One Direction star Harry, 30, burst into the spotlight in 2010 as a contestant on The X Factor where he was recruited into the manufactured boyband. He has since gone on to enjoy chart-topping status as a solo artist - and it is all thanks to his 56-year-old mum. Opening up on the Spinning Plates podcast, Anne told show host Sophie Ellis-Bextor, "I used to say he would end up on stage, doing what I had no idea. But he just always had something he was always happy, proper little entertainer, you know entertaining the other kids…”