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Harry Styles: singer, songwriter, actor and now, executive producer.
Specifically, an executive producer on Happy Together, which stars Damon Wayans Jr and Amber Stevens West as a happily content couple, whose lives are turned upside down when a super famous popstar comes to live with them.
The reason Harry is involved in the show? Because the show is loosely based on a time in his life when he lived in producer, Ben Winston's, attic for almost two years!
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During the press tour, Ben shared the full story of when Harry lived in his house:
"A few years ago, maybe seven or eight years ago, I was making a film with One Direction, directing a few of their music videos. I had just moved into my very modest, quiet house in London, in the most suburban area of London you could possibly imagine, and a young man who I was working with at the time with the name of Harry Styles, who is one of the EPs on this show, asked me if he could live in out attic for what would only be a couple of weeks."
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"I went home and I said to my wife, Meredith, 'It's a bit of an odd request. Harry, this guy from the band, would like to stay in our attic for a couple weeks. How would you feel about that?' She said, 'As long as it's only for two weeks, I'm fine with it.' 18 months later, Harry moved out of our attic, and nobody ever knew that he was living there. It was the most, like I said, suburban quiet street you could ever imagine. And the fact is, no one ever knew."
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"A few years later, he did an interview in Rolling Stone magazine and spoke about that time, how living with a very normal, slightly boring family, which was me and my wife, helped him while he was living quite an abnormal life, and it gave Harry and I, and with our EPs Jonathan Berry and Michael, the idea that actually this could be quite a fun sitcom and quite a cool TV show."
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If you're wondering if living with a rockstar in your attic is nothing but continuous fun, you might be wrong.
"Unfortunately, our lives really were very boring. He would come in. He'd go to sleep. We would do a few chores, and there wouldn't be anything very funny about it," Ben explained. "So when we say [the show] is 'loosely inspired by,' that's because if we actually put what happened on the television, it wouldn't be that exciting."
So how did two weeks turn into 18 months?
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"The truth of it is Harry became a huge part of our family. We never wanted him to move out. He had been living with the other boys from the band. They'd all bought houses. It was that stage where they finished living with each other in each other's flats and what have you, and apartments. He had bought a house. The house wasn't going through for a couple of weeks. Then that two weeks came and went, and the house still hadn't gone through. Then he wanted to renovate it, and before you knew it, it was a time where, ultimately, his family were living four hours up the road, and he would prefer to live in this sort of modern suburban family unit rather than living on his own in a mansion. And I think everybody can relate to that, regardless of how famous you are."
Three years later, when Ben needed a temporary place to live in Los Angeles, he returned the favour.
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And also, how did no one know that Harry was living there for so long?
"He would sometimes have to lose paparazzi on a night out because they would chase him home or whatever, and he would have to lose them before he would come home. So sometimes he would call and say, 'I'll be home in 30 minutes,' and then three hours later he would show up. That's because he never wanted to drag any photographers back home. I think it would have complicated a very nice situation had people known he lived there, so it was very discreet."
Can you imagine what it would be like to have Harry Styles live in your house?
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