One Direction WILL perform at the Olympics closing ceremony *cue hysteric screams from teenage girls*

The What Makes You Beautiful singers are definitely taking part in the historic event that takes place on 12th August

The opening ceremony was praised for its brilliant representation of Britain but director Danny Boyle forgot One Thing - and that's One Direction .

They are one of the biggest bands in the UK and have been compared to The Beatles , so it's expected that some people - admittedly 1D obsessed people - were gutted when they didn't feature in the magical event last Friday .

But fans of the five-piece can rejoice because we can exclusively reveal that they WILL perform at the closing ceremony of the Games in two weeks.

They are expected to be joined by their pal Ed Sheeran , who wrote track Moments on their debut album and is writing a number of songs for their next one.

Other acts reported to be performing on August 12th are The Who, Take That, Queen and a reunion of the Spice Girls.

One Direction boys Niall Horan and Liam Payne have been tweeting their excitement about the Olympics.

Niall posted: 'Don't know if it's just me, but the excitement in London is unbelievable! Its gonna be a great games.'

While Liam revealed his ambition to compete in the historic event: 'If I wasn't in 1D, running the olympics would of been my dream :)'.

The boys are currently working on their second studio album and they've uploaded pictures on Twitter.

Irish heartthrob Niall also confirmed that he will be playing the guitar on a few tracks on the album that's expected to be released in September.

Watch One Direction singing More Than This acoustic for Disney, here . It's actually really good.

A spokesperson for One Direction refused to comment on the bands involvement in the closing ceremony.

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