Payne entered X Factor in 2008 as a solo artist and reached the judges’ house stage of the ITV singing competition. He returned two years later and was put in a boy band, One Direction ...

Keep scrolling to revisit One Direction's full history with Cowell: When Payne was 14, he auditioned for The X Factor and ...

Nicole Scherzinger, the former X Factor judge who formed One Direction, is sharing a tribute to Liam Payne after his fatal fall from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires. Nicole Scherzinger ...