Cheryl and One Direction members mourn Liam Payne at his funeral
A horse-drawn carriage carrying the coffin of Liam Payne arrives for the funeral service of One Direction singer. Picture: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire
Cheryl Tweedy and members of One Direction were among the friends and family to pay their final respects to Liam Payne at his funeral.
Singers Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson reunited alongside other mourners at the private funeral in Buckinghamshire to remember Payne following his death aged 31 in Argentina last month.
Girls Aloud star Tweedy, who was in a relationship with Payne between 2016 and 2018, was seen leaving the service at St Mary’s Church in Amersham wearing a black coat and black sunglasses. She shares a son, Bear, with Payne.
Music mogul Simon Cowell was seen embracing Payne’s father Geoff and mother Karen as they left the church.
A horse-drawn carriage carried the dark blue coffin with silver handles and topped with white roses to the service.
On top of the carriage, there was a red floral tribute which said “son” and a blue tribute which said “daddy”.
Following the service, his coffin was carried outside and placed inside a black Jaguar hearse.
Pop star Styles, dressed in all black, arrived at the service in a BMW alongside TV star James Corden, while X Factor judge Cowell arrived with his fiancee, Lauren Silverman.
Horan attended alongside his girlfriend Amelia Woolley, while Malik arrived to the church shortly after Tomlinson.
Other guests attending include Payne’s girlfriend, US influencer Kate Cassidy, who arrived alongside Damian Hurley, the son of model Elizabeth Hurley.
Cheryl's Girls Aloud bandmates Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh were dropped off in front of the entrance of the church wearing long black coats and sunglasses.
BBC Radio 2 host Scott Mills — who spent a lot of time with One Direction in the early days of their career — former professional footballer Robbie Keane and broadcaster Adrian Chiles were also amongst the mourners gathering to pay their last respects to Payne.
Dozens of locals and fans have also gathered outside the church to pay their final respects.
The entrance of the church which is hosting the service has been decorated with candle lanterns and white roses that have been arranged in surrounding shrubbery.
Following Payne’s death fans around the world held vigils in his memory, including a shrine to the late star in his hometown of Wolverhampton.
He died of multiple traumas and “internal and external haemorrhage”, a post-mortem examination report said.
Payne rose to fame alongside Styles, Tomlinson, Malik and Horan when Simon Cowell put them together to form One Direction on ITV talent show The X Factor in 2010.
He had first auditioned in 2008 when he was 14, singing Frank Sinatra’s Fly Me To The Moon, with judge Cowell telling him to return to the talent show two years later.
In 2010 he impressed the judges with Michael Buble’s version of Cry Me A River before being put with four other solo hopefuls at the boot camp stage of the competition – the group which later became One Direction.
Payne went on to launch a successful solo career, releasing his debut solo album LP1 in December 2019, which included the songs Polaroid and Strip That Down featuring Quavo.
One of his most well-known songs, For You, was a collaboration between him and singer Rita Ora for the film Fifty Shades Freed.
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