Former One Direction singer Liam Payne admitted Simon Cowell helped set him up with Cheryl in a resurfaced interview with Ant Middleton from 2019

This week, the former One Direction member Liam Payne died after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aries. Payne was just 31, and his group provided formative experiences for millions of people. After Payne’s passing, his former One Direction bandmates shared a joint statement of mourning. On Thursday night, Maggie Rogers paid her own kind of tribute, covering One Direction’s “Night Changes” in Boston.

The singer had Simon Cowell to thank for his relationship with Cheryl after the star revealed it was the X Factor judge who set the pair up. 

The One Direction singer penned a letter to his younger self

DERMOT O’LEARY has paid tribute to former One Direction singer Liam Payne who has died aged 31. Payne died last night after falling from the third-floor balcony at a hotel in the Palermo area of Buenos Aires in Argentina. The singer rose to fame on The X Factor as a member of One Direction alongside Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Harry Styles. The quintet placed third in the competition and were signed up to Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment, marking she start of a partnership that would launch them as one of the highest-selling boy bands of all time. Just days before his death, Payne had sang alongside former bandmate Horan at his concert in Buenos Aires. Westmeath-born Horan has just completed a world tour and his South American dates marked the last of his concerts. One Direction's (L-R) Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Liam Payne pictured in 2010 O’Leary, who was a presenter on The X Factor at the time of Payne’s appearance, paid tribute to the Wolverhampton-born star…

Liam first found fame at the tender age of 14 on The X Factor, and would go on to captivate the world with his vocal ability and sheer star appeal

The former One Direction star and the former X Factor judge formed a close relationship after the show aired

The 31-year-old ITV The X Factor star died following a tragic balcony plunge in Buenos Aires, in Argentina, where he was supporting pal Niall Horan.

Liam and Kate have been together for two years, but the star has had a number of relationships in the public eye since he rose to fame in 2010 as one fifth of One Direction

The star's former band members lead tributes to the singer, who died aged 31 after falling from a balcony.

The pair initially crossed paths in 2008, when Liam first auditioned for the show but did not get through that year, and reconnected in 2015 after Cheryl's second marriage ended

Liam first crossed paths with Cheryl Tweedy back in 2008, when the former One Direction star first auditioned for The X Factor, eventually reconnecting in 2015 after Cheryl's second marriage ended