The news comes a week after Malik decided to ditch the group's tour, citing "stress".
Unfortunately they have a London O2 Arena gig scheduled for the same night - ditching one group of fans to play for another may not go down too well.
So, why, after discovering FWD.us indirectly supporting the controversial Keystone Pipeline initiative, have would-be supporters flooded their Facebook page with scathing comments, and its A-list supporters, such as Tesla's Elon Musk, ditched the group?
Imagine paying roughly $100 to do a majestic nighttime manta ray dive in Hawaii only to be stranded in the dark waters when your tour boat captain inexplicably ditches the group.
When it was over, the bodies of several Iraqi soldiers were lying in a ditch, and a group of female Marines were putting away their M16 rifles.
Last year, a study by the anti-bullying pressure group, Ditch The Label, showed that one in 10 teenagers bullied at school had attempted to commit suicide, and a further 30 per cent went on to self-harm.
Local hospital officials concluded that one of the protesters drowned in a ditch after his group was hit with tear gas; the other two deaths were a result of rubber bullet wounds.
Before her breakout, the Kentucky-born, L.A.-reared singer ditched a girl group to write and release three R. & B. albums from her bedroom while her Zimbabwean father and Iowan mother endured the thump from down the hall.
When Pete Best was ditched by the group in favour of Ringo, the most painful test of Mr Aspinall's loyalty, he ended his affair with Pete's mother and moved out.As boss of Apple, a job he took in 1968 because the Beatles asked him, his loyalty was also tested.
If you are in a fight with a group, never ditch your friends to go with someone else.
