Remembering Liam Payne after his funeral
The Liam Payne funeral news makes me so sad. One Direction reunited to say farewell, his parents overlooking their son's coffin… Liam's bowling obsession being paid tribute to!
On second thought however, Damian Hurley might have just been an attention seeker, being pictured with Kate. He is the nepo baby of Elizabeth Hurley. What exactly was his relationship with Liam?
Observing the funeral, there are many who absolutely should be there - his family, girlfriend and ex partners, One Direction band mates, Simon Cowell (🤷🏻♀️), and their partners, but some people it does feel as if are they there for an event? Were they even there for Liam recently? A lot of people just didn't click from what I had been seeing. Obviously ex fiancee Maya Henry and ex manager/friend Roger Nores are not there, but they were much closer to Liam than Damian Hurley ever was!
I am trying to piece together where things went wrong for Liam, outside of the infamous Logan Paul podcast in May/June 2022, because I certainly missed all of the commotion. However these would be in later posts because it's inappropriate for a post about Liam's funeral.
Two and a half years ago, Tom Parker from a group called The Wanted passed at age 33 from illness and Liam attended his funeral. It is really sad that in that span of time, the attendee is now the deceased..
It looks like a week before he and Kate left for Argentina, he had gone to a local bowling alley called Greenacres Bowl in Florida, where he had chatted to a fan, Alexandria Isola, about being at this funeral.
My (Alexandria's) father joked that [Alexandria Isola] liked The Wanted better than One Direction and he (Liam Payne) [was] like, ‘You know, with The Wanted, I just went to [Tom’s] funeral and he was a really nice guy,’” Isola recalled. “You can tell it really touched him.”
Isola told Us that Payne “was glad” that he was able to attend Parker’s celebration of life. (The Wanted singer died in March 2022 at the age of 33 after being diagnosed with a brain tumor.)
Liam and Kate Cassidy had relocated to Wellington, Florida in May 2024, and they had just moved in to a new house in mid-Sep.
@kateecass idk how its already messy but 😀 #vlog #housetour #movein #homedecor #homeinspo
♬ Au Revoir - Sweet After Tears
Also, this exists..
If I died would you come to ma funeral...?
— Liam (@LiamPayne) December 31, 2010
On New Year's Day in 2011? What is that Liam!! Apparently, that is a lyric from JLS (another X Factor group) called Beat Again, but still..