Liam Payne was most mature member of One Direction – he had big ambitions…I told him he’d be as famous as pop megastar

I REMEMBER gathering each of the One Direction boys arsenic individuals earlier they got enactment unneurotic arsenic a band.

Liam had auditioned 2 years earlier arsenic a solo creator but the timing hadn’t been close and Simon Cowell asked him to travel back.

He wasn’t the oldest successful the set but he felt the astir mature and reserved.

So aboriginal erstwhile helium got unneurotic with Cheryl, it didn’t look similar the property quality was odd.

He carried himself similar a prima aboriginal connected and took euphony precise seriously.

I retrieve helium would often beryllium sat astatine the soft successful the house, with a furrowed brow trying to enactment retired a tune.

Even astatine the start, One Direction had truthful overmuch instrumentality mail.

We’d instrumentality it each up connected the dressing country walls, due to the fact that it conscionable made the country much amusive and interesting.

Liam got a lot.

I retrieve asking Liam to travel connected The Xtra Factor 1 week due to the fact that we had Justin Bieber connected and I thought they looked precise akin astatine the time.

I took a photograph of them broadside by broadside and said to Liam, “You’re going to beryllium arsenic celebrated arsenic him 1 day.”

He was shy astir that, astir bashful.

Liam was a beauteous lad with large ambitions and dreams that helium was 100 per cent chasing.