{"id":7324,"date":"2012-03-02T14:10:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T13:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=7324"},"modified":"2012-08-20T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T17:11:08","slug":"things-to-know-about-liam-payne-from-one-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/7324\/things-to-know-about-liam-payne-from-one-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to know about Liam Payne from One Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Liam Payne One direction bio\" src=\"\/images\/music\/onedirection\/1d_newxf09.jpg\" alt=\"Liam Payne One direction bio\" width=\"291\" height=\"217\" \/>Liam Payne and his band mates from One Direction are taking over the world, a vision that has become a reality for their X Factor mentor Simon Cowell.<\/p>\n<p>If at first you don\u2019t succeeded, try again. This must surely be the motto of Liam Payne given his X Factor journey. In 2010 this likely lad from The West Midlands impressed the X Factor judges with an amazing rendition of Michael Buble \u2018Cry Me a River\u2019 to make it through to the next round of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Although he did not progress as the solo artist he was aspiring to be, he is a great admirer of the lads from R&amp;B group JLS and it was clear that he more than any of the One Direction members was over the moon to have a group of his own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are a few additional facts to know about Liam Payne:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"30\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"550\">\n<p>1. Liam was born on 29th August 1993.<br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n2. Liam&#8217;s middle name is James and his star sign is Virgo.<br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n3. Liam Payne was rejected twice as a solo contestant. He previously auditioned for The X-Factor competition in 2008 but only made it to the judge\u2019s houses phase.<br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n4. Liam&#8217;s favourite sport is boxing.<br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n5. Liam claims he owns a pair of pink hair straighteners.<br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n6. Liam only has one kidney (after an operation as a kid), so he doesn\u2019t drink alcohol, just to be on the safe side.<br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n7. Liam\u2019s musical talent includes being able to play the Guitar and Piano.<br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n8. Liam is able to Beatbox and he can do it on cue.<br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n9. His celebrity crush is Leona Lewis.<br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n10. He has two sisters: Nicola (22) and Ruth (20).<br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n11. At his second &#8216;X Factor&#8217; audition, Liam sang &#8220;Cry Me a River&#8221;, and received a standing ovation from the audience and judges.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>More Liam facts coming soon.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7469702309\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>More Liam Payne facts coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Payne and his band mates from One Direction are taking over the world, a vision that has become a reality for their \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/7324\/things-to-know-about-liam-payne-from-one-direction\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-7324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onedirection","tag-liam-payne"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7324"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8725,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324\/revisions\/8725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}