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Inside Liam Payne's rocky romance with Cheryl: How pressures of parenthood and struggles with drugs may have fuelled split - after they first crossed paths when he was 14
When Cheryl first crossed paths with the waistcoat-clad, mop-haired Payne, she was already a bone fide star - although Payne was clearly not too overawed by her celebrity.
One of those judges, alongside Simon Cowell, Dannii Minogue and Louis Walsh, was Cheryl Tweedy, then 25 and a pop veteran who had herself been catapulted to fame six years earlier in ITV reality show Popstars: The Rivals. While he had failed to make it through early X Factor auditions in 2008, after returning to the show two years later for another try – when Ms Tweedy was still a judge – he was put together with Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik to form One Direction. In the book Cheryl Cole: The Unauthorised Biography, John’s mother Angie revealed that the former pop star wrote him a letter begging him not to destroy his life, and Ms Tweedy also spoke out herself about the impact his death had had.
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