Former One Direction member, Liam Payne is an English pop singer who recently made the headlines after posting an emotional Instagram story about love and relationship.
The 28-year-old songwriter made his debut as a singer in 2008 when he auditioned for the British Television series %u2018The X Factor%u2019.
He was eventually eliminated from the competition. He auditioned again for the show two years later and was put into a group of four by one of the judges on the show Simon Cowell.
The group was later named %u2018One Direction%u2019 and became one of history’s best-selling boy bands.
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The British-Irish boy band have recorded and released over 109 songs. Zayn Malik, one of the members of the band left the group in 2015. Since then the band has been on a so-called hiatus and the individual members have started releasing their own music.
After the band broke off in 2015, Payne signed a recording deal with Republic Records in North America. He released the lead single from his debut album %u2018Strip that down%u2019 that peaked three on the UK Singles Charts and made it to the top ten on the US Billboard Hot 100.
In the Instagram story he posted on Saturday night, he tagged his former fiance, Maya Henry and said %u201Cdon’t let someone go if you really want to love them even if you have to learn to love them through your own mistakes let your instinct tell you that you need them and keep them close we are always running of our time we never gain it%u201D.
The two had been spotted several times together until they confirmed the news of their romance in August 2019. They got engaged in 2020 and announced the news of their separation last month. At the time of the split, Payne had said that %u201CI’m more disappointed in myself that I keep on hurting people..I’ve just not been very good at relationships%u201D.
