Watch Liam Payne’s very first audition on X Factor ahead of boyband stardom with One Direction

LIAM Payne fans person flocked online to ticker his precise archetypal X Factor audition pursuing reports that helium has died.

The singer, 31, was successful Buenos Aires for pal Niall Horan's circuit erstwhile helium tragically plunged from the 3rd level this afternoon, TMZ reports.

Liam was conscionable 14 erstwhile helium archetypal tried his luck connected the ITV singing amusement successful 2008.

It was besides his archetypal brushwood with Cheryl Cole, who helium went connected to invited lad Bear with galore years later.

As this unearthed clip shows, baby-faced Liam tells the cameras: "When I'm astatine school, successful general, I deliberation astir singing each the time.

"I should truly beryllium concentrating connected my schoolhouse enactment but I conscionable deliberation astir singing excessively much."

He is past shown introducing himself to judges Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and Cheryl.

"A batch of radical accidental I'm a bully vocalist and I've got The X Factor but I don't truly cognize what The X Factor is and I judge you guys do."

Liam wowed the 3 judges with a rendition of Fly Me To The Moon, by jazz crooner Frank Sinatra.

Once helium had performed, euphony mogul Simon told him: "I'm conscionable missing a spot of grit, a spot of emotion and really a spot of fun, funnily enough."