Liam Payne’s former bandmates, members of the family and pals gathered Wednesday in England for the late singer’s funeral, simply over a month after he died from a fall in Buenos Aires.
One Route alumni Harry Kinds, 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-fiancée with whom he shared a younger son, have been additionally in attendance, as was girlfriend Kate Cassidy, who was in Argentina with Payne earlier than he died.
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 spelling the phrases “son” and “daddy,” the BBC 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 casket go into the church, CNN reported.
4 pallbearers carried the coffin from the church after the funeral and so they have been adopted by Payne’s dad and mom and Cole. Cole’s fellow Women Aloud bandmates Kimberley Walsh and Nicola Roberts additionally attended the service, together with former speak present host James Corden, soccer star Robbie Keane and different British TV personalities.
Though some followers and locals quietly lined the road in the course of the service, One Route’s legion of followers didn’t converge on the small city. The Related Press reported that the funeral location was not made public upfront to forestall a big crowd from gathering. Likewise, members of the large 1D group on Reddit reminded members that “memorials are for fans, funerals are for family” and discouraged them from approaching the pop stars and mourners.
Kinds, Tomlinson, Horan and Malik every publicly paid tribute to their “brother” in social media posts within the days instantly following his loss of life.
Payne died Oct. 16 after falling from a balcony on the CasaSur Palermo Resort in Buenos Aires. Argentine officers decided that the singer died from a number of traumas and inner and exterior bleeding brought on by the autumn. He “did not adopt a reflexive posture to protect himself and … he may have fallen in a state of semi- or total unconsciousness,” officers stated. The pop star, who had been in South America for a Horan live performance, had traces of alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his system when he died.
In a preliminary post-mortem shared a day after the singer’s loss of life, Argentine officers stated authorities discovered substances within the singer’s lodge room that seemed to be medication along with proof of consumption of alcohol and narcotics.
Three suspects are dealing with costs for his or her alleged involvement within the pop star’s sudden demise. One is an individual near Payne who continuously visited him on the lodge, one other is a lodge worker who allegedly offered 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 costs embrace abandonment of an individual adopted by loss of life, and provide and facilitation of narcotics.
The “X Factor” alum, who like his former bandmates pursued a solo musical profession after One Route disbanded in 2015, was set to return to tv as a star mentor for the Netflix competitors sequence “Building the Band” alongside “X Factor” decide Nicole Scherzinger, Future’s Youngster alum Kelly Rowland and host AJ McLean of the Backstreet Boys. Netflix has not but introduced how or if the present will proceed within the wake of Payne’s loss of life.
Payne’s collaborator, music producer Sam Kilos, additionally walked again the discharge of the singer’s posthumous single “Do No Wrong” amid fan outcry.