A private funeral was held for Liam Payne on Wednesday (November 20) at St Mary’s Church in Amersham, England. All of Payne’s former One Direction bandmates were in attendance, as Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, and Louis Tomlinson arrived separately to the service dressed all in black. Liam’s parents, Karen and Geoff Payne, were in attendance, as were Kate Cassidy, Payne’s girlfriend at the time of his death, and Cheryl Cole, the mother of his son Bear. Also attending the funeral was X Factor judge Simon Cowell, whose reality singing competition helped launch Payne’s career and brought One Direction together, and TV personality James Corden. Payne’s coffin arrived at the church in a white horse-drawn carriage, adorned in flowers that spelled out the words “son” and “daddy.” Payne died on October 16 at the age of 31 after falling from his hotel room’s third-floor balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Variety)
