Caroline Flack and Niall Horan have been ‘flirting’? What’s going on here, then?

Last night after the Music Trust Awards, Simon Cowell invited all his mates back to the Dorchester Hotel bar for a big after party. And the Mirror report that Caroline Flack and Niall Horan were in among the partygoers and were being very friendly indeed…

An onlooker claimed to the newspaper: “These two were the life and soul of the party, Cazza even looked disappointed at the end when he left to head off to a club, she was hugging him tightly and kissing him on the cheek.”

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Another alleged they’d overheard Caroline telling jokingly tell the One Direction star: “I’m old enough to be your mother.”

We all are, Caz.

Newly single Caroline is due a good laugh: after splitting with her on-off boyfriend Jack Street earlier this year, taking on the big job of fronting The X Factor with Olly Murs and recently revealing her traumatic experience with a stalker – it’s about time she got out to let her hair down.

And we’re pretty Niall is the perfect friend you need around when you want to have a giggle.