SAYING GOODBYE

Somber Harry Styles and One Direction Bandmates Gather for Liam Payne’s Funeral

It may be the first time they’ve all been together since the band broke up.

All four surviving members of the former boyband One Direction gathered in Wolverhampton on Wednesday for the funeral of their bandmate Liam Payne, who died in Argentina last month after falling from his hotel balcony. Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, and Louis Tomlinson were all in attendance, reportedly the first time all of them were in the same place since the band’s final concert in 2015. After Payne’s death, the four singers issued a joint statement saying they were “completely devastated” by “the loss of our brother, who we loved dearly.” They did not attend as a group but arrived separately, Styles with comedian James Corden, Horan with his girlfriend, Amelia Woolley, and Malik and Tomlinson apparently alone. Other celebrities in attendance included Simon Cowell, the music producer who put One Direction together.