Noel Gallagher and Louis Tomlinson mock Zayn Malik for quitting One Direction

Liam Payne, from left, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan of One Direction perform onstage during the 2014 iHeartRadio Festival.

KIRTHANA RAMISETTI , BRIAN NIEMIETZ - Former One Direction member Zayn Malik was roundly mocked Wednesday, first by a snarky former bandmate and then by a British star irritated by his decision to leave the boy band.

First, Malik’s former bandmate Louis Tomlinson mocked a photo that producer Naughty Boy posted of Malik, who abruptly left the band in March.

“Remember when you were 12 and you used to think those Mac filters for your pictures were cool haha!” Tomlinson tweeted, making fun of the tinted image. “Some people still do HA!”

Malik took the bait. “Remember when you had a life and stopped making bitchy comments about mine?” he tweeted in reference to criticism he received when he changed his Twitter handle from @ZaynMalik1D to @ZaynMalik.

The twit-for-tat came on the same day that Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher dumped some unsolicited scorn on Malik for leaving One Direction to become, as Malik put it, a “normal” 22-year-old.

“It’s a strange thing for that lad to have done at that age,” the curse-loving Gallagher, 47, told Rolling Stone.

“You might have wanted to be a normal 22-year-old, but you won’t want to be a normal 25-year-old. (In 1D), you can be f------ anything that moves and gettin’ paid half a million dollars a week, you f------’ idiot.”

Gallagher’s advice and curses continued as he referenced his brother and former bandmate Liam and his expensive battle with the former journalist who bore his love child.

“F-----’ get a good accountant because life is very f-----’ long,” said Gallagher.

“My advice to anybody is to play the f-----’ long game. Success doesn’t last forever.”

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