Harry Styles
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Harry Styles

B2Upper-intermediateJune 27, 202614 min

The former boyband member and teen heartthrob, Harry Styles, is going into the final week of his sold-out residency at Wembley before continuing his world tour. After winning music competitions while at school in Cheshire, Styles entered television’s biggest talent show, The X Factor, in 2010. While not making it as a solo star he was grouped together with four other contestants to form One Direction and becoming one of the most successful boybands of all time selling over 100 million records worldwide. One Direction created a modern-day Beatlemania before going on permanent hiatus in 2016. Since th...

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So we asked him on the Monday could he have the Tuesday shift off.

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Thanks for downloading Profile. This week's presenter is Mark Coles. A man, a singer who, ever since he was a boy, aged six, dreamt he might make it big one day. We've actually found a little book that he made when he was in year two.

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So it was I Live in Homes Chapel, I've got a sister, And then on the very back page you put www.harrystyles.co.uk So it's as if he could see into the future himself maybe. So we asked him on the Monday could he have the Tuesday shift off.

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He got an audition with X Factor and I said yeah go for it. After that he got through onto the next audition. You know I might need another shift off yeah go for it. And then from then on it just went skywards for him.

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