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One Direction have had their fair share of ups and downs as a band ever since they were formed on “The X Factor” in 2010, became the biggest boy band in the world in the blink of an eye, and ultimately broke up in 2015. But if Liam Payne and Niall Horan’s reactions to Harry Styles winning album of the year at the 2023 Grammys prove anything, it’s that whether the band are together or not, they show up and support one another when it counts.
Styles had an eventful night at the 2023 Grammys on Feb. 5. After schmoozing with Taylor Swift and Lizzo in the audience, he took to the stage to perform his Billboard No. 1 single “As It Was.” Later, he won the award for best pop vocal album and then the top prize of the night, album of the year, for “Harry’s House.”
Hours after his big win, in the early morning hours of Feb. 6, his former One Direction bandmate Payne posted a congratulatory message on his Instagram. Alongside a photo of Styles looking down at his Grammy, Payne wrote, “Wow… this image is really something to wake up to and when you write music like you do Harry you deserve every millisecond of that moment looking down smiling at the trophy you’ve earned. God bless you brother congratulations.”
Horan also posted a short and sweet message on his Instagram Story, captioning a photo of Styles’s winning moment, “very proud ♥️.”
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Styles’s other former One Direction bandmates, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik, have yet to comment on his big win, but the One Direction love is clearly still alive and well.