5. Pussycat Doll<\/p>\n
Anne was the one who ended up sending Harry’s\u00a0X Factor application in when he got cold feet.<\/p>\n
“People tell me I’m a good singer. It’s normally my mum,” the 16-year-old said, already the charmer, when he auditioned for\u00a0The X Factor\u00a0in the spring of\u00a02010, performing Stevie Wonder<\/a>‘s\u00a0“Isn’t She Lovely” a cappella. “Singing is what I want to do and if people who can make that happen for me think I shouldn’t be doing that, then it’s a major setback in my plans.”<\/p>\n Well, they did and they didn’t. Harry didn’t make it through to the final Boys group, or even to the penultimate Boys group, but the show didn’t want to let him go.\u00a0<\/p>\n Fatefully, Simon Cowell<\/a>\u00a0and Nicole Scherzinger<\/a>, who was a guest judge filling in for Cheryl Cole<\/a>, thought to group Harry together with fellow aspiring solo artists Liam Payne<\/a>, Niall Horan<\/a>, Zayn Malik<\/a> and Louis Tomlinson<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Come on, I’m not going to take credit, but I’m going to take credit,” Scherzinger says in the 2013 documentary\u00a0One Direction: Going Our Way about her usually uncredited role in capturing lightning in a bottle. (Louis Walsh, meanwhile, was the\u00a0other\u00a0judge, the one who infamously didn’t get Harry at all.)<\/p>\n It was Harry, however, who came up with the group’s name.<\/p>\n