London: A spokesman for One Direction is declining to comment on a report that the chart-topping boy band will take an indefinite break starting next March.
Publicist Simon Jones says he won’t comment on “speculation.”
The Sun newspaper reported Monday that band members would go separate ways after the band, reduced to four members following the departure of Zayn Malik earlier this year, release their fifth album in March.
“The guys have been together for five years, which is an incredible run for any boyband,” the source said.
“They fully deserve to have at least a year to work on their own projects. There is absolutely no bad blood between them and they are all 100 percent behind the decision.”
There was no confirmation on the band’s Twitter feed.
The group’s last scheduled stadium concert will be in Sheffield, England on Oct 31. They will promote their new album in February, after a Christmas break, The Sun said.
One Direction formed in 2010 after five teenagers — Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Malik — auditioned individually for the British TV talent show The X Factor. Simon Cowell had the idea of putting them together as a boy band.
