Zayn Malik has his backup plan ready

Former One Direction star Zayn Malik, who thinks about “alternative realities”, says he would have been at a university had he not become a singer. Speaking to VMAN 38, Malik, 24, admitted to the magazine that he’s been curious about what his life might have looked like had he not become a member of the One Direction band. “I think about alternative realities. I think I’d be at university and I would have done my English degree. I think I’d be looking for some employment to do with English lecturing or literature,” he said. Malik quit One Direction in 2015 and released his debut solo album a year later.