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Interviewer: Your running feud with One Direction continues. The latest claim from Zayn Malik is that he offered to fight Max [who Zayn also once dubbed “chlamydia boy”] but heard nothing.

Max: I have no idea where on earth he’s got that from.

Jay: I think until we speak to them personally, we won’t really know what the real situation is. It’s mostly just talk.

Nathan: It’s getting a bit boring now. It would be good to put it to one side and just get on with things.

Tom: Come on! It’ll never go away. ‘N Sync and the Backstreet Boys had it, Take That and East 17 had it. That’s what happens.

Max: [Getting riled] The fact is, we asked to meet them at Madison Square Garden [after the Jingle Ball concert in NYC last winter] and they did a runner. That’s the 100 per cent God’s honest truth. They got the car pulled up to the back of the stage and got straight in it.

Interviewer: Why did you want to meet them?

Max: Because Zayn was being a dick. I sent him a message on Twitter asking to meet and he sent one back saying: “All right, big man.” We wanted to know what the problem was and sort it out.

Tom: To draw a line under it.