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The Sun
12-05-2025
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How Brummie bar girl won the heart of £52m 1D's Niall Horan – after mum's blast at A-list exes with VERY barbed comment
HE'S the One Direction star with a fortune thought to be worth £52million, but Niall Horan's heart has been captured by a Brummie who works for a brewery. The gorgeous Amelia Woolley, known as Mia to pals, has also won the approval of Niall 's inner circle who are thrilled by the pair's latest relationship development. 11 11 Niall recently purchased a £10million, six-bedroom 'family home' for the couple to live a 'quiet lifestyle' with their pet dog. And while the 31-year-old tinkers away putting the finishing touches to his next album - almost certain to top the US charts like his previous three solo albums and see him set off on another sell-out world tour - Mia works day to day as an international sales and marketing manager for the Forest Road Brewery Company. They may seem worlds apart, but two years ago, the popular Irish singer-songwriter proudly confirmed he was 'madly in love' after penning a string of romantic hits about Mia - though he admitted she felt 'taken aback' at becoming his muse. It was Mia's normal job that first endeared her to Niall's family, firmly rooted in Mulligner, Ireland, when he first took her home to meet them in 2021, after the couple started dating during lockdown. Niall's mum Maura said she was 'very impressed' by Mia and particularly thrilled that she was not in show business. 'She's a lovely girl,' cooed proud Maura at the time. 'She's from England and she's not in the business so that's a good one! 'She's met Mammy Maura, and Mammy Maura is very impressed! She's also met Nanny Margaret, sat in the kitchen.' While Mia, 27, may be able to settle into quiet, comfortable, family life with ease with Niall, she is a high-flyer in her field, having studied fashion business at London 's Istituto Marangoni before going on to work for high-end designers including Nicholas Kirkwood, Dior and Chloé. But it is understandable that Niall's mum might prefer a non-showbiz girlfriend. He has had a string of high profile relationships, and experienced the negatives that come with dating celebrities, including an endless bombardment of social media speculation. Niall Horan brings Ed Sheeran out at gig- When he and actress and singer Hailee Steinfeld broke up after a year of dating, she wrote a track titled Wrong Direction, calling out an ex-boyfriend, which fans were convinced was about Niall, though she has never confirmed it. Niall also went on 'a few dates' with Ellie Goulding, resulting in Ed Sheeran writing the messy track Don't about an apparent love triangle between the trio. Though despite the headlines - and chart-topping singles - all three remain good friends. So it is no surprise that Niall intends to carry on 'keeping that stuff quiet' about his relationship with Mia - even if he quite literally wants to sing about it. Having documented former heartaches, he says writing love songs is a natural next step. 11 'When there's no heartbreak [to write about], you have to come up with a different concept,' he said of his charmingly upbeat 2023 album The Show, which took Mia by surprise. "She's like, taken aback, I suppose,' admitted Niall. 'It's nice to be able to write happier stuff.' He professes that keeping his relationship out of the limelight gives his songwriting integrity - avoiding fans engaging in Taylor Swift -style decoding of his lyrics. 'There'd be all these theories, and I'm not in town for that. I'm here to write what's on my brain, and love happens to be one of those things that's flying around me,' Niall added. There could be more happy tracks in the making at the moment, as Niall and Mia enjoy an idyllic life in a leafy, London suburb close to his A-list pals. A source said: "Niall loves travelling and touring but this is him really laying down his roots with his new home with Mia.' The couple met in 2020, and were first seen publicly together during the brief lifting of Covid restrictions before making their public debut at the red carpet for his Horan & Rose Gala in September 2021. 'Laying down roots' Having spent their lockdowns together, they bonded quickly - and though they admitted to getting terribly bored, unable to globe-trot as they were accustomed - Niall recalls it being the lengthiest period of time off since he joined One Direction aged just 16. 