Nathan Sykes was always the member of The Wanted who kept out of the online fighting between the group and One Direction. Along with Siva Kaneswaren, he ignored the madness surrounding it, but has now discussed exactly what it was like living in that time.
Nathan Sykes
Speaking to Lauren Franklin of thelineofbestfit.com, Sykes explained: "You know what was funny about that, I never had anything to do with any of them. It was Tom and Max, versus Zayn and Louis. Then Jay got involved, then Liam, and it was me, Siva, Harry and Niall, just sat there being like, 'We don't know what's happening'.
"I remember bumping into Harry Styles and saying, 'What the bloody hell happened there?' It was just odd, and really sad, because it just turned into this really vicious feud.
"We were actually doing a gig at Madison Square Garden with Z100 in New York, and we'd just done 'Glad You Came', they were doing 'What Makes You Beautiful', so we were having really great moments, but when the focus wasn't on 'we've got two of the world's biggest boybands coming in and we're going to put on a great show', it was on 'there's gonna be a big fight backstage.'
"Then we got a phone call from their security asking if there was going to be trouble, and it was like 'Well I don't think so', then they turned up with so many extra security guards, then we got all these extra security guards and it turned into this big thing where this was gonna be this massive fight backstage.
"I'm not a fighter! Imagine it two boybands scrapping, it'll be like West Side Story! I imagine they thought it was gonna be the lads involved in this so-called feud, but it was just sad, especially as I'm a fan of 1D, and to see what they were doing musically was so good on such a massive level, as a fan of music, I loved them."
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