{"id":1286,"date":"2013-08-21T16:21:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T20:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2013-08-21T16:21:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T20:21:51","slug":"one-directions-zayn-malik-engaged-to-perrie-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2013\/08\/21\/one-directions-zayn-malik-engaged-to-perrie-edwards\/","title":{"rendered":"One Direction&#8217;s Zayn Malik engaged to Perrie Edwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1288\" alt=\"edwardsring\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/08\/edwardsring.jpg\" width=\"446\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/08\/edwardsring.jpg 800w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/08\/edwardsring-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zayn Malik from the hot boy band One Direction has put a ring on it, according to reports that surfaced when his longtime girlfriend Perrie Edwards from Little Mix was spotted with a diamond on her ring finger Tuesday night at London&#8217;s premiere of &#8220;One Direction: This Is Us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Malik, 20 and Edwards, 20 began dating in 2011 after meeting backstage during the British &#8220;X Factor,&#8221; which Edwards&#8217; girl group Little Mix won.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1289\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1289\" style=\"width: 371px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1289\" alt=\"perryandzayn\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/08\/perryandzayn.jpg\" width=\"371\" height=\"312\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy: Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A representative for One Direction confirmed the rumors to MTV News saying, &#8220;Zayn and Perrie are engaged, but any further detail regarding their relationship is private.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Edward&#8217;s mother, the couple got engaged on Sunday she dished to UK&#8217;s Real Radio, &#8220;Yes, it is. It&#8217;s true. They got engaged on Sunday and it was absolutely lovely,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s wonderful because Zayn is absolutely gorgeous and Perrie loves him to pieces, so it&#8217;s just perfect. They just get on so well together and they understand each other, so it&#8217;s just fabulous.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zayn Malik from the hot boy band One Direction has put a ring on it, according to reports that surfaced when his longtime girlfriend Perrie Edwards from Little Mix was spotted with a diamond on her ring finger Tuesday night at London&#8217;s premiere of &#8220;One Direction: This Is Us.&#8221; Malik, 20 and Edwards, 20 began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-1286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}