Louis Tomlinson and his girlfriend Zara McDermott look loved-up at the World Cup as the couple made a rare public appearance for a date night09:35, 16 Jul 2026Updated 09:35, 16 Jul 2026Louis Tomlinson and girlfriend Zara McDermott made a rare public appearance last night as the couple was spotted enjoying the World Cup match as England took on Argentina.‌Louis, 34, and Zara, 29, wore matching bright red England t-shirts and sipped on cans of beer in the VIP section of Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.‌As the camera panned over to the couple, Louis couple be seen grinning at his girlfriend as he chatted to her and another friend, watching England lose 2-1 to Argentina. in the semi-final match.‌Zara was previously in a relationship from 2019 until 2024 with former Made In Chelsea star Sam Thompson. The couple split at the end of 2024 and a few months later in early 2025 she began dating the former One Direction star.The couple lives together in the UK, and Zara has opened up about how she is unable to sleep without Louis. In her latest YouTube video, Zara said: "I would genuinely say my sleep situation, especially this last couple of weeks, has been beyond horrific. I was thinking the other day, this must be what it feels like when you're in the newborn trenches or when you have a child. This is the second time in the space of seven nights that I actually have not slept the whole night.‌"Like when I say not slept the whole night, I mean I haven't had one second of sleep. I have laid there the entire night. I'm so used to being in bed with my partner as well, we're always together, so when we're not together, and I'm filming somewhere, and I feel a bit discombobulated and I'm all feeling all over the shop, and then he's not there, and I sometimes just lose slight bearings of where I am and I don't have him with me."I find it like, it's really strange, I have never been the kind of person to fall asleep in the middle of a TV show or anything, but when we're together, I'm knocked out, I'm gone, I'm literally gone, the best sleep of my life."When we're apart, I can't fall asleep, I cannot fall asleep. I feel like there must, there must be some kind of psychological safety thing, in like when you're with your partner, you can actually fully relax and let your guard down and actually sleep.‌"Whereas, yeah when we're not together, I find sleeping I actually dread going to sleep because I'm like, I'm just not going to be able to sleep properly. And I think maybe I've got it slightly in my own head as well nowadays."‌Louis has also opened up about his romance with Zara, while on The Diary of a CEO podcast he said he was 'so in love' : "I’m a deeply, deeply romantic person. It’s also easy to be romantic when you are a creative… I really struggle to write in a fictional sense, I really struggle."He added: "For me, I have to have been living it, it has to be real to me. So, if I wasn’t feeling so good, like right now, I wasn’t feeling so in love… the record probably would have a slightly different feel to it."Since dating Louis, Zara has faced abuse from online trolls. A source told The Sun: "Zara can’t win with the trolls. She’s either accused of ‘following’ Louis around the world or is slated for not being a supportive enough girlfriend." They added: "It’s like she’s damned if you do, damned if you don’t."Article continues belowLike this story? For more of the latest showbiz news and gossip, follow Mirror Celebs on TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Threads.