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8 Harry Styles Bromances That Prove He Can Make Friends Anywhere
You would think that vomiting on the side of the road and having a fan actually construct a shrine to the spot in his honor would be all the proof Harry Styles needs that everything he does is going to be the source of massive scrutiny. Then again, maybe he knows and just doesn't care. All we know at this point is that Styles doesn't consider gender important in romantic partners, which either means he's come out as bisexual, he's come out as open to anything, or he really, really likes to mess with us. The debate continues to rage on in the One Direction fandom and outside of it.
Then again, I suppose if one wanted to look for evidence that Styles is an open minded fellow then one needs to look no further than the wide array of bromances he has had over the years. Despite the fact that the boy band member has a reputation for being rather fond of the ladies, he has a healthy amount of male friends too — friends that he doesn't always impose strict boundary guidelines upon. Let's look back (and forward) upon eight of these bromances, shall we?
1. Nick Grimshaw
The first time (well, the second time) there was serious fuss over whether or not Styles was truly bisexual was when he began hanging around with openly gay radio show host Nick Grimshaw. Both Styles and Grimshaw had to deny that there was anything more than friendship between them, but that didn’t seem to affect their friendship any. A particularly good moment during this bromance was the time that Grimshaw and Styles did a show after the BRIT Awards — while they were both still kind of drunk and quite hungover from partying all night. Friends don’t let friends work while drunk unless they’re recording it, obviously.
2. David Beckham
David Beckham is Harry Styles’ idol and who can blame him, really? You have to be some kind of special to marry Posh Spice, OK? According to an interview Styles did in 2013, the famous pair met in L.A., Beckham’s children have been to One Direction concerts, and Styles even went so far as to call Beckham a legend. They were also seen hanging out on the red carpet of The Class of 92 premiere, because fantastically handsome British men need to stick together.
3. Zach Braff
To be perfectly honest with you, this is a bromance that I don’t understand. However, my job is not to question the adorable. Not only did Styles show up at an event to support Zach Braff’s Kickstarter film, but Braff has also described the singer as a “dynamite spooner.” Theirs is a bromance so sacred and so strange that not even Styles knows how they know each other. They just get along very well, as their Twitter interactions can tell you. I, for one, am still waiting for them to do a couples’ costume as Lilo & Stitch for Halloween. It’s got to happen some time.
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4. Jeff Azoff
You know it’s a true bromance when you celebrate your birthdays together. Jeff Azoff is a music agent at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and there are numerous pictures of him and Styles doing everything from golfing together to stealing each other’s food to hiking up mountains together. There’s being co-workers and then there’s being friends, and the “Hazoff” bromance has an entire tumblr dedicated to it, which is how you know it’s serious. It’s also said that Azoff is Styles’ closest friend in L.A., which is adorable.
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5. Niall Horan
All right, so including an individual member of One Direction might be cheating since Zayn Malik has said that being in 1D is “like having four boyfriends.” However, it can’t be denied that of the other four members of the band, Niall Horan is the one that Styles spends the most time fooling around with. They’ve done lots of interviews together, they’ve slow danced together, they’ve dog-piled on top of one another, and they do seem to be very similar in personality and temperament. “Narry” is like the band-aid on top of the loss of “Larry Stylinson,” but we’ll get to that eventually.
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6. Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran and Styles’ bromance is so real that there’s a popular fan rumor that they call each other Harry and Ron. A bromance modeled after the greatest bromance of all time? Sign me up. It’s ironic that Styles and Sheeran managed to stay close even after the way things ended between Styles and Sheeran’s other BFF Taylor Swift, but that’s just a testament to what an awesome friend Sheeran must be. They agreed to share custody instead of making him take sides.
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7. Mick Jagger
All right, so Styles isn’t exactly in a bromance with Mick Jagger yet. However, that’s not for lack of trying on his part. He utterly idolizes Jagger (and some even say that Styles looks like Jagger did when he was young) and the two have tweeted one another in the past. Sugarscape reported in July 2014 that Styles and Jagger had gone for drinks together, so if this bromance isn’t already underway then it soon will be.
However, all of Styles’ bromances pale in comparison to…
8. Louis Tomlinson
The bromance so nice it — causes mass rioting on a regular basis years after it seems to have faded entirely. Perhaps that’s unfair of me to say. There’s clearly no bad blood between Louis Tomlinson and Styles, nothing to suggest that they are or have ever been feuding with one another. However, there’s a marked difference in the way “Larry Stylinson” acts around each other now compared to how they acted around each other back in their X Factor days when they moved in together and in the early days of One Direction’s fame when they couldn’t keep their hands or eyes off each other.
Nowadays, One Direction fans eagerly hoard the interviews and movie clips where Styles and Tomlinson are seated next to each other, let alone the ones where they speak to each other. Of course, those are the same fans that think the two are in a relationship and suffering from a conspiracy to hide that by their record company, but that is neither here nor there. The fact of the matter is that there is no bromance that Styles can fall into now that will be as beautiful to the One Direction fandom as Larry Stylinson was and still is.
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