--- title: Louis Tomlinson of One Direction Curses BBC Presenter description: Louis Tomlinson of One Direction curses during interview with Stephen Nolan on The Nolan Show canonical: https://time.com/4083165/one-direction-louis-tomlinson-bbc-stephen-nolan/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-22T16:15:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:26:15.678Z og:title: Watch One Direction's Louis Tomlinson 'Curse Out' a TV Host og:description: Louis Tomlinson of One Direction curses during interview with Stephen Nolan on The Nolan Show og:url: https://time.com/4083165/one-direction-louis-tomlinson-bbc-stephen-nolan/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch One Direction's Louis Tomlinson 'Curse Out' a TV Host twitter:description: Louis Tomlinson of One Direction curses during interview with Stephen Nolan on The Nolan Show twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch One Direction's Louis Tomlinson 'Curse Out' a BBC Presenter  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Oct 22, 2015 4:15 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Oct 22, 2015 4:15 PM UTC BBC radio presenter Stephen Nolan shared a video from his conversation with One Direction star Louis Tomlinson on _The Stephen Nolan Show_, in which the boy band member jokes that the broadcaster is “a little s\*\*\*” for not listening to the group’s new single “Perfect” before they chatted. As tabloids have gotten carried away proclaiming that the musician cursed out a journalist, the host clarified that it was all in good fun and that the young star was not combative in any way: > [](https://twitter.com/StephenNolan/status/657186537185136641) Louis Tomlinson of One Direction Curses BBC Presenter ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4083165/one-direction-louis-tomlinson-bbc-stephen-nolan/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4083165/one-direction-louis-tomlinson-bbc-stephen-nolan/"},"headline":"Watch One Direction's Louis Tomlinson 'Curse Out' a BBC Presenter","datePublished":"2015-10-22T16:15:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:26:15.678Z","description":"It was all in good fun","url":"https://time.com/4083165/one-direction-louis-tomlinson-bbc-stephen-nolan/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4083165/one-direction-louis-tomlinson-bbc-stephen-nolan/","name":"Watch One Direction's Louis Tomlinson 'Curse Out' a BBC Presenter"}}]}] ```