Liam James Payne (born 29 August 1993) is an English singer and songwriter.
He rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction.
Payne made his debut as a singer when he auditioned for the British television series The X Factor in 2008. After being eliminated as a solo performer, he auditioned again in 2010 and was put into a group with four other contestants to form One Direction
One Direction star Liam Payne once freaked out fans by dangerously posing on a 34-floor high building ledge — a decade before he tragically plunged to his death from a hotel balcony.The haunting photo resurfaced after the 31-year-old fractured his skull and died instantly when he fell from his third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina late Wednesday.The chilling balcony stunt horrified One Direction devotees so much at the time that Payne was forced to issue a groveling apology, saying “it was a stupid and irresponsible thing to do.”The years-old photo showed Payne, then 20, balancing on the ledge of an apartment building in London in 2014.The snap, taken the same night of bandmate Zayn Malik’s 21st birthday, was shared online by one of Payne’s friends.It was quickly deleted, though, after sparking concern among One Direction fans.“Can you stop giving us heart attacks?
You’re not really Batman babe,” one tweeted at the time, while another wrote, “That photo of @Real_Liam_Payneon that balcony really gave me a mini heart attack … please don’t do that again!”.
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