom. A heartbeat later, they were the world’s biggest band. The rest is pop history: further into the series, Cowell and Walsh put Horan together with four other boyish stragglers and christened them One Direction. “You have charisma: maybe you should work on it.” But, just to be kind, she waved him through anyway. Echoing Cheryl, Perry said he was too young. The casting vote was with guest adjudicator Katy Perry if she said no, he was out. Cheryl Cole felt he wasn’t ready and advised he return the following year. He received a thumbs up from Louis Walsh and Simon Cowell. Horan had gone before the judges and performed So Sick by Ne-Yo. He puffs out his cheeks it could have easily worked out differently. He went into The X Factor an affable 16-year-old from the Midlands with a plaid shirt and a face flushed with nerves. “It was a sliding doors moment,” he says. The former One Direction singer and Mullingar’s biggest superstar this side of Joe Dolan is thinking back to June 28th, 2010: the day The X Factor held auditions at the Convention Centre, that great glass carbuncle on Dublin’s Docklands. Every time I drive past it, I get goosebumps. “I came in through the tunnel today and drove past the Convention Centre. Niall Horan has just seen his life flash in front of him.
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