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1. Liam Payne was born on the 29th of August, 1993. He died on the 16th of October, 2024. 2. Liam was the One Direction middleman – Louis and Zayn were older than him, while Harry and Niall were younger. 3. Along with Niall, Liam was a Virgo. According to the star sign he was analytical, observant, helpful, reliable and precise. 4. Liam has two older sisters named Ruth and Nicola. 5. Liam’s parents are named Karen and Geoff. 6. Liam’s favourite colour was purple. 7. Liam also took part in the 2008 series of The X Factor, making it through to Simon’s house in Barbados where he was cruelly eliminated. Simon thought he was too young and asked him to come back in two years – a move that worked out pretty well!! 8. Liam’s favourite film was the Toy Story trilogy. 9. Liam’s celebrity crush was Leona Lewis, and his man crush was stand-up comedian Michael McIntyre?! Nope, us neither! 10. Liam spent his childhood in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, the birthplace of Led Zeppelin legend Robert Plant and Slade’s Noddy Holder. 11. Liam once cried while watching Marley & Me. Bless. 12. Liam had a very unusual phobia – SPOONS! He admits it was “very strange”. He finally overcame it. 13. Liam had just over seven minutes of solos on One Direction’s debut album ‘Up All Night’, the second most, behind Harry. 14. Liam sang ‘Cry Me A River’ in his 2010 audition on X Factor and received a standing ovation. 15. When he had progressed to bootcamp, he covered Oasis’ ‘Stop Crying Your Heart Out.’ 16. Liam’s Twitter handle was @LiamPayne. He has 33 million followers (as of the 31st of October, 2024). 17. Liam follows more fans than all of his One Direction bandmates do altogether!! He follows 15.3K people (as of the 24th of August, 2013). 18. Liam was an avid fan of boxing. He took up the sport when he was bullied at high school. 19. Liam once confessed to owning a pair of pink hair straighteners. Nice! 20. Liam’s performance of ‘Cry Me A River’ on The X Factor back in the summer of 2010 was dedicated to an ex-girlfriend who cheated on him! He told The Sun, "One girl was the inspiration for me singing 'Cry Me A River' on The X Factor. That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful." 21. Liam shared the same middle name as Niall – James. 22. Liam started dating backing dancer Danielle Peazer during The X Factor in December 2010. It was reported that they had broken-up in May 2013. 23. After falling ill as a baby, Liam underwent years of tests until the age of four, when doctors discovered that one of his kidneys was scarred and dysfunctional. He had to have up to 32 injections a day to cope with the pain. Poor lad :(. 24. Due to his kidney problems, Liam didn't drink alcohol and had to look after himself. He told Digital Spy, "I have to be careful not to drink too much, even water, and I have to keep myself as healthy as possible. 25. In August 2012, Liam dropped the bombshell that his damaged kidney had miraculously started working again. He tweeted: “Just been for an ultrasound on my kidney turns out its fixed form when I was a baby!!! :o so now I have two :) #weirdnewsoftheday” 26. Before The X Factor, Liam once performed in front of 26,000 people at Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club. 27. When he auditioned for The X Factor, Liam was a music technology student at the City of Wolverhampton College. 28. Liam said that Justin Timberlake was his biggest influence, while Gary Barlow was also an inspiration. 29. Liam’s favourite animals were turtles! He had two pet turtles called Boris and Archimedes. 30. Liam was able to play the guitar. 31. Liam loved girls with nice eyes. 32. Liam hated it when girls were too confident. He liked them to be a little bit shy. 33. The one person guaranteed to make Liam smile was Louis. Ahhh! Liam said, “Even if I’m in a situation where I’m mad at him, the person who can make me smile is Louis. Whatever happens he’ll make me laugh about something because he’s that crazy.” 34. Liam would love to play a prank on Simon Cowell. 35. Liam said that just like his 1D bandmates, he was grounded. Speaking about the One Thing video shoot, he said, "Our video for out new single was filmed in London. We're not divas, we've got no interest in jetting off to the Caribbean just to shoot a video.” 36. Liam would like to shave his hair off. (He, in fact, did.) 37. If Liam could interview one pop star, it would be Usher. 