{"id":283404,"date":"2019-11-12T08:33:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T15:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1092421"},"modified":"2019-11-12T08:33:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T15:33:50","slug":"simon-cowell-predicts-a-one-direction-reunion-within-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/simon-cowell-predicts-a-one-direction-reunion-within-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Cowell Predicts a One Direction Reunion Within 5 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20191012\/rs_1024x759-191112063811-1024-One-Direction-Simon-Cowell.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Simon Cowell, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, One Direction \" alt=\"Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Simon Cowell, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, One Direction \" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Ian Gavan\/Getty Images for Sony Picture<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.589743589744\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"26.149386845039\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/one_direction\">One Direction<\/a><\/strong>fans, get pumped!&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/simon_cowell\">Simon Cowell<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;feels a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/954134\/liam-payne-niall-horan-and-louis-tomlinson-celebrate-one-direction-s-8-year-anniversary-amid-reunion-rumors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reunion coming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a&nbsp;Tuesday interview with UK radio talk show&nbsp;<em>Heart Breakfast<\/em>, the famed TV judge\u2014who&#8217;s to thank for the creation of 1D, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/little_mix\">Little Mix<\/a><\/strong> <em>and<\/em> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/fifth_harmony\">Fifth Harmony<\/a><\/strong>\u2014predicted that&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/harry_styles\">Harry Styles<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/louis_tomlinson\">Louis Tomlinson<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/niall_horan\">Niall Horan<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/liam_payne\">Liam Payne<\/a><\/strong> and&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/zayn_malik\">Zayn Malik<\/a><\/strong> will&nbsp;come together for a tour!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My gut feeling is yes,&#8221; Cowell told hosts<strong> Jamie Theakston<\/strong> and <strong>Amanda Holden<\/strong>. &#8220;I mean, they&#8217;re all doing great solo wise, at the moment, but they had a lot of hits. So, they could do tour, after tour, after tour. You know you could sell out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1072502\/louis-tomlinson-say-one-direction-would-make-up-rumors-about-niall-horan-s-sex-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One Direction gig<\/a>, or a stadium tour, in about 20 seconds.&#8221; A stadium tour would be an exciting development, indeed!<\/p>\n<p>As for when Cowell thinks this supposed reunion tour could go down, he revealed he sees it happening somewhat soon. Revealed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1074318\/kelly-clarkson-hosts-american-idol-reunion-with-simon-cowell-paula-abdul-and-randy-jackson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">former&nbsp;<em>American Idol<\/em> judge<\/a>,&nbsp;&#8220;I would say within five years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.991150442478\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9.4985250737463\">\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s been nearly five years since the group went on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/689030\/one-direction-taking-extended-hiatus-to-focus-on-individual-projects-are-they-breaking-up-for-good\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">indefinite hiatus<\/a>. And Cowell is correct that all of the boys have found success in their solo careers, so don&#8217;t take the <em>America&#8217;s Got Talent<\/em> judge&#8217;s word as law, no matter how exciting the prospect.<\/p>\n<p>As he warned, &#8220;That&#8217;s only a guess. Not that I know. It&#8217;s only a guess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"62.158802177858\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"18.310344827586\">\n<p>While Cowell, feels a reconciliation is inevitable, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1067944\/harry-styles-biggest-rolling-stone-bombshells-sex-drugs-and-one-direction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Styles isn&#8217;t as sure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a September interview with&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, the &#8220;Lights Up&#8221; singer revealed how he feels about getting the band back together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d ever say I&#8217;d never do it again, because I don&#8217;t feel that way,&#8221; he admitted. &#8220;If there&#8217;s a time when we all really want to do it, that&#8217;s the only time for us to do it, because I don&#8217;t think it should be about anything else other than the fact that we&#8217;re all like, &#8216;Hey, this was really fun. We should do this again.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.57486631016\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11.326203208556\">\n<p>&#8220;Until that time, I feel like I&#8217;m really <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1089147\/harry-styles-cryptic-tweet-has-the-internet-freaking-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enjoying making music<\/a> and experimenting,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I enjoy making music this way too much to see myself doing a full switch, to go back and do that again. Because I also think if we went back to doing things the same way, it wouldn&#8217;t be the same, anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fingers crossed that Cowell&#8217;s gut instincts are still as strong as ever!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <i>E! News<\/i> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1092421\/simon-cowell-predicts-a-one-direction-reunion-within-5-years?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Gavan\/Getty Images for Sony Picture One Directionfans, get pumped!&nbsp;Simon Cowell&nbsp;feels a reunion coming. In a&nbsp;Tuesday interview with UK radio talk show&nbsp;Heart Breakfast, the famed TV judge\u2014who&#8217;s to thank for the creation of 1D, Little Mix and Fifth Harmony\u2014predicted that&nbsp;Harry Styles,&nbsp;Louis Tomlinson,&nbsp;Niall Horan,&nbsp;Liam Payne and&nbsp;Zayn Malik will&nbsp;come together for a tour! &#8220;My gut feeling is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-13 14:17:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}