One Direction star Louis Tomlinson took a swipe at Carrie Bickmore and Peter Helliar, accusing The Project co-hosts of “stirring s***” during a tense appearance on the show on Wednesday night.
The singer was on the Channel 10 show to promote his tour Down Under when they brought up a recent interview by Louis’ former bandmate Liam Payne, who spoke of difficult relationships among the band before their split back in 2015.
Helliar asked if there was any “beef” between the five former members of the band.
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Helliar asked: “There’s been a bit of 1D beef recently thanks to Liam who’s been speaking out about the band a little bit. When you look back on your experience about the band, how do you feel about your experience of those days?”
Louis replied: “Oh, so the fishing’s begun already. Yeah, I see what you’re doing… No, listen, I’m immensely proud, as I know Liam is, I’m immensely proud of those days, obviously. It was an incredible thing to do, especially at such a young age and I have amazing memories, amazing memories.”
Bickmore then followed up on Tomlinson’s jab: “When you say the fishing has begun – I imagine it is annoying have to answer retrospective questions like that. I am interested, how much do you want to talk about that time of your life to the media, versus how you don‘t want the talk about it again?” she asked.
“I’m more than happy to talk about it in every interview,” Louis replied.
“It’s something I’m immensely proud of, as I’d already said, it’s just when you mentioned the beef before, it sounded like you were getting ready to stir some s**t up, that’s all I’m saying.”
Helliar quickly jumped in to say: Peter chimed in: “No, I’m not a s**t stirrer Louis, do I look like a s**t stirrer?”.
The interview then got more awkward when Waleed Aly changed the topic – to 1D’s most successful former member, Harry Styles. Reading from a news report that Styles now had a Texas university course completely dedicated to him, Aly asked Tomlinson: “That should be you, shouldn’t it?”
“I don’t really have interest in having a course done about me,” said a visibly uncomfortable Tomlinson.
“It’s a very strange thing not to be interested in,” said Aly.
“You sound very interested – maybe you should sign up,” Tomlinson shot back.
The interview then wrapped politely – but Tomlinson’s fans were vocal on social media with their anger at the line of questioning, flooding The Project’s Twitter account with hundreds of furious replies.
“You had in your hands such an interesting and kind person and you wasted it completely (and wasted everyone‘s time). I’m here because I’m interested in Louis’ solo career, his next album and his personal projects,” wrote one.
“You should‘ve ask him for his WORLD tour, album, new album and all that stuff. But you made him uncomfortable with annoying questions of 1D and H. Stop relating him to that man or any of his ex bandmates, he’s a solo artist now, RESPECT HIM,” said another fan.
“Don’t ever waste his time like this again. If you want to ask questions completely unrelated to him, interview the people involved and leave Louis out of it. The man is busy on his first solo tour and yet makes the time to talk to you and you treat him like this. Do better,” wrote another.
Tomlinson is known for being quite outspoken in interviews – he made headlines in 2019 for a biting retort during an otherwise friendly appearance on James Corden’s talk show.
Originally published as One Direction star Louis Tomlinson takes swipe at Carrie Bickmore and Peter Helliar on The Project
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