( CNN ) -- Singer Zayn Malik is heading in `` One Direction '' -- toward the altar . One Direction member Malik is engaged to girlfriend and Little Mix member Perrie Edwards , a representative for their mutual label , Columbia Records , confirmed to CNN . Photos : Boy bands through the years . `` Zayn and Perrie are engaged , but any further detail regarding their relationship is private , '' the rep said . Speculation about the pair heated up after Edwards appeared at the London premiere Tuesday of the One Direction documentary `` This is Us '' sporting a diamond sparkler on her left ring finger . Edwards ' mother , Debbie Dufty , told Real Radio that Malik was traditional and asked her for her daughter 's hand in marriage . Dufty said she was thrilled after the pair got engaged on Sunday . `` It 's wonderful because Zayn 's absolutely gorgeous and Perrie loves him to pieces and it 's just perfect , '' she told the radio station . `` They just get on so well together and they understand each other so it 's just fabulous ! '' Little Mix is a British girl group that formed in 2011 during season eight of the U.K. 's `` The X Factor . '' They have been compared to The Spice Girls .
One Direction 's George Michael got engaged on Twitter . His girlfriend is a member of a British pop group . Her mother said Malik asked for her daughter 's hand .