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Liam Payne, Former One Direction Member, Dead astatine 31
The communicative of Liam Payne's beingness volition ever see One Direction.
The vocalist died connected Oct. 16 aft falling from a 3rd level edifice room successful the Palermo vicinity of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the section authorities from the Sistema de Atencion Medica de Emergencia told Telemundo. He was 31.
His decease marks a tragic crook successful the past of One Direction, which was formed successful 2010 erstwhile Payne was grouped with Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik to vie unneurotic arsenic a lad set connected play 7 of U.K.'s The X Factor.
"He would decidedly shine," justice Nicole Scherzinger said of Liam during deliberations with Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh, arsenic seen successful behind-the-scenes amusement footage of however the radical was formed. "He could actually, maybe, beryllium the leader."
Walsh besides went to bat for Payne astatine the time, saying the then-14-year-old had the "confidence" to beryllium a star.
"He's good," the euphony manager noted. "He's consistent."
Indeed, Payne and the remainder of One Direction went connected to become euphony sensations. Though they finished 3rd connected The X Factor, they were rapidly signed to a grounds statement and released their debut medium Up All Night successful 2011.
"We got bully astatine what we did," Payne shared successful a 2022 interrogation connected Logan Paul's Impaulsive podcast. "Once you knew what the radical wanted, it's precise casual to redo it again."
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Liam stayed with the set until 2016, soon aft Malik near the group and One Direction released their 5th and last medium Made successful the A.M. Each subordinate went connected to find further occurrence arsenic solo musicians, with Payne keeping tabs connected his erstwhile bandmates from clip to time.
In fact, the "Strip That Down" creator forged a overmuch stronger enslaved with Tomlinson aft One Direction disbanded.
"He's my champion mate now," Payne said on Impaulsive," but successful the band, we hated each other."
To relive One Direction's milestone moments, support reading.
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They've Got the X Factor
Despite winning implicit audiences astir the world, the set finished successful 3rd spot down Rebecca Ferguson and Matt Cardle successful 2010.
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Live From New York
The U.K. set made their Saturday Night Live debut successful 2012 with an electrical show of their azygous "One Thing."
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Winning Big astatine the 2013 VMAs
The set took location the coveted moonman trophy for Best Song of the Summer for their opus "Best Song Ever."
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Hitting the Big Screen
The set gave fans a behind-the-scenes look astatine unrecorded connected the roadworthy of their This Is Us Tour with their performance documentary movie This Is Us.
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Music Royalty
While attending the Royal Variety Performance, the set met Prince William and Kate Middleton.
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One Direction Minus One
In March 2015, Malik announced that helium was leaving the band to motorboat his solo career.
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End of an Era
After releasing 2015's Made successful the A.M. arsenic a foursome, Styles, Payne, Horan and Tomlinson announced that One Direction would instrumentality an indefinite hiatus.
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Fatherhood
Tomlinson became a father to his lad Freddie Reign successful 2016. One twelvemonth later, Payne welcomed his son Bear Grey with ex Cheryl Cole.
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Reunion?
In 2020, fans suspected that a reunion of sorts was underway erstwhile Styles, Payne, Tomlinson and Horan each started pursuing Malik connected X—then known arsenic Twitter—again.
Further fueling reunion rumors, Payne told The Sun astatine the time, "We've got a 10-year day coming up truthful we've each been speaking unneurotic a batch implicit the past fewer weeks which has been truly nice."
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Friends First
Payne be the London premiere of Tomlinson's 2023 documentary All of Those Voices.
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