Zayn Malik is back with the One Direction boys, plus new tour dates announced!

And all is well in the world again… Zayn Malik has re-joined the rest of One Direction boys on their US tour.

The 19-year-old boybander had been absent from the 1D US tour after a family bereavement, but now he’s back with the boys and happily goofing around with his bandmates. Zayn tweeted to his fans, “Back in the US can't wait to see the boys hopefully they haven't missed me too much aha ! :D x x”

Zayn’s message was soon followed by a picture posted by Harry Styles of an unshaven Zayn poking his tongue out, with the caption read, “Like he never left.” Awww, we’re happy to hear the Zayn is back and doing his best to get back to normal after the death of his Aunt.

The boys have sent teenage girls across North America into a frenzy since they’ve been on their tour with US group Big Time Rush. The boys will appear at the Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards 2012 this year (watch it on Sunday 1 April at 5.30pm on Nick UK), and are nominated in two categories, Favourite UK Band and Favourite UK Newcomer.

But don't worry, the boys haven’t forgotten about their UK fans. Phew! They’ve just added some more dates to the 2013 tour. The new show in April are… 

London O2 arena (4, 5),
Newcastle Metro arena (10),
Sheffield Motorpoint arena (14),
Birmingham LG arena (17) 
Manchester arena (19)

One Direction ‘grateful for success’

One Direction are “grateful” for their success.

Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Niall Horran and Louis Tomlinson - know they are privileged to have been given the opportunities they have since competing on UK TV talent show The X Factor in 2010.

Speaking at the BRIT Awards - where they picked up the publicly-voted Best British Single for What Makes You Beautiful - at London's O2 Arena on Tuesday night, Harry said: “I think for us, we're all at the age of 18/19/20, to get to do this, people of our age don't get to do stuff like this very often and we're just so grateful to all the fans who have put us where we are, the radio stations and everything else, were just ever so ever so grateful to have this massive opportunity and we're just having fun and working hard.”

Despite their success, the group insists they haven't changed with fame.

Zayn told Bang Showbiz: “Us, we're still normal.”

Because they only received one statuette for their BRIT Award, the quintet decided to allocate the prize fairly - joking that they planned to divide it into pieces. -