Liam Payne‘s final Instagram post before his shock death featured a snap with his One Direction bandmates.
The singer, 31, died on Wednesday after falling from his room at the Casa Sur Palmero Hotel in Buenos Aires, sparking a sea of tributes from around the world.
In what became his last Instagram post, on May 29, Liam had shared a 2013 snap with his bandmates while paying tribute to American documentary filmmaker and producer Morgan Spurlock.
The image showed the group – Liam, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik – posing with Morgan at the premiere of their concert documentary One Direction: This Is Us.
The post was captioned: ‘Rest in peace Morgan Spurlock it was a pleasure working with you.’
Liam Payne ‘s final Instagram post before his shock death featured a snap with his One Direction bandmates
The singer died on Wednesday after falling his room at the Casa Sur Palmero Hotel in Buenos Aires, sparking a sea of tributes from around the world
The comments on the post have now been flooded with tributes to Liam following his death.
Several witnesses said Liam had fallen from his room at the Casa Sur Palmero Hotel shortly after 5pm (ART) Wednesday evening.
Fans have gathered outside the hotel, where emergency services are present, and a red tent has been erected.
Local police have since launched into the 31-year-old’s sudden death, as tributes flood in in the wake of the tragedy.
A police statement from local police said they arrived to the hotel after they were ‘informed of an aggressive man who may have been under the effects of drugs and alcohol’.
City ambulance service provider spokesman Alberto Crescenti said Mr Payne had fallen around 40 metres and suffered ‘severe injuries which were incompatible with life.’
He said: ‘The alarm was raised at 5.04pm local time saying a person was lying in an internal patio at Casa Sur.
‘At 5.11pm an ambulance arrived and the man was certified dead.
In what became his last Instagram post, on May 29, Liam had shared a 2013 snap with his bandmates while paying tribute to American documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock
‘Afterwards we found out he had been a famous singer. Unfortunately the injuries he had suffered as a result of the fall proved to be fatal. There was no possibility of resuscitating him.’
The star’s final Snapchat post showed him happily posing with his partner Kate Cassidy as they looked into a mirror – a picture which was originally taken last August.
Further posts from the final moments of the star’s life showed him enjoying lunch in his hotel room, where he revealed the pair had been ‘waking up at 1pm every day’ and deciding on Forest Gump as a Halloween costume.
Liam began his pursuit to stardom when he initially auditioned for X Factor in 2008.
At only 14-years-old Liam impressed judges with his own version of Fly Me To The Moon by Frank Sinatra – but was later eliminated from the show.
However Payne gave his singing career another go auditioning for the competition again in 2010, where he quickly shot to fame as part of One Direction.
He and his former bandmates Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson, were brought together by Simon Cowell and former judge Nicole Scherzinger who saw their potential as a group.
After just a few weeks of getting to know each other and non-stop rehearsing, the group impressed Simon at their Judge’s Houses audition and sailed through to the live shows.
The pop Svengali later admitted to Rolling Stone that it took him ‘about a millionth of a second’ to spot the group’s worldwide potential.
The fan reaction was instant too, with 1D hysteria soon dwarfing the show. Despite the adoration, the band ultimately finished in third place on the X Factor but shortly afterwards Cowell sealed their fate by signing the fivesome to a reported £2million Syco contract.
Several witnesses said Liam had fallen from his room at the Casa Sur Palmero Hotel shortly after 5pm (ART) Wednesday evening
Keen to capitalise on the boys’ already devoted fanbase, Cowell moved quickly with recording for the band’s debut album beginning in January 2011.
By September of that year One Direction’s first single was released with What Makes You Beautiful soaring to number one on the UK Singles Chart, after becoming the most pre-ordered Sony Music Entertainment single in history.
Their debut album, Up All Night was also a best seller, becoming the UK’s fastest-selling debut album of 2011, with the record leading to their first tour which kicked off in the UK that December.
After Malik announced his departure from the band in 2015, the band members went their separate ways.
During their time as a group, One Direction won five Brit Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, amassed over three billion YouTube views and sold 50 million records worldwide.
After releasing five albums with one of the biggest boybands of all time, Liam released his first solo album titled LP1 in 2019.
His singles Strip That Down co-written with Ed Sheeran climbed its way to number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart that same year.
