X Factor UK Sets Record Straight With Video After Liam Payne Claimed One Direction Was Built Around Him!
26.07.2022 - 05:21
/ perezhilton.com
Just in case Liam Payne had any question about who One Direction was formed around and how the whole thing happened, X Factor UK is making things very, very clear!
In fact, a newly-released YouTube video published over the weekend that pretty much laid bare all of Liam’s claims about the formation of the boy band!
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As Perezcious readers will recall, the former 1D member went on Logan Paul‘s podcast early last month to talk about his boy band history and how (he thought) the whole thing came together. At the time, Liam explained that he had previously auditioned for Simon Cowell when he was just 14 years old, back in 2008. Cowell told him he wasn’t ready at the time, and to go back to school for a little while. When Liam came back two years later, Simon apparently realized it had all come together.
Liam recalled on the Impaulsive podcast:
Those comments went viral immediately after they aired, and Liam got roasted online. Even Lizzo weighed in, calling Payne a “poor boy” who was “lied to” about being 1D’s frontman! (Um, hello Harry Styles?!?!)
Well, this past weekend, X Factor UK decided to step in. The show shared four minutes of never-before seen footage of the band being formed over on YouTube on Saturday in honor of the 12-year anniversary of the group’s inception.
In the clip, the judges — Cowell, Nicole Scherzinger, and Louis Walsh — can be seen sifting through headshots before Nicole pushes a pic of Niall Horan to the top of the table. Styles’ photo comes up next, with Nicole adding a quick comment:
Louis Tomlinson‘s pic then pops up and is chosen, with Walsh sizing up the trio this time:
Seems simple! One, two, three, and they’re rolling!
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