Nicole Scherzinger and Harry Styles first met when she was a judge on The X-Factor. That was pre-One Direction, when Harry was just 16 years old. Now fast-forward about three years to a time when Nicole Scherzinger and Harry Styles hooked up.

Yes, you read that correctly. When Nicole Scherzinger and Harry Styles next met, he was 19 to her 35 years, but that didn’t stop them from having some fun just the same.

“Harry was obviously very taken by Nicole, who is stunning, and he had always looked up to her,” a source tells The Sun. “She was a guest judge on X Factor at the time One Direction were formed, and has always claimed credit for putting the band together, even though Simon Cowell says it was his idea. But they hooked up over three years later when Harry had matured and was a member of the world’s biggest ban. Harry was 19 at the time but had an old head on his shoulders because he’d already been in a relationship with Caroline Flack who was 14 years older than him.”

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— OK! Magazine (@OK_Magazine) October 17, 2015

It was at an after party for the Brits Awards in February 2014 that the hookup took place.

“They were openly all over each other at Sony’s post-Brits event,” the source adds. “They were sitting next to each other, having lots to drink and wildly flirting. It was very clear there was an electric chemistry between them and something had gone on.”

Nicole Scherzinger recently broke things off with Lewis Hamilton again. Do you think she has any thoughts about getting things on with Harry Styles again? Or was that simply a one-night stand for the former Pussycat Dolls member?

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— The Daily Record (@Daily_Record) October 17, 2015

Nicole Scherzinger and Harry Styles would definitely make a great-looking couple. Would their fans move past the May-December thing they had going? Or would that simply be too much for them to handle?

What are your thoughts about Harry Styles and Nicole Scherzinger?

Hot or not?