38. Liam often defended his ex-girlfriend Danielle on Twitter when she received hate mail. One tweet reads, "#SometimesIHateTwitter when it becomes a place to abuse people who uve never met never did anything to you but you still choose to be cruel.” 39. In Sugarscape’s list of the 50 hottest males of 2011, Liam came eighth. In The Sun’s countdown he was 11th. 40. Liam’s nickname was Daddy Directioner as he was the most mature member of the band. 41. Liam loved singing in the shower. He often sung songs by The Script! 42. Liam often described himself as “the clumsy one” in One Direction. 43. Liam was nicknamed Cheesy Head by his sisters as a kid because he ate cheese crisps all the time. 44. When Liam went fishing in San Diego earlier this year he caught a baby tiger shark! Thankfully he put it back in the water. 45. In May 2012, poor Liam broke his toe by dropping his computer on it. Doh! He told Good Morning America: “I dropped a MacBook Pro on it, which is not a very exciting story at all.” That’s gotta hurt! 46. Liam's favourite love song was ‘End of May’ by Michael Bublé. 47. When Liam was younger his older sisters Ruth and Nicola made him dress in women’s clothes! He told The Sun, “They used to try to influence my fashion a bit. Which you know... may have involved a heel or two.” 48. Liam’s favourite track on ‘Up All Night’ was ‘I Want’. The song was penned by McFly vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Tom Fletcher. 49. Along with Louis, in April 2012 Liam did a 192 metre SkyJump off Auckland’s Sky Tower. David Beckham, Katy Perry, and Justin Bieber had all previously done the big jump. 50. Liam’s One Direction bandmates called him the Gary Barlow of their group. Niall told The Sun, "Liam has that Barlow aura. He says things like, 'Come on boys, let's roll. Let's get going'. He knows it and can't deny it." 51. After the audition shows of The X Factor, bookmakers made the Liam second favourite to win the talent competition behind Cher Lloyd. Liam, of course, was put together with Niall, Louis, Harry and Zayn to form One Direction later in the show. 52. Liam was a supporter of West Bromich Album Football Club. 53. Liam had a lot of respect for his chum Ed Sheeran. He called him “such a talented guy.” 54. Liam said that One Direction’s phenomenal global success seems “surreal” to him. Referring to hitting number one in the US with ‘Up All Night’, Liam told Daybreak, “It still seems strange to say that, everything's happened this quickly. We didn't expect to be over here releasing an album. I don't think it's quite hit home yet.” 55. When Liam was a Hits Radio DJ for a day on 1DHQ earlier this year, his playlist was One Direction ‘One Thing’, Ed Sheeran ‘Lego House’, One Direction ‘I Want’, Lloyd ‘Dedication To My Ex (Miss That)’, Nicole Scherzinger ‘Don’t Hold Your Breath’, Michael Bublé ‘Cry Me A River’ and One Direction ‘What Makes You Beautiful’. 56. Liam had broken up with Danielle 57. As well as being heavily into boxing, at school Liam was a member of the cross-country team and got up most mornings at 6am to go on long runs. 58. Liam said he was in “no rush” to get married. 59. Liam recently hooked up with Amy Winehouse’s goddaughter Dionne Bromfield in a West London recording studio. Producer Jim Beanz posted pictures of the two singers together. 60. Liam was five foot and 10 inches tall (about 1.78 metres). 61. When asked what name he would give his firstborn child, Liam said it would be Taylor. “I like the name Taylor,” he explained to KRB. “Taylor’s pretty neutral for a boy or a girl. That’s what I’m going to call my first child if I had children.” (He had a child named Bear!) 62. Liam said he was “ecstatic and humbled” when One Direction passed the 12 million record and DVD sales barrier. 63. In August 2012, Liam busked in the Westfield Shopping Centre in Shepherd’s Bush, West London. Liam sang the ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ vocals while Niall accompanied him on guitar. 64. A true international jet setter, Liam liked nothing more than returning to Wolverhampton to spend time with his family. His dad Geoff told local newspaper Star & Express, “Liam likes to get back home. He likes to get back to normality.” 65. Liam often had nightmares where he was naked in public places! “I dream of being back at school a lot and have been naked a few times,” he told The Sun. “And I have been in the park naked on a climbing frame.” 66. Liam had no plans to go solo in the future. In fact, he reckons it would be “massively boring.” (he had to) 67. Liam has over 500 fan pages on Facebook. 68. Liam’s official page on Facebook has over 1.4million likes (as of August 2012).
