One Direction made £27million Each Before They Split, Look Who They Spent It On!

So, One Direction are to split and millions of teenage hearts are breaking. Yet, even as we heard the news yesterday and parents were warned to watch out for signs of their daughters self-harming, there was one important caveat: it won’t be until March next year. For while most bands break-up with immediate effect, having been riven with bitter infighting, hatred and feuds for years, One Direction’s is rather different.

They’ll spend the next six months continuing their latest world tour, before launching a Christmas album in December then honouring all their promotional commitments throughout February.Rock ’n’ roll it ain’t more like their slickest marketing gimmick yet. And some might say most cynical. Yes, they may have grown sick of the relentless lifestyle but, it seems, there’s one thing they’re not yet sick of  the money. And what a lot of money there is. Each of the five members Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik, who left earlier this year is believed to have earned somewhere in the region of £27million ($44million) during their five years in the band. Of course, much has been blown on fast cars, flash watches and mansions in the Home Counties, but behind the scenes they’ve also each been spending a small fortune on something else their families.
For despite the tattoos and the rumours of drug-taking and cheating on girlfriends, all the boys who are from working-class families are exceptionally close to their parents and siblings. Indeed each has bought, or tried to buy, a new house for their mum or dad.Take 22-year-old Zayn. Not only has he bought a fabulous new four-bedroom home in Bradford for his mum Tricia, a school cook, but he also splashed out £200,000 ($320,000) on a new-build property in Dorset last year for the mother of his then fiancee, Perrie Edwards of girlband Little Mix.

Very generous but perhaps, as proved by his and Perrie’s split last month, not entirely wise.
Some of them step forward the band’s biggest heart-throb Harry Styles  are even said to send a monthly allowance home to their mums. Louis has hired his mother and sister to work for him.
Both were also best men at their mothers’ weddings recently Harry’s parents Anne and Des split when he was seven, Louis’s parents Troy and Johannah also divorced when he was young  helping foot the bill for the ceremonies. There is also the £200,000 Dorset residence for Perrie’s mother. His other extravagances include a £32,000 Bentley Continental and a gold Rolex worth around £15,000.
Louis, 23, hasn’t forgotten his family either. His younger sister Lottie is One Direction’s make-up artist, while his mother Johannah, a trained midwife, is co-director of the 78 Productions record label he has set up.

She lives in a new £430,000 home her son reportedly bought for her in a Yorkshire village.
An insider said: ‘Due to his touring schedule, he doesn’t get to see his family very often so this is a great way of getting them involved.’ Louis is also house-hunting for a home in Los Angeles for Briana Jungwirth, a one-time fling who is expecting his baby in February next year. He’s said to have offered her a budget of around £3 million to spend on a home in a gated enclave where the infant can be raised securely and in privacy. Meanwhile, Liam Payne, 21, has bought a new place for his father Geoff, who works in a pub, and mum Karen, a nursery nurse who famously bought a life-size cutout of her son because she missed him so much. They’ve relocated from a modest £150,000 semi to a new £400,000 detached property in Wolverhampton.

He also recently bought them a £20,000 BMW and splashed out on an all-expenses paid holiday to Florida. (He bought a £33,000 Audi TT for former girlfriend Danielle Peazer, too.) Having said that, he’s spent more on himself, being the owner of the most expensive 1D home of all — a £5 million Home Counties pile with ‘incredible’ security measures. It’s perhaps Harry Styles’s mother who’s seen the biggest change to her life, though. When her son first auditioned for the TV show in 2010, she was a twice-divorced mum who’d recently been made redundant from the latest in a succession of office jobs and had once lived above a pub. She wore her hair in a sensible ponytail and a home-made T-shirt declaring: ‘We think Harry’s got the X Factor.’In October 2012, Harry splashed out £500,000 on a huge house surrounded by parkland and the kind of security which is necessary to deter casual visitors as a birthday present for her, close to their village of Holmes Chapel in Cheshire.
She’s now all designer clothes and perfect make-up, having made a cameo appearance on the Real Housewives Of Cheshire where, grasping a champagne flute at an art exhibition alongside the other ladies-who-lunch, she seemed to the manor born.

Harry, 21, also bought a £100,000 Porsche for his father, Des, a businessman who split from Anne when he was seven.Just one of the One Direction boys  Niall Horan, also 21  hasn’t bought his family a new home, although he’s paid off his mum Maura’s mortgage and bought her a car. And that’s not to mention the flat he rents for her to stay in near his pile in London.
His father Bobby, who is separated from Maura, still works in the local Tesco, behind the meat counter. He’s turned down the offer of a new house, telling Niall in June last year that he wasn’t interested in living the high life in a country mansion.‘I don’t want to be the idiot who walks in and throws money around,’ he says.With sensible parents like these, it may be some time before any of One Direction go the same way as so many boybands in the past bankrupt.