He reflected: "For Zayn, he loves music and he's an amazing talent. He genuinely was the best singer in One Direction, hand on heart, out of all of us.

I am leaving because I want to be a normal 22-year-old who is able to relax and have some private time out of the spotlight,” Malik said in a statement on One Direction’s Facebook page.

Zayn Malik was never the celebrity you thought he was. If it wasn't already obvious from his detached, often melancholic interviews in the wake of his 2015 departure from One Direction, it will be ...