Zayn Malik has revealed he has been repeatedly kicked off Tinder as he returns to the dating scene – three years on from his split with Gigi Hadid.
The Pillowtalk hitmaker, 31, who shares daughter Khai, three, with Hadid, 29 – told NYLON that he has been booted off the dating app ‘once or twice’ as users didn’t believe it was genuinely him.
He said: ‘Everyone accused me of catfishing. They’re like, “What are you using Zayn Malik’s pictures for?”
‘It’s not been too successful for me, I’ll be honest.’
The star – who previously revealed he had ‘never truly been in love’ reflected on his dating past – saying when he was dating former fiancee Perrie Edwards, 30, from the ages of 17 to 21 – he ‘didn’t know anything.’
Zayn Malik has revealed he has been repeatedly kicked off Tinder as he returns to the dating scene – three years on from his split with Gigi Hadid
He said: ‘From 21 to 27, I was with Gi, and we had a kid, and I didn’t really take much time to get to know myself. It’s probably wise to take your time before you fully invest in another human being as a lifelong partner’ (pictured 2016)
He said: ‘My parents were kind of old-school, so I never brought a girlfriend home or anything, When I got the chance to do that, I jumped straight in, two feet first, and was like, “I’m going to have a girlfriend, and she’s going to live with me. This makes me a grown man.”
‘From 21 to 27, I was with Gi, and we had a kid, and I didn’t really take much time to get to know myself. It’s probably wise to take your time before you fully invest in another human being as a lifelong partner.’
This comes after Zayn made rare comments about his romance with Hadid and his time with One Direction in a bombshell interview.
The pop star revealed the candid insights during a chat with The Zach Sang Show on Wednesday, admitting he’s never ‘truly been in love’ despite sharing a daughter with the supermodel and that the five members of the boy band ‘resented each other.’
The singer subtly referenced his relationship with Gigi while dissecting songs from his upcoming album Room Under the Stairs, saying he’s ‘moved on’ after welcoming their daughter Khai in September 2020.
‘I don’t know if I’ve actually truly been in love at this point,’ Zayn added.
As for the resentment in the One Direction camp, he claimed the members’ maturity level at the time and their original solo ambitions had them in ‘competition’ with each other.
The Pillowtalk hitmaker, 31, who shares daughter Khai, three, with Hadid, 29 – told NYLON that he has been booted off the dating app ‘once or twice’ as users didn’t believe it was genuinely him
The star opened up about co-parenting saying he has Khai ’50 per cent of the time’ but would like to have her 90 per cent
The star – who previously revealed he had ‘never truly been in love’ reflected on his dating past – saying when he was dating former fiancee Perrie Edwards , 30, from the ages of 17 to 21 – he ‘didn’t know anything’
‘I think the thing was, we were so young. And when we were in the band, we didn’t have that level of compassion yet because we didn’t understand life yet. We just were young kids that just were thrown in the situation.’
Zayn shot to fame when he competed on The X Factor in 2010 and the judges put him into the boyband alongside Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson.
He left the group in March 2015, months before they went on indefinite hiatus.
‘Now, when I look back at it, I can look at it in a positive light and be like, all these guys came from similar backgrounds to me. They had nothing, they worked their [butts] off, they wanted to sing, they got the thrown in a band,’ he continued.
‘And you know, we resented each other to a certain degree because we were solo artists that were put in a band, and we should have never felt that way.
‘It should have never been a competition. It should have always been a camaraderie, and we should have always been there for each other and had each other’s backs.’
During his conversation on the Zach Sang Show, Zayn didn’t directly mention Gigi by name when discussing his new songs, but he delved into how the lyrics feature experiences from a past relationship.
‘The first song that I wrote on the record was Alienated, and it was towards the end of my relationship. Like when me and my ex were breaking up,’ he divulged.
‘So there’s the heavy narrative of the kinds of things I was going through mentally in that situation and what I was thinking and how I was feeling.’
Zayn and Gigi initially dated from 2015 to 2018. After a brief split, they reconciled, only to break up again in 2019, before reuniting early in 2020 and welcoming their daughter Khai.
However, reported tension between Zayn and and Gigi’s mother, Yolanda Hadid, eventually led to their separation.
