One Direction Facts

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 ♡♡ Zayn Javadd Malik ♡♡

x He was born on January 12, 1993.

+ ‘Zayn’ means beautiful in Arabic.

x Zayn’s name is originally spelled “Zain” but he reckons ‘Zayn’ looks more original and adopted it as his stage name.

+ Zayn has one older sister and two younger sisters. They’re called Doniya, Waliyha and Safaa.

x One of his hobbies is drawing.

+ He is scared of the dark.

x Zayn has a bizarre pre-gig superstition – he always brushes his teeth before getting on stage. He admitted to The Hits Radio that his habit “is a little bit weird.”

+ Zayn can’t swim. He suffers from Aquaphobia – meaning he’s scared of open water. Despite this he likes sharks – especially hammerheads!

x Before X Factor, Zayn had never been on a plane.

+ Zayn suffers from acrophobia, which means the fear of heights.

x His father is from Pakistan.

+ Zayn’s all-time favourite song is Thriller by Michael Jackson. He’s also a big fan of rap and his favourite ever band is ‘N Sync.

x He’s a massive fan of comic books and used to collect them as a child. He confessed that it was a very ‘geeky’ thing to do.

+ Zayn has a soft spot for intelligent girls.

x Zayn says he’s totally flabbergasted by the success of One Direction in America. He told The Sun: "We thought it could be the same few hundred people tweeting us over and over again. Until we got to America, we didn't realise how crazy it was."

+ Just like Harry Styles, Zayn is a cat lover. His favourite animal is a lion.

x Zayn says that if he wasn’t in One Direction he’d like to be an English teacher.

+ Zayn says that if he was stranded on a desert island the one person he’d like to take with him is Louis Tomlinson.

x Zayn’s mum Tricia cries whenever he leaves home to join the 1D Boys. “When he leaves home I cry at the gate and he says, ‘Mum! I’m not going to war!’ A driver comes for him and I have to stand there and wave back at him crying,” she told the Daily Record.

+ Zayn says One Direction’s phenomenal global success is “beyond my wildest dreams” and “crazy.”

x His three favourite subjects at school were English, art and drama.

+ When he gets bored on the tour bus, Zayn keeps himself entertained by playing the Nintendo 3DS game console.

x Asked to sum up 1D’s debut album ‘Up All Night’ in one word, Zayn said it is “anthemic”.

+ Zayn describes himself as “the shy one” in One Direction. In a VEVO interview, he explained: “Before X Factor I’d never done anything that required me to have to speak in front of cameras or in front of people. The X Factor kinda helped me with that because you’re followed around by cameras and you get used to it.”

x Zayn says the one thing that’s guaranteed to make him smile is talking to his little sister Safaa.

+ Zayn says the craziest thing he’s ever seen a fan do is hide in a bin to avoid security.

x Asked what the best part of a girl’s body is, Zayn said: “I’m very attracted to a girl’s eyes. They don’t have to be a certain colour. I think you can tell a lot by a girl’s eyes.”

+  Zayn loves reading. In fact, one of his most famous quotes is: “There comes a day when you realise turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realise there's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.”

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~ Nicole