'I've never been fitter in my life because I was cycling 80 or 90 miles around Richmond Park every week,' he said at the time. That passion for fitness, including lockdown gym sessions, certainly showed results, with a new bulked up frame to match his new, mature look, having ditched the bleached blonde crop. As Niall blossomed, so did his relationship with Amelia, and he could not wait to bring her home to meet his whole family in Mullinger, a market town 50-miles west of Dublin, as soon as restrictions lifted. The source added: "All of Niall's loved ones have totally embraced Amelia, they can see how happy she makes him. She is part of the family." Niall has always been desperate to have a brood of his own, saying in 2019: 'I would love kids and a family life.' It could be that we see the star setting his sights on starting a family sooner rather than later. The last year in particular has seen the astronomic highs of Niall's 87-night solo The Show tour, which culminated in a gig in Bogota, Colombia, where he informed fans he would now ' disappear for a while ' to enjoy suburban bliss, teasing of his planned retreat from the public eye: 'You'll never find me.' Utterly heartbroken The final gig in Bogata should have been the last we saw of Niall publicly for a while. But days after his tour wrapped, his former One Direction bandmate Liam Payne - who had travelled to Argentina to watch his close friend perform on the tour on October 2nd - died after falling from his hotel balcony in Buenos Aires. Niall was left utterly heartbroken. 'I feel so fortunate that I got to see him recently,' he said at the time. "I sadly didn't know that after saying goodbye and hugging him that evening, I would be saying goodbye forever. It's heartbreaking." Amelia stood firmly by his side at Liam's funeral in Amersham, Buckinghamshire in November last year. It was the first time the members of One Direction had been together in a decade, in unthinkable circumstances. In the months following the tragedy there was speculation the boys might reunite again, this time to pay tribute to Liam at a special Brit awards appearance. But the four ruled out a "big, showy tribute", instead quietly returning to their own lives and solo careers. Family support It can be difficult to launch a solo career after achieving such unimaginable fame as one fifth of the world's most famous boyband, yet Niall's releases have topped charts in the UK, in Ireland and around the world. And he admits he feels at ease in front of big crowds: 'The bigger the venue, the better the show,' he says, confidently. He puts this remarkable ability to cope with fame down to his humble upbringing, and returns home seven or eight times a year to visit his tight knit family, though he admits he can no longer 'just pull up out outside the chip shop, run in and get the chips, then run back to the car'. Mum Maura worked in a pewter company, which produced clocks, while dad Bobby was a butcher in Tesco for 35 years - and still won't accept a penny from his son. With immense pride, Bobby has commended Niall for 'the way he held his head' in the showbiz spotlight. 'I am more proud of that than anything he has done,' he has said. Niall used golf to 'escape the madness' at the height of One Direction's popularity, and is the only member of the group to have steered entirely away from drugs. Harry Styles admitted dabbling with magic mushrooms, Zayn Malik says he enjoys weed and was filmed smoking a suspicious looking cigarette with bandmate Louis Tomlinson in Peru. Prior to his death, Liam Payne had well-documented struggles with substance abuse. But Niall said in 2019: 'I don't have a wild streak. I am known as the vanilla man… I like my sport and a few beers with my mates.' It is also the support of his parents, who split when he was five, that has helped him remain so humble. Speaking in 2013, Niall laughed that if anything, his family were unimpressed by his wealth, despite his attempts at generosity. 'I paid off my mum's mortgage and brought her a car – things I knew she needed – but I don't buy extravagant gifts all the time,' he said. 'I tried to give some money to my dad but he wouldn't take it. He'll barely take a Christmas present off of me. I want to do up the house he lives in but at the same time I don't want to be the idiot who walks in and throws money around.' Amelia is also from a close family, who Niall clearly adores - he wrote his track Never Grow Up about her parents, who are 'still madly in love', and in his lyrics, Niall says he longs for him and Mia to retain their love too: 'Hope we still drink like we're back in the pub / Hope we grow old, but we never grow up.' Unimpressed by wealth He also admits the track was inspired by his parents' divorce. 'When you've seen it crumble so many times in front of you — not just even within my family — you're just, like, 'I'd prefer not to have that if I can stop it.' I'd prefer to not see it crumble.' In his most direct track about their relationship, You Could Start A Cult, he combined their love of watching true crime series together with a metaphor for their love. It is, he insists, a 'love song, effectively', albeit unconventional, explaining: 'It's about… not the desperation feeling, but the 'I think you're the best f***ing thing in the world' feeling. 'And if you started a cult, I'd follow you into the fire.' His upcoming album is likely to include much more of the "happier stuff" he loves writing about.
