#bootcamp

Behind the scenes of the "unusually accurate medical drama."

i've seen conflicting sources on whether Harry and Louis met at bootcamp (or rather: the day they first spoke to each other in the toilets and then took a picture together) on 21 or 22 July 2010 and I fear that most posts we are seeing today are relying on one single source (Kati's @bulletprooflarry timeline) that unfortunately might have made a mistake 10+ years ago. and I'd like to get to the bottom of it just to have accurate information, but I'm having a hard time getting a grasp on a good source just to be able to fact-check.

X Factor season 7 Wikipedia says the bootcamp only started on 22 July 2010 ("The bootcamp stage of the competition began on 22 July 2010 at Wembley Arena, London"), but the source there is a The Mirror article from 12 July 2010 just saying "Following medical advice Cheryl [Cole] will not be able to take part in X Factor’s Boot Camp stage. X Factor bosses will now hold crisis meetings this week to decide if they need a second guest judge for the Boot Camp at Wembley Arena on July 22."

Notice the article doesn't say anything about "starting" that day. And there were different judges "booked" for different days, not all of them were there every day of it. According to the Wikipedia page, Nicole Scherzinger only joined "on the 5th day of bootcamp". So bootcamp might have really started 18 July 2010 and the Wikipedia article might be wrong? The original @bulletprooflarry July - Sep 2010 timeline says so; says that bootcamp started 18 July (from which we have footage of them "noticing each other" on the stairwell) and that Harry & Louis met 21 July, BUT that same timeline also says that the formation of 1D was on 22 July. -- The officially recognised (by the 1D members themselves) date is 23 July, though! And Kati's timeline sadly didn't include any sources. Maybe I haven't dug in deep enough into it, yet.. maybe there are old sources I haven't seen? I've been following her since 2013, I know her blog pretty well, but my memory isn't great, so..

I've googled and researched for hours by now, but I haven't been able to find a single reliable source.

Kieron Moore : Boots (S01E01)