Simon Cowell Doesn't Know if One Direction is Done for Good

Simon Cowell flies into the wind while riding a jet ski during vacation on Tuesday (August 25) in Capri, Italy.

The 55-year-old X Factor UK judge recently opened up about One Direction‘s split and whether he thinks it will be permanent.

“I don’t know if they’re going to split up to be honest with you,” Simon told Yahoo UK. “Even though they were young, that was a grueling schedule and after a while I could see they were exhausted so when they asked how I felt about it I said for them to do whatever they want. I’ve known for a while that they were going to take 2016 off, and they had to on their workload.”

He continued, “I said, ‘Make your own decisions, I hope you stay together but you’ve got to want to do it for yourselves.’ But they’re smart guys and they’ll work it out.”

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