‘Love you bro’ – Zayn Malik’s tribute to Payne at gig

Zayn Malik has paid tribute to his former One Path bandmate Liam Payne at his present in Leeds on Saturday evening, with an indication which learn: “Love you bro”.

The message, which has been extensively shared on social media, additionally had Payne’s identify and the yr he was born and died.

Malik’s tour was meant to start in Edinburgh earlier this week. Nevertheless, he rescheduled two of his exhibits within the metropolis, citing “unexpected circumstances”.

The singer additionally beforehand postponed his US tour, after what he known as the “heartbreaking loss” of Payne.

Payne died, aged 31, after falling from the third ground of resort balcony in Argentina final month.

Household, associates and former bandmates remembered him at his funeral in Amersham in Buckinghamshire on Wednesday.

Harry Types, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Malik have been among the many mourners, alongside Payne’s girlfriend Kate Cassidy and his former associate Cheryl, with whom he shares a son.

On the O2 Academy Leeds, Malik performed a string of his hits together with Pillowtalk and My Lady.

Many had anticipated he may pay tribute to Payne through the present. Ultimately, he did so proper on the finish, with a message that was accompanied by a pink coronary heart.

It got here after Malik introduced final week that he was rescheduling two of his Edinburgh exhibits.

In an Instagram story, he stated that the present initially scheduled for 20 November on the O2 Academy Edinburgh venue had been rescheduled for 8 December.

An additional date on 21 November on the identical venue has been moved to 9 December.

“All tickets for the unique present dates will probably be honoured on the rescheduled dates,” the submit added.

In October, he made the choice to postpone his US exhibits, telling followers: “Given the heartbreaking loss skilled this week, I’ve made the choice to postpone the US leg of the Stairway to the Sky Tour.”

The US a part of Malik’s tour was as a consequence of begin in San Francisco, earlier than visiting Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Washington DC and New York.

He has advised followers on X the dates can be rescheduled for January and the tickets will stay legitimate for the brand new dates.

“Love you all and thanks in your understanding,” he added.

Payne and Malik rose to international fame as a part of the boyband One Path – created on The X Issue TV present in 2010 – and sang along with bandmates Harry Types, Louis Tomlinson, and Niall Horan.

Malik left the group in 2015 to embark on a solo singing profession, and the band later cut up in 2016.

After Payne’s dying, his One Path bandmates posted a sequence of poignant and heartfelt tributes to their “brother”, who they remembered as “probably the most important half” of the group.

“I cherished and revered you dearly. I’ll cherish all of the recollections I’ve with you in my coronary heart eternally, there isn’t any phrases that justify or clarify how I really feel proper now aside from past devastated,” Malik wrote.

“I hope that wherever you’re proper now you’re good and are at peace and you understand how cherished you’re.”