'He was a big piece of my life': Your tributes to Liam Payne

For galore of those paying tribute to Liam Payne, the One Direction prima reminded them of their childhood.

The boyband played a ample portion successful their lives arsenic children and teenagers, and due to the fact that of this Payne's decease astatine the property of 31 has travel arsenic a daze to them.

Fans of the vocalist person been speaking to BBC News with their thoughts.

Izzy Hawksworth, from Sheffield, said she is successful daze implicit the decease of Payne who was a "big piece" of her life.

As an eight-year-old she came to emotion the boyband, watching and voting for them each week connected The X Factor successful 2010. She besides remembers downloading their play performances to her Nokia "brick" phone.

One chiseled representation is erstwhile her parents amazed her with tickets to The X Factor unrecorded tour, she said it was "crazy seeing them successful the flesh". She added that the time aft the performance astatine schoolhouse radical brought successful their signed merchandise and showed their pictures.

"Definitely successful superior schoolhouse it [the fandom] was similar however the Swifties are."

She went connected to spot the set aggregate times, dropped to the level erstwhile Zayn Malik near the set and was arsenic upset erstwhile the radical split.

Despite not seeing Payne successful performance arsenic a solo artist, the present 21-year-old inactive felt connected to him due to the fact that helium felt similar portion of her childhood.

"He's ever been a changeless portion of my life. It's rather nostalgic listening to those songs and takes maine backmost to erstwhile you are younger. Because of that I consciousness a large portion of myself has benignant of gone."

One Direction superfan Faith May, 21, from Surrey, said she cried erstwhile heard astir Payne's death, with the quality coming arsenic an "awful shock".

She remembers watching the video diaries of Payne and the radical connected The X Factor and learning astir their antithetic personalities.

"A batch of radical volition beryllium similar it's conscionable a celebrity, but it's not true... it's similar going done the stages of grief for idiosyncratic you emotion - it's precisely the same."

As a girl, Faith admitted to being "obsessed" with the boyband.

She said: "One Direction wallpaper, I had a One Direction hairdryer, thing you tin deliberation of.

"They had a 1D Day - a full time for One Direction - and I retrieve staying up each night, it was specified a large thing.

"The clasp they had implicit young girls, young people, and adjacent mums and dada - it was a worldwide sensation."

She besides remembers begging her creation teacher to creation to Payne's archetypal solo azygous Strip That Down, and admits she had been surviving successful anticipation determination would beryllium a One Direction reunion astatine immoderate point.

"How tin this hap to idiosyncratic truthful young and truthful successful, with truthful overmuch much to give? We are agreed successful heartbreak."

Eleanor, from Middlesbrough, said she was a One Direction "fan girl" successful superior school.

"We would spell astir connected the playground and speech astir our crushes from the band," she said. For the past nine-year-old, Payne was her personage crush.

"I had a One Direction backpack I think, astir apt the unusual t-shirt, but definite I tin retrieve the blow-up sofa which had each the members' faces connected it," she said.

The assemblage pupil said aft the set divided listening to Payne's solo euphony portion playing video games helped her to relax.

The 18-year-old besides described however she was looking guardant to a reunion and said she recovered Payne inspiring for being rather open astir his conflict with addiction.

"Even though helium mightiness beryllium seen arsenic a arguable person, it is simply a tragedy, and I bash consciousness atrocious for everyone who looked up to his band, his household and friends."

Beth Lewis, from Darlington, was six years aged successful 2014 erstwhile Payne made her privation travel existent - to sing to him and One Direction.

Beth has a bosom information and Payne had been an ambassador of the children's foundation Rays of Sunshine, which aims to brighten the lives of earnestly sick children by granting them wishes.

Now 16, remembering the time she said: "I besides got tickets to a performance afterwards to spell with my mam and dad.

"It was thrilling. The thought of maine being determination singing with them was an utter pleasure.

"Me and Liam besides stock the aforesaid day (29 August) truthful I volition 100% beryllium celebrating his day adjacent twelvemonth successful representation of him."

Speaking of the lawsuit for sick children, her parent Nicola said: "They invited her down connected the small signifier and, yeah, she sang a opus with them – 1 of their songs – and she was the pb vocalist and they were similar the backing singers and it was lovely.

“It’s truly bittersweet to perceive Liam has mislaid his beingness for immoderate reason.”

Jane Sharpe, trustee astatine Rays of Sunshine, said Payne "through his unwavering kindness" brought truthful overmuch joyousness to the lives of the earnestly sick children whose wishes helium helped the foundation grant.

"His bequest volition unrecorded connected successful the cherished memories helium helped create," she added.

Angharad Binns, from Stevenage, met Payne and the radical successful their aboriginal days.

"On my 30th day I saw them coming retired of Yo! Sushi with their manager," the One Direction instrumentality said.

"I was like: 'Oh my gosh! This is amazing'."

But contempt their manager saying she could not instrumentality a picture, it was Payne and Harry Styles who convinced him different arsenic it was her birthday.

"Liam was truly lovely. He stood retired arsenic precise down to world and appreciative.

"They hadn’t released immoderate euphony yet truthful we got to chat a while."

Jo Constable, from Bristol, also had a accidental brushwood with Payne whilst connected her honeymoon successful London. At the clip the radical were filming the One Thing euphony video.

"I saw a gaggle of girls astir and realised they were filming the euphony video," she said.

"I managed to get a representation with Liam. He was precise nice. He gave maine a beauteous photograph and told maine it was bully to meet."

Jo past featured successful the euphony video. Despite not being a superfan, she says gathering Liam and being successful the video is her amusive information till this day.

"Whenever the opus comes connected successful public, my lad tells radical that mum is successful the euphony video!"