For Alex Cooper’s five million odd “Daddy Gang”, each week feels like a rolodex through Hollywood’s elite as seemingly nearly every A-lister, including Jane Fonda and Hailey Bieber, sits down with the host for an episode of Call Her Daddy.
However, we predict this week to be one of Cooper’s most viewed, with former One Direction member, Zayn Malik, joining the podcaster for an interview.
As the first member to depart from the band in 2015, Malik has garnered a reclusive reputation for avoiding traditional press methods when it came to his music. An understandable approach considering Malik cited the desire to be “normal” and “able to relax and have some private time out of the spotlight” as the reason for leaving the band.
For the past six years, Malik’s only public appearances have come in the form of rare sightings at the Met Gala and on the streets of New York with his ex-girlfriend and the mother of his daughter, Gigi Hadid, further contributing to the mystique around him.
But as Malik told Cooper, he hopes this interview will shed new light on who he is as both an artist, person and father.
Of course, Malik’s interview comes after his former band member, Liam Payne, garnered a host of controversy after talking about his time in One Direction to polarising YouTuber Logan Paul.
As per Call Her Daddy’s teaser trailer, Malik will also open up about his experience as a teen idol and a fifth of one of the world’s best-selling boy bands of all time.
“I feel like we were so overexposed in the band, that’s why I’ve took [sic] the time I have to not even necessarily do interviews,” Malik told Cooper.
He noted that One Direction’s handlers dubbed him as the ‘mysterious one’, explaining, “that wasn’t necessarily my personality, I was just chill.”
“A lot of people have high-energy personalities and that’s just not the way I am,” he added.
At another point in the interview, Malik touches upon the relationship he has with his two-year-old daughter, Khai. “Since I’ve had my daughter the main thing in my mind is trying to be a good example to her that’s why I’m even doing this interview,” he explained.
“I used to get a lot of anxiety around having a conversation like this and I want her to be able to look at me and be like ‘my dad is doing this’.” Malik also noted that Khai brought the “colour” back into his life after a stage of feeling “vague, grey and boring”.
The teaser doesn’t reveal whether Malik discusses his relationship with Hadid, the controversy surrounding the harassment charges filed by Yolanda Hadid or where he stands with his former bandmates, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Payne.
Of course, as soon as the episode drops we’ll be devouring the content to bring you the most important highlights from the interview, so be sure to check back in later. for everything you need to know.
