Liam Payne’s Final TV Appearance Revealed In Emotional Trailer

Liam Payne was returning to his musical roots in what would turn into his remaining tv look earlier than his premature loss of life in October 2024.

On Tuesday, Netflix dropped the trailer for its upcoming music competitors collection “Constructing the Band,” that includes the late singer as a visitor choose alongside Kelly Rowland and Nicole Scherzinger.

The collection, set to premiere July 9, marks Liam Payne’s final filmed venture and highlights his ardour for mentoring younger expertise, a task that felt particularly becoming given his historical past as a founding member of One Direction.

Showing wholesome and upbeat within the trailer, Payne is seen providing recommendation and sincere suggestions to contestants who’re tasked with forming bands based mostly solely on vocal chemistry, with out ever seeing each other.

“I have to really feel that connection between you guys,” he says in a single clip, urging aspiring artists to dig deeper.

“To have these bands put collectively isn’t regular,” Payne provides, reflecting on his personal expertise. “We [One Direction] had been put collectively that approach.”

“Constructing the Band,” hosted by Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean, challenges 50 singers to create six totally different bands from behind soundproof cubicles, relying solely on what they hear, not what they see.

It’s a full-circle second for Payne, who rose to stardom after being positioned in One Course in the course of the 2010 season of “The X Issue.” Scherzinger, then a visitor choose, performed a vital position in forming the beloved boy band alongside Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh.

Tragically, Payne died on October 16, 2024, after falling from a third-story balcony on the CasaSur Palermo Lodge in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was 31.

Based on ABC News, a partial post-mortem revealed a number of substances in his system on the time of his loss of life, together with cocaine, crack, benzodiazepine, and “pink cocaine,” a cocktail of methamphetamine, ketamine, and MDMA.

Authorities additionally discovered an improvised aluminum pipe in his lodge room, reportedly used to ingest the medicine. A preliminary report concluded that Payne suffered inside and exterior trauma, together with a cranial fracture that induced his instant loss of life.

Native authorities advised TMZ they consider he was underneath the affect of a drug referred to as “cristal,” recognized for inflicting excessive emotional highs and lows, and probably aggressive conduct.

Within the weeks main as much as his tragic loss of life, Payne was reportedly grappling with a severe drug dependancy that these near him feared was spiraling uncontrolled.

Based on trade sources cited by Page Six, the previous One Course star had just lately been dropped by his document label, Common Music, and shortly afterward, by his London-based publicist. “Liam was battling a really important drug dependancy and his remedy, as those that knew him will attest, was not working,” one insider stated.

Whereas Payne had spent 100 days in a Louisiana rehab facility in 2023, his return to the highlight was allegedly being pushed too rapidly by a younger and impressive workforce desirous to get him again on the street.