CNN —Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to local police. Payne rocketed to global stardom as part of One Direction, the massively popular boyband that was created on the British version of the X Factor in 2010. Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Zane Malik and Niall Horan are seen during an X Factor press conference in London in 2010. Later in the series, judge Nicole Scherzinger grouped Payne together with Styles, Tomlinson, Horan and Malik to form One Direction. Tweedy is an former X Factor judge who was present for both of Payne’s X Factor auditions.

Source: CNN October 18, 2024 03:42 UTC