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Simon Cowell: 'Zayn was rude to 1D and their team after he quit'

Music mogul Simon Cowell has revealed that he thought Zayn Malik was "rude" for criticising One Direction's music and back catalogue once he left the group. 

Speaking to The Mirror, Cowell explained that he hopes Malik will look back on his remarks and feel a pang of regret: "I think once he has had a chance to reflect on everything he will probably reconsider what he’s said because it was a very, very democratic process in the band."

"It is a bit rude to the people who wrote all the hits with them. And to the other band members. I mean they all wrote a lot of the stuff."

Referring to Malik's initial hostility, Cowell admitted that he should simply have been grateful for being part of such a momentous boyband: "Life could have been a lot worse, right?"

Cowell went onto add that he hasn't given Malik a lot of thought since he quit the band because he has such a loyalty to the remaining band members who are still under contract: "To be honest I don’t even think about it too much because as soon as he left we sorted him out with a label who really were enthusiastic about him and then my loyalty was back with the boys,”

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