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Directioners are saying goodbye to Liam Payne<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The former One Direction<\/strong><\/a> bandmate died after falling from a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to Good Morning America<\/a><\/em> and CNN<\/a>, citing police. He was 31.\u00a0<\/p>\n Two hours before news broke, Payne shared a photo on Snapchat of himself with girlfriend Kate Cassidy <\/strong>in swim gear as they smiled for a mirror selfie.<\/p>\n Payne rose to fame in\u00a02010 when he was grouped with Harry Styles<\/strong><\/a>, Niall Horan<\/strong><\/a>, Louis Tomlinson<\/a> <\/strong>and Zayn Malik <\/strong><\/a>to form One Direction on\u00a0The X Factor<\/em>. While the band finished third place, they went on to see massive success starting with their debut single “What Makes You Beautiful” as part of their debut album Up All Night<\/em> in 2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n However, Payne was candid about the difficulties of becoming a celebrity so young in life.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Fame made me a little bit nuts and distracted me a lot from the person I was,” he told #Legend<\/em>\u00a0magazine<\/a> in 2018. “And it pissed me off in the end, because it was like, ‘You could have been this guy, but you chose to do this.’ Nobody really knew anything about me. I put on a front that wasn’t really me.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n