Scottish Sun
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
1D star splashes £10m on huge new ‘family home' in ‘very fancy' neighbourhood so he can ‘live quiet life'
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) NIALL HORAN is one of the most low-key lads in One Direction, never happier than on a golf course or in a music studio. But the same can't be said of his lifestyle. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 13 Niall Horan has splashed out almost £10million on a new home in West London with girlfriend Amelia Woolley Credit: 13 Holly Willoughby is a resident of the same neighbourhood Credit: Getty 13 Ant and Dec also have pads nearby Credit: ITV Pals told me the Slow Hands singer has splashed out almost £10million on a new home in West London, in a very fancy neighbourhood. A source said: 'Niall has bought himself a gorgeous house and now lives close to celebs like Holly Willoughby and Ant & Dec. 'He did have a very cool penthouse in London but he wanted to get somewhere a little more grown up. 'Niall's new place is set across a number of floors and has six bedrooms, so it feels like a proper family home. 'He is really settled with his girlfriend Amelia Woolley. "They have a dog and are just like any other couple in their 30s — bar the fact he's got a fortune in the bank. 'They've been spotted a few times in the neighbourhood now but people leave Niall alone and let him just get on with his day. 'It's lovely that someone as well known as Niall can live the quiet life he's always wanted.' Niall's last studio record, The Show, went to the No1 spot when he released it in 2023. He finished touring the album in 2024 and last month said he planned to spend the summer working on his fourth record. Watch as huge boyband legend shocks fans by ditching car and WALKING streets to his own arena gig TikTok Niall said in an interview with a golfing magazine: 'I'm working on a new album guys. 'I've been accumulating some ideas and I'm going to sit down and start writing my next album.' With a new house where he can put pen to paper, I've no doubt he will feel inspired. CHARLI GREEN WITH ENVY GREEN DAY have sent up Charli XCX after she joked about not getting a headline slot at Coachella festival. The Brat singer wore a sash saying: 'Miss should be a headliner,' after she performed at the event in California. 13 Green Day's Tre Cool wore a sash reading: 'Actual headliner,' as a rib on Charli XCX Credit: Instagram 13 Charli had worn a sash reading 'Miss should be a headliner' Credit: Instagram Green Day were the headliners and during their second set this weekend, drummer Tre Cool had his own sash with the words: 'Actual headliner,' scrawled on it. The comedy move was all in jest, with Billie Joe Armstrong closing the show in a Brat hat in honour of Charli. She also loved the stunt and re-shared the picture on X with the caption: 'Obsessed.' NATALIE IN LABEL SPLIT THE music industry is a tough place and a raft of artists have found that out the hard way after splitting from their record labels. I've learned that Torn singer Natalie Imbruglia, former Strictly contestant HRVY and rapper Stefflon Don have all walked away from deals with their label BMG. 13 Natalie Imbruglia has left her record label BMG Credit: Getty The company had a run of success with Kylie Minogue's return to form and have also been working with Rita Ora. But I'm told a string of acts have now deserted them. Natalie released Firebird, her first album in six years, on the label in 2021 but no longer appears on its website. The same year, HRVY, above, signed a global recording deal with the company following his stint on Strictly. But he is now going it alone and is releasing music himself. Stefflon, above, put her long-anticipated album Island 54 out through the label in June but she has now also severed ties with BMG. I can also reveal that Mark Owen is no longer involved with them, after signing what they called a 'brand-new wide-ranging global deal' which 'spans from new recordings to the publishing of his future solo works and songs written with Take That' in 2022. Sources close to him insist it was only a one-record deal for his album Land Of Dreams that year, which peaked at No5. But after Gary Barlow told me earlier this month that Take That are working on new music, there's no time for more solo tunes anyway. TULISA'S DAPPY EASTER TULISA staged a mini N-Dubz reunion after meeting Dappy during a night out. The singer looked cool in an over-sized biker jacket as she hit the town in Manchester with her mates on Easter Sunday. 