Liam Payne: A teenager thrust into global boyband mania before solo artist fame
Liam Payne has died aged 31 (Ben Birchall/PA)
Liam Payne’s journey to stardom began when he was just 14 years old at his lesser-known first audition for The X Factor.
The English teenager reached the judges’ house stage and no further in 2008, but came back two years later as Simon Cowell had asked.
