Liam Payne’s last Instagram post before his shocking death included a photo with his One Direction bandmates.
The 31-year-old singer died on Wednesday after falling from his room at the Casa Sur Palmero Hotel in Buenos Aires, triggering a flood of tributes from around the world.
In what became his final Instagram post, on May 29, Liam shared a snapshot from 2013 with his bandmates while paying tribute to American documentary filmmaker and producer Morgan Spurlock.
The image showed the group (Liam, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik) posing with Morgan at the premiere of their concert documentary One Direction: This Is Us.
The post was captioned: “Rest in peace Morgan Spurlock, it was a pleasure working with you.”
Liam Payne’s last Instagram post before his shocking death included a photo with his One Direction bandmates.
The singer died on Wednesday after his room fell at the Casa Sur Palmero Hotel in Buenos Aires, unleashing a sea of tributes around the world.
The comments on the post have now been flooded with tributes to Liam following his death.
Several witnesses said Liam had fallen from his room at the Casa Sur Palmero Hotel shortly after 5pm (ART) on Wednesday night.
Fans have gathered outside the hotel, where emergency services are present, and a red tent has been erected.
Local police have since launched an investigation into the sudden death of the 31-year-old man, as tributes flood in after the tragedy.
A police statement from local police said they arrived at the hotel after being “reported of an aggressive man who may have been under the influence of drugs and alcohol.”
Spokesman for the city’s ambulance service provider, Alberto Crescenti, said Payne had fallen about 40 meters and suffered “serious injuries that were incompatible with life.”
He said: ‘The alarm was raised at 5:04 pm local time saying that a person was lying in an internal courtyard of Casa Sur.
‘At 5:11 pm an ambulance arrived and the man was certified dead.
In what became his final Instagram post, on May 29, Liam shared a snap from 2013 with his bandmates while paying tribute to American documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock.
‘Later we discovered that he had been a famous singer. Unfortunately, the injuries he had suffered as a result of the fall proved fatal. There was no possibility of resuscitating him.’
The star’s latest Snapchat post showed him happily posing with partner Kate Cassidy as they looked in the mirror, a photo that was originally taken last August.
Other posts from the final moments of the star’s life showed him enjoying lunch in his hotel room, where he revealed that the couple had “woken up at 1pm every day” and had decided on Forest Gump as their costume. Halloween.
Liam began his quest for stardom when he initially auditioned for the X Factor in 2008.
At just 14, Liam impressed the judges with his own version of Frank Sinatra’s Fly Me To The Moon, but was later eliminated from the show.
However, Payne gave his singing career another shot by auditioning for the competition again in 2010, where he quickly rose to fame as part of One Direction.
He and his former bandmates Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson were brought together by Simon Cowell and former judge Nicole Scherzinger, who saw their potential as a group.
After a few weeks of getting to know each other and rehearsing non-stop, the group impressed Simon at their audition for Judge’s Houses and moved on to the live shows.
Pop Svengali later admitted to Rolling Stone that it took him “about a millionth of a second” to spot the group’s global potential.
Fan reaction was also instant, and 1D’s hysteria soon overshadowed the show. Despite the adoration, the band eventually finished third on the X Factor, but soon after Cowell sealed their fate by signing all five to a £2 million Syco contract.
Several witnesses said Liam had fallen from his room at the Hotel Casa Sur Palmero shortly after 5 pm (ART) on Wednesday night.
Eager to capitalize on the boys’ already devoted fan base, Cowell moved quickly with recording the band’s debut album beginning in January 2011.
In September of that year, One Direction’s first single was released, with What Makes You Beautiful reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart, after becoming Sony Music Entertainment’s most pre-ordered single in history.
Their debut album, Up All Night, was also a bestseller, becoming the best-selling debut album in the UK in 2011, and the record led to their first tour which began in the UK in December.
After Malik announced his departure from the band in 2015, the band members went their separate ways.
During their time as a group, One Direction won five Brit Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, racked up more than three billion YouTube views, and sold 50 million records worldwide.
After releasing five albums with one of the biggest boy bands of all time, Liam released his first solo album titled LP1 in 2019.
His single Strip That Down co-written with Ed Sheeran rose to number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart that same year.
