Niall Horan: One Direction would have lost the plot without Louis Tomlinson

Singer Niall Horan said their former band

One direction

would not have been as successful a phenomenon as it was, if not for

Louis

Tomlinson.

Horan, 23, called Tomlinson 'an unbelievable guy', who was an integral part of the group.



"He's an unbelievable guy, a great singer and someone that if, I'd say, we would have lost the plot along the way if we hadn't had Louis,"

Horan

said.

Recently, the 'Just Hold On' singer had said in an interview that he was considered 'forgettable, to a certain degree' by some of the fans when he was a part of the boy band.

Refuting Tomlinson's remarks, Horan said, "He was a very, very, very, extremely vital member of One Direction. He's a great man."

"I thought it was very honest interview, I thought he was brilliant in it. He knows that none of us ever thought that or think that," he said.