- Had he not auditioned for The X Factor, he would have liked to do an English Degree at University in the hopes of becoming a teacher.
- He got over his fear of water when One Direction filmed the music video for "What Makes You Beautiful".
- His father is of Pakistani descent. His mother has English, Irish, and distant Welsh, ancestry.
- He is an artist, he even drew some of the pictures on One Direction's first album "Up All Night".
- His favorite band is *NSYNC.
- His first play was "Grease".
- His first pet was a staffie dog named Tyson.
- In March 2015, he quit One Direction.
- During the bootcamp rounds of The X Factor UK (2004) in 2010, Malik was noted for disappearing during the dance routine as he felt nervous and uncomfortable about dancing in front of people, as he said he "can't dance". Simon Cowell found him sitting backstage and convinced him to participate anyway because if he didn't he'd be ruining the opportunity for himself. Returning to the dance routine proved to be a good move as he was later put into boy band One Direction.
- He can't swim.
- He has three sisters, one is older named Doniya and his younger sisters; Waliyha and Safaa.
- He was a member of boy band One Direction.
- One Direction were formed at the bootcamp stage of The X Factor UK (2004) in 2010 when the judges felt Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Niall Horan were too good to throw away, but not interesting enough to make it as soloists. The decision to put the five boys in the group proved to be popular as they made it to The X Factor final and were the only band to be included on the 2011 X Factor Tour.
- Zayn Malik didn't have a passport before he was on X Factor.
- Has a daughter: Khai Hadid Malik (b. September 21, 2020) with girlfriend, Gigi Hadid.
- United States and Canada on One Direction's US Tour. (May 2012)
- One Direction's 2011/2012 UK tour sold out in just 12 minutes.
- Dated Gigi Hadid from November 2015 to March 2018, from April 2018 to December 2018 & since November 2019.
- Mother, Patricia 'Tricia' Malik (born 1969) converted to Islam when she married Zayn's father Yaser. They got divorced 1997.
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