13 Tulisa hit the town in Manchester with her mates on Easter Sunday Credit: BackGrid 13 Tulisa had an N-Dubz reunion with Dappy Credit: Instagram Tulisa partied until the early hours of yesterday with Dappy in a nightclub and shared a video of them dancing together just after 1am. N-Dubz, which also includes rapper Fazer, released their fourth album Timeless in 2023 following an 11-year break. The record got to No6 in the charts but given thousands of fans, myself included, turned out to watch them on their Back To The Future arena tour, it's obvious they've still got a loyal following who are keen to see more from them. SPOOKS AT ENDER MY BED FORMER EastEnders actor John Altman thinks he was haunted by the ghosts of two Edwardian children when he lived in London. John, who played 'Nasty' Nick Cotton in the BBC soap from 1985 to 2015, said: 'I lived in a bedsit in Maida Vale in the 1970s and I woke up in the night. 13 John Altman thinks he was haunted by the ghosts of two Edwardian children when he lived in London Credit: Getty 'Standing at the end of the mattress on the floor – that was the fashion back in the Seventies – was a boy and a girl dressed in Edwardian clothing. 'I blinked and then they just disappeared. 'This building in Maida Vale was quite old, probably over 100 years old, it would have covered that Edwardian period. 'I'll never forget that. 'It was a strong image that will always be implanted on my memory.' I think it's more likely that two fellow residents got lost and ended up wandering into John's room by mistake. But given John is appearing in the new horror film The Last Grail Hunter, it all makes for good publicity… FENCING GERI THE SLICE GIRL GERI HORNER tells me she has taken up fencing to get into the mood for her new book. At a talk to promote her latest children's novel, Rosie Frost: Ice On Fire, the former Spice Girls singer said she had a go at the sport because she wanted to know how it really felt to hold a sword. 13 Geri Horner has taken up fencing to get into the mood for her new book Credit: Rex She said: 'I actually did fencing lessons because there are two scenes in it where she is fencing and I thought, 'I've got no idea how to carry this'. "I got this man to teach me because I thought, 'How can I describe that authentically if I don't know how to do it?'.' The plot for Geri's new book also includes mutant animals and even a black hole. I'm surprised she didn't attempt to blag her way on to Jeff Bezos' rocket with Katy Perry so she could try to get closer to one. A NIGHT TO REMEMBER EUROVISION is just over three weeks away and our girls – Remember Monday – are ready for action. The trio, Lauren Byrne, Holly-Anne Hull and Charlotte Steelend, performed their final pre-contest show in Madrid over the weekend. 13 Remember Monday are ready for Eurovision Credit: Instagram 13 They performed their final pre-contest show in Madrid over the weekend Credit: Instagram Sharing pictures from the gig, they said: 'Madrid, you made us feel so loved, and so special. 'We are so grateful for the support.' They will perform their song, What The Hell Just Happened, at Eurovision in Switzerland on May 17. I hope they're not asking that question once the voting starts. Bizbit ORITSE WILLIAMS felt forced to change the way he sang to fit in with his JLS bandmates, after a record producer told him his voice was 'too black'. He said: 'I'm in this commercial pop group, and I'm struggling with the fact that I'm also very different from the rest of my group members, vocally and musically. 'I had to learn to strip a lot of the colours of my voice. I had to try and bring my voice to be as streamlined as possible. "What I did, essentially, was sing through my nose in order to reach that.' SAM BIG ON SMALL SAM FENDER might be used to selling out stadiums as one of our country's best rock stars. But over in the US, the Seventeen Going Under singer said he was loving playing intimate venues. 13 Sam Fender loves playing intimate venues in the US Credit: Getty Sam said: 'It's humbling. 'I love the smaller shows. 'We did a show in Portland the other day and that was one of the best gigs I've played in a long time. 'It felt compact. 'It was really loud, like super-loud. 'It's nice to go back down a bit, you know? 'You kind of lose stuff, I think, when it gets massive.' 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