Liam PAYNE has tragically died aged 31.
The former One Direction star was holidaying in Buenos Aires with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy when he fell from the third floor of a hotel. Liam, who was known for being one-fifth of the mega-band, found fame in 2011 after appearing on The X Factor, where judge Simon Cowell placed him in a band with Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, and Niall Horan.
After becoming one of the biggest pop groups in the world with five albums and four world tours, the boy band went on indefinite hiatus in 2016. Earlier this month, Liam attended bandmate Horan's Argentinian concert alongside his girlfriend Kate Cassidy.
He first auditioned for The X Factor in 2008 at the age of 14, singing Frank Sinatra's Fly Me To The Moon, with judge Simon Cowell telling him to return to the ITV reality show at an older age. He impressed the judges in 2010 singing Michael Buble's Cry Me A River before he was put with four other solo hopefuls at the boot camp stage of the competition – the group which later became One Direction
In 2017, Liam became a dad to son Bear.
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