Niall Horan became a household name back as one fifth of One Direction back in 2010 - and what has followed since has broken music records all over the globe.
Speaking exclusively to The Mirror at the Capital Summertime Ball with Barclaycard, Niall discussed the version of his life that could have come to fruition if he had never stepped foot on the X Factor stage in front of judges Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh, and Katy Perry. "I would like to think that I would have been in the music industry if I had never have went on the show - but I don't think the success would have been to that magnitude."
"I was actually going to apply to the show - it was my French teacher who did it for me. He filled out the forms and sent them off and encouraged me to go to the audition. If it wasn't for that, and for all the encouragement from my school, I genuinely wouldn't be here now standing in Wembley Stadium about to perform in front of 80,000 people," Niall gushed.