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
Right before beginning their hiatus in Jan. 2016, the guys from One Direction appeared on James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke.
Nearly five years later, the group still hasn’t reunited, and fans have been begging James, who’s friends with all of the boys, to help get the ball rolling.
On the Sept. 9 episode of his talk show, James explained that he has no power when it comes to reuniting the group — but revealed that he does have some unseen footage of them to share from the filming of Carpool Karaoke!
It turns out that not everything made the final cut when the guys taped their Dec. 2015 segment, and James revealed a new clip of the group stopping at McDonald’s amidst the interview and singing.
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