Xtra Factor host addresses 'pressure' on Liam Payne ahead of his tragic death

BBC Breakfast big Konnie Huq joined the presenters connected the reddish sofa to retrieve her clip with One Direction prima Liam Payne, who tragically died connected a edifice balcony successful Argentina

In a shocking crook of events reported past nighttime (Wednesday October 17), Liam Payne, the erstwhile One Direction star, is said to person died astatine the property of 31 pursuing a autumn from his edifice balcony successful Buenos Aires, Argentina. The constabulary are yet to merchandise much accusation connected the incident.

Konnie Huq, who worked with Liam Payne during his aboriginal days successful the euphony manufacture backmost successful 2010 connected the Xtra Factor, paid her respects connected BBC Breakfast and shared her memories of him.

BBC Breakfast big Naga Munchetty introduced the segment, saying: "Konnie bully morning, you cognize evidently fans are waking up to this news, we heard astir 10:30pm yesterday evening and there's a batch to digest. I cognize you would person been successful interaction with him erstwhile helium was connected the X Factor?"

Konnie reminisced astir a memorable clip connected the amusement and aboriginal spoke of Liam arsenic 1 of the "mature" members of One Direction, recalling the play erstwhile helium and Justin Bieber some featured connected the programme sporting akin hairstyles.

Konnie reflected connected however she ever believed that the set which besides included Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, and Louis Tomlinson was destined for stardom, contempt finishing 3rd connected Simon Cowell's endowment competition, reports the Express.

She candidly disclosed to the BBC presenters however being successful the spotlight had enactment "a batch of pressure" connected "young people". Reflecting connected a beingness successful the nationalist eye, she noted: "If you deliberation that helium started his travel erstwhile helium was 14 and helium was lone 31 and truly the bulk of his beingness had been done this lens, it's a batch of pressure."

The prima past remarked to hosts Ben Thompson and Naga that "especially with societal media and modern surviving it benignant of heightens that pressure."

Ben interjected asking: "And Konnie evidently determination volition beryllium questions raised astir the work of attraction successful the euphony manufacture erstwhile it takes young people, arsenic you said conscionable 14, they person that meteoric emergence to fame.

"We were proceeding earlier however helium wasn't allowed to permission his edifice country due to the fact that of fans outside, trying to get a look oregon a interaction adjacent of these radical that they were immense fans of. Its truly hard isn't it and I wonderment if the euphony manufacture volition look this greeting astatine however it looks aft its young stars? "

Although Konnie didn't speculate connected the euphony industry's adjacent moves aft Liam's tragic passing, she did criticise "modern living" for exacerbating the hardships of fame successful today's world, indicating that erstwhile caught up successful personage status, flight becomes virtually impossible.

She explained the precocious terms of fame, saying: "It's truthful pugnacious due to the fact that nary substance what you bash astatine that level you truly cannot opt retired astatine all, there's nary resemblance of surviving a comparatively mean manner and the lone mode to bash that is benignant of to opt out."

She went connected to bespeak connected the pressures of modern personage culture: "But this planetary satellite that we unrecorded successful now, it's tougher and tougher. Young celebrated stars having this stone n rotation manner and dying young, goes backmost to, I don't know, possibly adjacent James Dean but similar I accidental with things similar societal media and the prevalence of the accelerated user civilization that we unrecorded in, I deliberation the occupation lone exacerbates."

BBC Breakfast airs connected BBC One, everyday, from 6am.