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"One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson has said that he will not shy away from a rivalry with The Wanted. Tomlinson told Now that he was initially a fan of the fellow boyband before they started bad-mouthing his group in the press.   &amp;quot;I want to speak openly about this because it&amp;#039;s quite frustrating,&amp;quot; Tomlinson said. &amp;quot;I remember when I&amp;#039;d just done my first audition on The X Factor and I heard &amp;#039;All Time Low&amp;#039; for the first time. &amp;quot;I thought it was a great song by a great band. We met them on the show and they were nice.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;It changed all of a sudden. There was one press story where they were bad-mouthing us. I thought maybe that had been twisted.  &amp;quot;But then there ended up being about ten stories and they&amp;#039;ve been caught on camera doing little things.&amp;quot; Tomlinson added: &amp;quot;I just think, &amp;#039;If you want to create that rivalry, then let&amp;#039;s do it.&amp;#039; We&amp;#039;re not bothered about the friction or the rivalry. &amp;quot;But I&amp;#039;m not going to shy away from it because that isn&amp;#039;t the person I am. I don&amp;#039;t think it&amp;#039;s fair to me or any of the lads.&amp;quot; Tomlinson has previously said that he would be happy for The Wanted to support One Direction, before appearing to mock the group.  &amp;quot;I was going to say something rude then. Or something sexual,&amp;quot; he added. &amp;quot;But that&amp;#039;s something The Wanted would say.&amp;quot;  The Wanted&amp;#039;s Max George recently admitted that the groups are &amp;quot;not the best of friends&amp;quot; and accused the group of making &amp;quot;little comments in interviews when we&amp;#039;re mentioned&amp;quot;. Previously, George claimed that there was &amp;quot;no rivalry there&amp;quot;, with his bandmate Tom Parker adding that &amp;quot;they&amp;#039;re doing their thing and we&amp;#039;re doing our thing and I think it&amp;#039;s just great with the two British bands in the US&amp;quot;. Earlier this year, George had said that his group was &amp;quot;more of a music band&amp;quot; than One Direction, who were &amp;quot;more faces, if you know what I mean&amp;quot;.  Speaking before One Direction topped the US Billboard album chart with their debut, George added: &amp;quot;Our song [&amp;#039;Glad You Came&amp;#039;] is number four in the charts... Maybe when they have a song right next to us in the charts over there, they&amp;#039;ll be competition.&amp;quot; Liam Payne had said that while The Wanted were nice to their faces, they were &amp;quot;really trashy&amp;quot; about his band in the media. The Wanted&amp;#039;s Nathan Sykes suggested earlier this year that the rivals could collaborate for a charity single and suggested that the media had attempted to invent a rivalry between the groups. The full Louis Tomlinson interview appears in Now magazine, available tomorrow (November 6). "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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