Liam Payne ‘heckled in McDonald’s’ after X Factor rejection

metro.co.uk:

Liam Payne has said he was ‘ridiculed’ when he first tried to break the music industry in 2008 before finding One Direction fame on X Factor.

As we all lose ourselves over the thought of a One Direction reunion right now, it’s easy to forget the struggling starts some of the bandmates made, including Liam, 26, who said he was heckled in public after initially being rejected from the show.

He went on to find fame after placing third in 2010 as a member of One Direction, but had previously appeared on the UK talent competition two years earlier as a solo artist.

That time around he failed to make it through to the live shows. He told Jordan Stephens on his Spotify exclusive podcast Killing It: ‘I didn’t have any of the things that came with