Zayn Malik reveals his girlfriend Gigi Hadid helped make his Taylor Swift duet happen
Turns out Gigi really isn’t just a pretty face…
ZAYN Malik managed to score a collaboration with the world’s most sought after artist Taylor Swift, and all with a little help from his girlfriend Gigi Hadid.
The former One Direction singer surprised fans on Thursday with track I Don’t Want To Live Forever, in which Taylor sings, and is for the soundtrack for the upcoming Fifty Shades Darker film.
And while most artists would terrified at the prospect of having to approach this year’s highest earning artist with a song that they had penned, Zayn, 23, had a little help from his 21-year-old supermodel girlfriend.
“The interesting thing was, she is friends with Gi, so she already reached out after hearing it because [producer] Jack [Antonoff] had just played her the song anyway and she went in the studio the next day to record it,” he told Elvis Duran.
He continued: “She mentioned to me that she liked the song and I already kind of knew in the back of my head that she liked it.
“So I asked her if she wanted to be on it and she was cool with it.”
Gigi is in Taylor’s infamous “squad” which includes the likes of Blake Lively, Cara Delevingne, Ellie Goulding and Karlie Kloss.
Straight after the sizzling song was released it raced up the chart to number one, and Zayn has now hinted that there might be a video featuring him and Taylor.
This week Zayn’s ex-girlfriend Rebecca Fergusson declared that she would never speak about the singer who she dated while they were on The X Factor in 2010, again.
Although she’s discussed their relationship previously, the 30-year-old has called time on their past together, telling The Metro: “I hate the way it gets twisted.”
She added: “What annoys me the most, if I’m being honest is, I’m always asked about Zayn and I’ve never seen him asked about me.
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“I genuinely wish him well but I genuinely couldn’t give a sh*t. It’s such old news.
“That’s my final word and I’ll never speak about it again.”
Just days earlier, Rebecca had opened up about Zayn and his new girlfriend Gigi Hadid.
She said: “I don’t speak to him but his girlfriend is beautiful and I wish him well.”