Bunch of jokers! One Direction want to star in their own prank TV series

 
Jokers: Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Harry Styles want to star in their own prank TV series
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28 August 2013
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One Direction have been inspired by the BBC's Impractical Jokers and are said to want their own prank TV show.

1D could be close to signing a deal for a new prank programme after Louis Tomlinson became hooked on Impractical Jokers and told his band that they could have a future on the small screen.

The five-piece - Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Liam Payne and Zayn Malik - have also fallen in love with Jeremy Beadle's hidden-camera series Beadle's About.

Louis is quoted by the Daily Star as saying: "We want to do a TV prank show like that new one on BBC Three. It was funny and full of practical jokes. We would like to do a show like that and prank celebrities."

Meanwhile, heartthrob Harry - who is arguably the fans' favourite member of the group - was reportedly surrounded by 20 security guards yesterday as he made his way through the airport in New York City following the boy band's premiere for their new movie, One Direction: This Is Us, according to the New York Post newspaper.

The 19-year-old old doesn't appear to have much luck with avoiding adoring fans as just last month he was almost reduced to tears after his security team lost control of a crowd of screaming girls outside his accommodation in New York and he was forced to drop to his hands and knees and shuffle to his car.

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