Just before Liam Payne’s unexpected death, The X Factor was looking back at how One Direction got its start. The group finished third in season 7 of the UK hit music competition show in 2010, and with ...

One Direction and Simon Cowell have a whole lot of history. The founding members of the boy band — Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson — initially auditioned for The ...

Nicole Scherzinger always saw a star in Liam Payne. After the One Direction alum fell from the balcony of his Argentina hotel room Oct. 16, the former X Factor judge reflected on the 31-year-old’s ...

The band was put together on July 23, 2010 during season 7 of 'X Factor U.K.' and immediately took over the world Alexandra Schonfeld is a staff editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

“I was so young, it didn’t really matter but he was always very, very lovely,” the singer told podcast host Louis Theroux Latoya Gayle joined PEOPLE as an Associate Editor in 2024. Her work has ...