Netflix press ahead with Liam Payne’s boyband show WITHOUT grieving family’s blessing

NETFLIX is pressing up with airing Liam Payne’s TV endowment show, Building the Band, without his grieving family’s last blessing.

The erstwhile One Direction star’s loved ones were successful talks with the streaming elephantine to guarantee they were blessed earlier the programme was scheduled.

But yesterday Netflix confirmed it would merchandise the boyband hunt amusement this twelvemonth — contempt not yet having their motion off.

An insider said: “They spoke with Liam’s family arsenic they didn’t privation to advancement the task without taking their feelings into consideration.

“The household got the consciousness that this was a solemnisation of Liam, an representation of positivity.

“He was doing what helium did champion arsenic a existent boyband star.

“But they hadn’t fixed it a last stamp of support and arsenic acold arsenic they were acrophobic were inactive discussing what the amusement would look like.

“So they were amazed by the announcement.”

Liam, who died successful October successful a autumn from a edifice balcony successful Buenos Aires, was a impermanent justice connected Building the Band with Nicole Scherzinger and Kelly Rowland.

It is hosted by Backstreet Boys vocalist AJ Maclean and, says Netflix, has “one large goal: to find the adjacent large euphony band”.

Liam finished filming conscionable months earlier his decease astatine 31, leaving the multi-million-pound task successful limbo.

We exclusively revealed successful December that Netflix had been successful talks with Liam’s family.

Netflix world amusement brag Jeff Gaspin confirmed this week successful LA that they had been contacted “to sermon what relation that volition play”.

He added: “There is thing to denote yet.”

But confusion arose erstwhile Netflix’s UK helping said the amusement would aerial this year. Netflix declined to comment.