what happened with nick Louis and Eleanor?
I hate this topic because Nick still gets shit for it, but because I’ve seen people talk about recently it in a way which completely misrepresents the facts, I’m going to set out what happened here.
In October 2013 Louis posted his #papsaretwats tweet about not being able to leave the hotel room, when 1D were touring. The Breakfast team mentioned the tweet on the show, with Nick saying “I love a complainy popstar. It’s my favourite thing” and then saying Louis should wear a mask. A Finchy mask. Finchy was a former producer on Breakfast. Nick seems reluctant to talk about the tweet when it gets raised initially, he says it’s a bit “sweary” but they do go on to have a brief moment of banter about it.
Louis then tweeted @grimmers < @chrisdjmoyles. For those that don’t know, Chris did Breakfast for years and Grimmy took over from him.
Chris tweeted to say how delightful and handsome Louis is.
After the tweet from Louis, Nick tweeted ‘ooooh Stacey got out the wrong side of bed this morning’ with the nail painting emjoi. Meanwhile, Zayn waded in supporting Louis (saying something like he doesn’t know why people have to ‘get brave’) and Eleanor responded to the Eleanor update account with ‘me neither’ when they tweeted that they’ve never liked Grimmy. During this time, Harry tweeted ‘Shania Twain is so good’ because he’s a ridiculous human and I love him.
On Nick’s show a few months after (February 2014) there was a feature ‘who’s more annoying than…’ on Showquizness. Nick’s producer said Louis. Nick never mentioned his name and listed a bunch of different people. That didn’t stop people getting up in Nick’s mentions to the extent he had to ask ‘hey 1D fans!!!!! i never mentioned the word “Louis” on my show today so enough with the charming homophobic death threats yeh?’
As far as I know, Nick has never had any interaction with Eleanor or mentioned her name on social media, the radio or anywhere else. The only other thing I can think of is the picture of Nick and Miquita looking bored and holding hands, which gets used as ‘evidence’ that he was throwing shade at Eleanor. I don’t pay much attention to that as it tends to be used to drive forward conspiracy theories. The tweets above are the main public record of the ‘feud’ that gets brought up when people talk about Nick and Louis hating one another. It’s worth reiterating, Nick has mentioned Louis plenty of times on Breakfast before and since, they have been friendly at events they have attended together and Louis has said on multiple occasions he’s let knee-jerk reactions get the better of him on social media - something he’s even said during an interview with Nick. Of course, because it’s far less exciting to believe they might actually get on fine and just aren’t particularly friendly, those instances rarely get pointed out and there’s a tendency to focus on late 2013/early 2014 stuff and to paint Nick as the villain of the piece.
People have said this over and over, but I’m going to say it again. Nick is an out, gay man who has been on the receiving end of a torrent of abuse over the years, for his friendship with Harry and this supposed hate of Louis. There’s still plenty of ‘Nick can choke’ and ‘Nick doesn’t deserve to be within 10 feet of Louis’ stuff out there which I stumbled across before the latest Breakfast interview. I don’t like talking about it because I find it as infuriating as the ‘Nick uses Harry for fame’ narrative or the incredibly toxic ‘predatory older gay man’ stereotype, but I wanted to set the facts out just once. I love Louis AND Nick so I’ve got no interest in pitting them against one another based on events four years ago. What I do think the tweets make pretty clear though, is that both are eminently capable of defending themselves so I’m sure if anyone is still worrying about Louis getting bullied by big, bad Nick, they can hopefully chill.