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Poor old Niall Horan’s got a cool £3million in the bank, a (rumoured) Victoria’s Secret model girlfriend and a world of adoring One Direction fans hanging on his every word.
But he can’t have the one thing he really wants for Christmas: to get home to see his family in Ireland (Cue pantomime ‘Awww’s , swiftly followed by the sorrowful melody of the world’s tiniest violin).
Yes, like so many of us this Christmas Eve, Niall is stranded due to the biblically epic storms that have battered our fair isles over the last 24 hours, leaving many without electricity, transport routes in chaos and hundreds of flights cancelled.
"Well this is s**t! looks like we ain't going home for Xmas," he tweeted, adding a cutting: "F**k you wind."
Niall, who had been busy shooting a music video with the rest of One Direction in London and crying into his own hands during JLS’s last ever show (“Jesus! That was an emotional one last night!Tears were flowing all round! Congrats to the JLS lads. What a career! Love you boys,” he tweeted. Seriously.), was due to head back to his home town of Mullinger for a slap-up Horan Christmas. But he can’t. So instead, his friend Willie Devine (real name), who was also stranded, launched a heart-warming online appeal – probably making a face not unlike an abandoned Labrador puppy as he typed it by way of subliminal blackmail.
"Wanted: two spaces at a Christmas dinner table this side of the Irish Sea for myself and @NiallOfficial," Devine posted on Twitter, adding: "...looking into flights later today... mixed reports of flights taking of. Tomorrow looks a better shot."
Niall quickly retweeted the plea, sending Twitter into meltdown as girls fell over themselves to offer the puppet-like boyband star a slice of turkey and good helping of stuffing.
The message was then re-retweeted a mammoth 15,432 times, snowballing 27,972 responses in process, many of which were too gushy/blue/ridiculous to ever mention again.
There has been little word from Niall since then on whether he’s managed to find a place to stay, although another friend, Stephen ‘Deo' Divine (presumably the brother of Willie), offered the pair a seat at the "sons" table. Whatever that is. Sons of Anarchy? Christmas dinner with Jackson Teller? We're not sure.
But to be honest, we don’t really care. We’re stranded too, Niall. So, you know… Quit your whining and suck it up. We'll all be doing the same. Just without the millions and the Victoria's Secret model girlfriend.
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