Liam Payne’s former bandmates, household and mates gathered in England on Wednesday for the late singer’s funeral, simply over a month after he died in a fall in Buenos Aires.
One Direction alumni Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan attended the personal service at St. Mary’s Church in Amersham, a small city northwest of London. “X Factor” judges Simon Cowell and singer Cheryl Cole, Payne’s ex-girlfriend with whom he had a son, have been additionally current, as was girlfriend Kate Cassidy, who was in Argentina with Payne earlier than she died.
A horse-drawn carriage carrying Liam Payne’s coffin arrives for the singer’s funeral service at St Mary’s Church in Amersham, England, on Wednesday.
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The Twelfth-century stone brick church was embellished with white roses and candles. The “Strip That Down” singer’s darkish blue casket arrived on the church in a white horse-drawn hearse carrying floral preparations bearing the phrases “son” and “dad.” BBC he stated. Payne, who was 31 when he died, lived within the close by village of Chalfont St. Giles.
The late singer’s mom wept and his father Geoff Payne – who flew to Argentina to gather the singer’s physique – stood stoically as they watched the flower-covered coffin enter the church, CNN reported.
Four pallbearers carried the casket out of the church after the funeral and have been adopted by Payne’s dad and mom and Cole. Cole’s Girls Aloud bandmates Kimberley Walsh and Nicola Roberts additionally attended the ceremony, together with former discuss present host James Corden, soccer star Robbie Keane and different British TV personalities.
Zayn Malik leaves the church following the funeral service for One Direction singer Liam Payne in Amersham, England, on Wednesday.
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Although some followers and locals quietly lined the road through the service, One Direction’s legion of followers weren’t concentrated within the small city. THE Associated press reported that the situation of the funeral was not made public prematurely to forestall a big crowd from gathering. Likewise, members of the huge 1D group on Reddit reminded members that “memorials are for followers, funerals are for household” and discouraged them from getting near pop stars and mourners.
Styles, Tomlinson, Horan and Malik publicly paid tribute to their “brother” in social media posts within the days instantly following his dying.
Payne died on October 16 after falling from a balcony on the Hotel CasaSur Palermo in Buenos Aires. Argentine authorities decided that the singer died from a number of traumas and inner and exterior bleeding brought on by the autumn. “He didn’t undertake a reflexive posture to guard himself and… could have fallen right into a state of semi- or whole unconsciousness,” officers stated. The pop star, who had been in South America for a Horan live performance, had traces of alcohol, cocaine and antidepressants in her system when she died.
In a preliminary post-mortem shared the day after the singer’s dying, Argentine officers stated authorities discovered substances within the singer’s lodge room that gave the impression to be medication in addition to proof of alcohol and narcotic use.
Niall Horan, proper, walks with a good friend after the funeral of One Direction singer Liam Payne.
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Three suspects are accused of alleged involvement within the pop star’s sudden disappearance. One is an individual near Payne who typically visited him on the lodge, one other is a lodge worker who allegedly equipped Payne with cocaine throughout his keep and the third is a suspected narcotics provider who had already been accused of dealing medication in separate incidents. The expenses embody abandonment of an individual leading to dying, and provide and facilitation of narcotics.
The former “X Factor” member, who like his former bandmates pursued a solo music profession following One Direction’s breakup in 2015, was anticipated to return to tv as a star mentor for the Netflix competitors sequence Building the Band” along with the “X Factor” choose. Nicole Scherzinger, Destiny’s Child alum Kelly Rowland and host AJ McLean of the Backstreet Boys. Netflix has not but introduced how or if the present will proceed after Payne’s dying.
Payne’s collaborator, music producer Sam Pounds, additionally rejected the discharge of the singer’s posthumous single “Do No Wrong” amid fan outcry.
Times writers Alexandra Del Rosario and Angie Orellana Hernandez contributed to this report.
