Sneak Peek Of UK-Irish Boy Band 'One Direction' On The Nickelodeon Show "iCarly"; Behind The Scenes Of The Nickelodeon 2012 Kids' Choice Awards

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One Direction's 'iCarly' sneak preview; Kids' Choice Awards behind the scenes

A few scenes from One Direction's guest appearance on Nickelodeon sitcom "iCarly" were previewed on E! Entertainment Television's "E! News" on March 29, 2012. Meanwhile, One Direction spent the day in the Los Angeles area rehearsing for the group's performance on Nickelodeon's 25th Annual Kids' Choice Awards on March 31, 2012. The awards show takes place at University of Southern California's Galen Center in Los Angeles.

"iCarly" star Miranda Cosgrove (second from left) with One Direction, pictured from left to right: Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles and Liam Payne Photograph Credit: Nickelodeon

As previously reported, the "iCarly" episode (originally titled "iGot Jungle Worms" but changed "iGo One Direction") premieres on April 7, 2012 [Monday 16th April at 5.30pm on Nickelodeon UK and Ireland and Nickelodeon HD UK]. In the episode, the members of One Direction play versions of themselves, and they perform "What Makes You Beautiful."

(Click here to watch One Direction's "iCarly" performance of What Makes You Beautiful.)

The episode's storyline has Harry Styles pretending to have an illness to get sympathy and affection from Carly (played by Miranda Cosgrove). The other members of One Direction then play a prank on Styles and pretend they are going to replace him in the band.

The "E! News" segment showed one of the scenes with Styles saying, "I'll be ready. Just please don't let me sing or dance." In another scene, he is sitting on a chair and clutching his stomach, while One Direction's Niall Horan, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson stand around him. Styles asks, "Will somebody hold me?" His band mates step away from him and say, "No!"

One Direction filmed the "iCarly" episode in January 2012. In an "E! News" interview on the set of "iCarly," Malik said he watches "iCarly" back in his native England: "I've got three sisters. I've got two younger sisters, and they watch the program as well. So I watch it with them. I spoke to my younger sister the other day. I took a few pictures of the ['iCarly'] set. She was really excited."

Horan explained the episode's plot, "Basically, Carly (Miranda) goes off on a trip in the jungle. And when she comes back, she comes back, she gets what's called 'jungle worms' from the water that she drinks."

Styles chimed in, "Them pesky jungle worms. It's fun! I just have to groan loudly a lot."

Meanwhile, on March 29, 2012, One Direction rehearsed for its Kids' Choice Awards performance at Center Staging in Burbank, California.

A photo of One Direction's seating arrangements at the awards show was posted on the Internet, and it shows One Direction in the second row, seated next Nicki Minaj. Heidi Klum's seat is directly behind One Direction.

One Direction came in third place on "The X Factor" U.K. in 2010.

One Direction was not eligible for the 2012 Kids' Choice Awards since One Direction's debut album, "Up All Night," was released in the U.S. on March 13, 2012, after the eligibility date. (One Direction is nominated for the U.K.'s 2012 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards categories, which are not shown during the U.S. telecast.) But given One Direction's massive breakthrough in America (including "Up All Night" debuting at No. in the U.S.), expect One Direction to get multiple nominations at the 2013 Kids' Choice Awards.