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
Liam Payne has spoken out about the complications of shared parenting during the coronavirus pandemic. The singer, 27, who announced his engagement to model Maya Henry in August, welcomed son Bear with his then partner Cheryl Cole in 2017.
Following the pair’s amicable split in 2018, they have been co-parenting their little boy. In an Instagram Live video with producer Ben Winston, Payne revealed that he gets tested for Covid-19 every time he goes to see the three year-old.
The proud dad told Winston, who he worked with on One Direction’s 2013 ‘This is Us’ documentary that the health crisis had made the situation “dead complicated”.
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