69. Liam recently fessed up that he and the 1D lads played a prank on Harry earlier this summer. "He fell asleep in the dressing room last week," Liam told the Daily Star. "We poured water down his trousers to make it look like he weed his pants. He doesn't care really." 70. Liam reckons he was the best dancer in One Direction. He told TOTP: “I have the best dance moves – I’m the king of the dancefloor! My signature dance move is the 1-2-3 flick. You’ll find it all over the internet…" 71. Liam got together with Danielle Peazer with a little help from Harry! He confessed: "This has never been told before, but when I actually got with my girlfriend, Harry was the boy that set us up… Harry is the magic match-up man." 72. Justin Bieber claimed that Liam copied his trademark hairstyle. When he saw a photo of Liam’s old haircut, Biebs said: “I mean, does that look a little familiar? Just a touch!” 73. In October 2011, Liam was left highly embarrassed by his mum Karen. He explained to radio station TFM: “My mum fell over the other day in front of a load of our fans. And farted. She fell over a bump in the floor and it came out. Bless her.” 74. Liam sings the first solo on 13 of the 15 tracks on ‘Up All Night’. 75. When he was younger, Liam had to split his turtles up as they were turning to cannibalism. He said: “I came home and my turtle was missing a foot. Splitting them is sad, but it’s best.” 76. When asked what One Direction member he’d eat first if he had to survive, Liam responded: “That’s a bizarre question. Zayn, I don’t know why!” 77. Liam is “not very good” with hot food. At Nandos the hottest he can go is medium. Wimp! ;) 78. Liam’s favourite two words were “brilliant” and “fantastic”. He admitted his enthusiasm annoys the boys: “I use them all the time and the boys hate it.” 79. Liam absolutely hated it when Harry stole his food. 80. One of the things that Liam most admired in life was Zayn’s huge quiff. However he didn't like it when Zayn got moody! 81. Before Harry came up with the band name One Direction, Liam suggested the call themselves USP – which stood Unique Selling Point. Lucky escape there guys!! 82. If Liam could have invented one app for a mobile phone it would have been an “anti spoons” one. We’re not quite sure how that would work! 83. Liam still got badly affected by nerves before gigs. In fact he sometimes got stomach-aches. 84. Abbreviations were not Liam’s strongest point. He used to think that YOLO means Yummy Oreos Love Origami and DTF stands for Dedicated to Fans. 85. If Liam could make his own ice cream it would have been Krispy-Kreme flavoured. Isn’t there one already?! 86. If you look closely on One Direction’s ‘One Thing’ video, Liam’s left eyebrow has a slit shaved into it. Harry did it while Liam was sleeping! Pesky scamp. 87. Liam was a closet fan of S Club 7! 88. Liam had a small birthmark on his neck. 89. If Liam could only eat one thing for the rest of his life it would be chocolate “because it’s chocolaty.” 90. Liam used to get into trouble at school and often spent time in the headmistress’s office. “I used to have water fights in the toilets and climb on the roof to get footballs back,” he told The Sun. 91. When he first started boxing, Liam picked up a number of nasty injuries including a perforated eardrum and a broken nose. “I was always coming home with a bruised, puffy face,” he says. 92. Liam once asked a called Emily out 22 times and she kept turning him down. He added to the Sun: “Finally I sang to her and she said she’d go out with me, but she dumped me the next day.” We’re pretty sure Emily will be regretting her move! Doh! 93. Liam owned a lollipop with Zayn’s name on it. Well, when we say ‘owned we mean he stole it off Zayn! 94. Liam said he emotional when singing 1D track ‘Moments’. The pop-ballad was penned by Ed Sheeran and appears on the deluxe version of ‘Up All Night’. 95. When he was younger Liam used to practise kissing on the back of his hand. 96. Asked what was the best thing about taking part in The X Factor, Liam said it was “meeting the four best people ever.” Awwwwww! 97. If Liam wasn’t a multi-million selling pop star, he says he’d like to be a fireman or gym teacher. 98. Liam always wanted a brother when he was younger. He says that now with One Direction “it’s like having four of them!” 99. Despite being a pop superstar, Liam said he still did his own washing and ironing. He joked: “You don’t see Take That doing that do you?!” 100. Just like Niall and Zayn, Liam had size 8 feet. 101. The three things Liam coudn't live without were hair wax, Clearasil and Niall! 102. He was single. (Later had girlfriends) 103. Liam took to Twitter to defend Sophia against the people, who where against their relationship, and even tweeted that "if you ain't got something nice to say then don't say it" (re-worded). He tweeted "#done" on 21st August 2013, but started to tweeted again on 25th August. |
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