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Zayn Malik pays heartfelt tribute to 'brother' Liam Payne on stage in the late One Direction star's hometown of Wolverhampton: 'I hope he sees this'
The singer, 31, kicked off his Stairway To The Sky tour in Leeds's O2 Academy, with an on-stage blue screen message which read: 'Liam Payne 1993-2024. Love you bro' with a pink heart.
Malik rescheduled his tour's original opening dates in Edinburgh due to Payne's funeral, which was also attended by his fellow One Direction stars Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan. Following Liam's unexpected death aged 31 after falling from the third floor of his hotel balcony in Buenos Aires last month, Zayn announced he was postponing the US dates of his tour (One Direction pictured in 2013) Liam died on October 16 after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Argentina, with his One Direction bandmates seen in public together for the first time in nine years as they paid their respects at his funeral on Wednesday.
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