Zayn Malik 'signed off' One Direction world tour to recover from stress.

The pressures of boyband notoriety and endless media hounding appear to have conquered One Direction’s Zayn Malik, who has been signed off the band’s current world tour with stress. According to One Direction’s publicist, the singer is returning home despite having three dates in Asia scheduled for this week. “Zayn has signed off with stress and is flying back to the UK to recuperate,” says the group’s spokesperson. “The band wish him well and will continue with their performances in Manila and Jakarta.” Aside from the obvious pressures of being part of the biggest boyband in the world, Malik was the subject of two news stories which surfaced this week. The first concerned matters regarding his relationship with Little Mix’s Perrie Edwards, after he was pictured holding hands with another woman while in Thailand. On 18 March, Malik publicly apologised to his fiancée: "i'm 22 years old... I love a girl named Perrie Edwards. And there's a lot of jealous fucks in this world I'm sorry for what it looks like x" on his twitter account.