‘We all let you down’, says Sharon Osborne in tribute

Liam Payne was failed by the music trade, Sharon Osbourne has stated in an emotional tribute to the previous One Path star.

Writing on Instagram, Osbourne stated Payne was “only a child” when he “entered one of many hardest industries on the earth”.

“All of us allow you to down,” added the TV persona and former X Issue decide, alongside a black-and-white {photograph} of Payne.

Osbourne is the most recent so as to add her voice to the tributes which have poured in from the world over after the 31-year-old singer fell to his demise in Buenos Aires on Wednesday night time.

“Liam, my coronary heart aches. All of us allow you to down. The place was this trade while you wanted them?” Osbourne wrote.

“You have been only a child while you entered one of many hardest industries on the earth. Who was in your nook? Relaxation in peace my pal,” she stated.

Payne rose to fame as a youngster, first showing on the X Issue on the age of 14 in 2008.

He returned to the present two years later, when decide Simon Cowell created One Path by matching Payne with Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Harry Kinds.

Whereas the group got here third within the X Issue that yr, they went on to turn out to be one of the crucial profitable boy bands of all time, promoting some 70 million data since their formation in 2010. The band went on a “hiatus” in 2016.

Reflecting on his meteoric rise in a 2019 BBC interview, Payne stated he had been “very confused about fame when all of it occurred”.

In the identical interview, he spoke about his “erratic behaviour” on the time the band broke up. “I used to be partying too arduous,” he stated.

After the astronomical success of One Path, Payne discovered his solo profession tougher to keep up.

In 2023, the singer was compelled to cancel his solo tour after being admitted to hospital with a “severe kidney an infection”.

Osbourne is just not the one particular person to take purpose on the music trade within the wake of Payne’s demise.

Boyzone’s Mikey Graham urged report firms to take significantly their “obligation of take care of the vulnerability of their younger expertise”.

He wrote on X: “Fame may be very damaging particularly in at this time’s world. Numerous cash. No one to assist.”

And Katie Waissel, who appeared on the X Consider 2010 alongside One Path, has lengthy campaigned for higher assist for many who seem on TV.

She spoke to the BBC final yr concerning the “obscene quantity of stress” she felt underneath as a contestant on the present.