Zayn’s going in One Direction. He’s leaving...

The world’s biggest boyband would be ’a fab four’ brought me back to the heartache of when Robbie left Take That a month after my mum died, says Paula Burns

AS I stood in my kitchen, preparing dinner, on Wednesday evening, I was transported back 20 years. The news was that Zayn Malik had walked away from One Direction, the band that made him a household name.

Tears came to my eyes, not because I’m a weird, 36-year-old 1D fanatic, but because the emotion I had felt as a 16-year-old washed over me.