As celebrities, friends and fans share their heartfelt tributes following the sudden and tragic loss of One Direction's Liam Payne, members of the boy band's world have began to break their silence. Harry Styles,

Local police said Payne was declared dead on the spot after falling from the third floor of the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires.

Following the 31-year-old’s death on Wednesday, his friends and former collaborators have shared their shock and grief.

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Many One Direction fans are struggling to understand the death of the former group’s member, Liam Payne. The 31-year-old singer died Wednesday after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires,

Liam Payne first registered on the pop radar as a fresh-faced 14-year-old, trying out for The X Factor in 2008. "I should really be concentrating on my [school] work but I just think about singing too much,

Back in 2008, the world was introduced to a budding young singer named Liam Payne when he auditioned for the fifth season of the British TV series The X Factor. Now 16 years later, the world is mourning his death.

In 2008, Liam had no idea his life would change forever after his X Factor audition. The UK native was just 14 years old when he first stepped before the judges. There, he met Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh,