Little Mix Alum Jade Thirlwall Says Harry Styles Ghosted Her After One Date

Jade Thirlwall and Harry Styles have history together.

The Little Mix alum didn’t hold back recounting their glory days on The X Factor, sharing that she and the Grammy winner had a little fling when they auditioned for the U.K. version in 2010.

“We went on like one date when we were 16 or something,” Jade said on the Jan. 20 episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast, explaining how Harry had just been “put in a band” that later turned out to be One Direction.

While she didn’t make the cut that season, Jade said she and Harry “kept in touch” while he competed alongside bandmates Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne.

“The minute they went on live shows, he didn’t message me back,” she noted of Harry. “And I thought, ‘That’s it now, he’s gone. He made it.'”

However, their paths crossed again the following year when Jade returned to The X Factor, this time as part of a girl group with Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson and Leigh-Anne Pinnock. Recalling how One Direction had been invited on the show to perform, Jade said she and Harry ran into each other backstage.