Niall Horan picks ex Ellie Goulding in TV dating game

Horan, 23, was promoting his first solo single, This Town, on " The Ellen DeGeneres Show" when the host decided to play a speed-fire Who'd You Rather? dating game.

London, Oct 28: One Direction star Niall Horan seems to have not forgotten former girlfriend Elli Goulding as he picked the singer’s name to go on a date.

Horan, 23, was promoting his first solo single, This Town, on ” The Ellen DeGeneres Show” when the host decided to play a speed-fire Who’d You Rather? dating game.

Posting up photos of a series of celebrity beauties, she asked Horan to pick one girl to date over another, reported Contactmusic. After picking Rihanna over bandmate Harry Styles’ ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift and stars like Demi Moore and Selena Gomez, he then settled on Goulding over Kendall Jenner, Jennifer Lopez and Rita Ora, prompting the host to name her the winner, adding,

“If Ellie’s watching, there’s your guy”. Goulding briefly dated Horan in 2013 and the former couple has remained friends.