Fans stay up all night to greet 1D at premiere

1D mania hit London and Dublin, as chart-topping boyband One Direction attended the world premiere of their film, One Direction: This Is Us.

Fans stay up all night to greet 1D at premiere

Thousands of screaming fans, some of whom had camped out overnight, greeted the award-winning group — comprising of 21-year-old Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, 20, and 19-year-olds Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Niall Horan — as they arrived at the Empire cinema in London’s Leicester Square. The film was simultaneously screened in Dublin for hordes of Irish fans.

Emily Gee, 16, of Solihull, West Midlands, camped out overnight while her mother stayed in a nearby hotel. She said the Directioners are similar to a big family.

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