First my friend Caroline Flack, now Liam Payne – how many more?
The IndependentWith those three words, Harry Styles’s mother spoke for so many who woke up to the news on Thursday morning that the singer Liam Payne had died. open image in gallery One Direction during their days as ‘X Factor’ contestants The sadness and anger following her death is something everyone close to her still struggles with. Payne, as we know, made his name as a teen on The X Factor – a baby-faced 14-year-old who captured the audience's hearts with his rendition of Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon”. open image in gallery Caroline Flack’s death in 2020 shocked many and inspired calls ‘to be kinder’ Of course, not everyone becomes a victim. It’s heartbreaking to hear the testimony of a young woman staying in the same hotel as Payne saying that he had told her: “I used to be in a boy band – that's why I’m so f**ked up.” I have shame and regret about how during my years as Mr Showbiz, we treated celebrities’ lives as bloodsports.
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