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
two days before the 31-year-old star was found dead after he fell from the third-floor balcony of the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires Argentina.Influencer Kate Cassidy, 25, had traveled to Argentina with Payne for a short vacation amid their two-year romance and had returned to Florida before the tragedy.The influencer hails from Harrington Park, New Jersey — just northwest of New York City — and attended Northern Valley Regional High School, according to Daily Voice Bergen County.
She later graduated from Coastal Carolina University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in the spring of 2021, according to an Instagram post where she was holding a black graduation cap and gown.Cassidy has over 200,000 followers on both TikTok and Instagram and often posts about her outfits, food travel and adventures she would go on with Payne.Cassidy revealed she was a waitress when she met the pop star at a bar in Charleston, SC.“On the way to work my manager texted me and was like ‘Liam Payne from One Direction is here, you’re going to be taking care of him tonight,’” Cassidy said in a TikTok video uploaded Sept.
20,The content creator claimed Payne repeatedly asked her to sit at his table and eventually asked for her number. She forgot to put the +1 before her area code so he initially had issues contacting her.Eventually, he figured it out and took her to lunch, bowling, and a ghost tour the next day.The “What Makes You Beautiful” singer was first spotted with Cassidy in October 2022 when the pair went to a Halloween party in London dressed as Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson.
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