Happy birthday, Harry Styles. Who are you?
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Harry Styles, One Direction heartthrob, is turning 18 today, and our hats are off to the young man with the apparently healthy libido.
One Direction is a British-Irish boy band that came in third place in the U.K. ‘X Factor’ series in 2010. To the jaundiced -- aged -- eye, the group’s members might all look a little like Justin Bieber, but Styles is the one with the curls ... and the one who just broke up with his 32-year-old girlfriend.
Last week (Styles was still 17 at that point), he tweeted that he had not dumped Caroline Flack, but that breaking it off was a ‘mutual decision.’ We can assume it didn’t have anything to do with the fact that 32 minus 17 is 15.
Flack is an English TV presenter who is host for, most recently, the interestingly named ‘Survivor’-type show ‘I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here Now!’ and the interestingly named ‘The Xtra Factor.’
Styles & Co. (not including Flack, of course) are making themselves known in the U.S. They will play themselves in an episode of ‘iCarly.’ MTV reported last week that they would appear during the fifth season of the show and had this synopsis:
Carly returns home sick after a trip and discovers that One Direction has accepted an invitation to perform on their web show. Not long after arriving, bandmate Harry becomes sick and we see Carly doting over him.
Styles, newly single and 18, might just make an impression on U.S. girls. And some thirtysomethings.
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-- Amy Hubbard
