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Anne was the one who ultimately sent Harry the letter. X factor statement when he chickened out.
“People tell me I'm a good singer. Usually it’s my mom,” said the 16-year-old, already charming when he auditioned. X factor in the spring of 2010, speaking Stevie Wonder“Isn't She Beautiful” a cappella. “Singing is what I want to do, and if people who can do it for me think I shouldn’t do it, then that’s a major setback for my plans.”
Well they did and they didn't. Harry didn't make it to the last group of boys, or even the second to last group of boys, but the show didn't want to let him go.
Fateful Simon Cowell And Nicole Scherzingerwho was a guest judge replacing Cheryl Colewas thinking of teaming up Harry with other upcoming solo artists. Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik And Louis Tomlinson.
“Come on, I'm not going to take responsibility, but I'm going to take responsibility,” Scherzinger says in the 2013 documentary. One direction: go your own way about her usually uncredited role in capturing lightning in a bottle. (Louis WalshMeanwhile, there was another The judge, the same one who shamefully did not get Harry at all.)
However, it was Harry who came up with the name of the group.
“I thought it sounded good,” he recalled on CBS Sunday morning in 2017. “We were throwing names around a little bit, and I honestly don’t know. “I suggested it and everyone said, ‘Yeah, we like that,’ and then it kind of stuck and that’s what happened.”
“We basically just came up with the idea of coming up with a bunch of names,” Zane told Phoenix's Hot 97.5 FM in 2012, “and that was one of the first names Harry came up with. He just wrote it to us and we were like, “Yeah, I like that, that’s cool.” Liam came up with some really awkward options… What was the second one? USP is a unique selling point.”
