According to authorities, the pop sensation, who rose to stardom on The X Factor in 2010, passed tragically after plummeting from the third storey of an Argentine hotel.
Along with Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, and Zayn Malik, Liam was one of the five members of One Direction.
Anne Twist, Harry’s mother, a former bandmate, paid her respects by sharing a heartbreaking emoji on Instagram with the remark, “Just a boy.”
After he passed away on Wednesday at approximately 17:00 (21:00 BST), celebrities shared their sorrow and recollections of the father, who had a son named Bear with Girls Aloud star Cheryl, his previous wife.
Singer Olly Murs, who appeared on The X Factor a year before One Direction, posted on Instagram that he was “lost for words” and called Payne’s passing “devastating.”
Speaking largely about “how annoyingly good his hair always looked, or our love for Becks, the old XF [X Factor] days, and the tour we shared together,” Olly claimed that they always had a good laugh when they first met.
It hurts to see Liam’s life end so young because we had similar interests and aspirations. For his family and, of course, his kid Bear losing a father, I am genuinely heartbroken and devastated.
The X Factor host when Liam made an appearance, Dermot O’Leary, shared a picture of the two of them on stage with the following caption on Instagram:
