He runs 1D Alert, an X account dedicated to One Direction news and updates with over 300,000 followers. To Azar, and so many others, the band provided an escape from depression and bullying.

Former One Direction singer Liam Payne, one-fifth of the British boy band, died outside a hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, local police confirmed Wednesday. He was 31.

Celebrities are mourning the loss of former One Direction band member Liam Payne. News broke on Wednesday, October 16, that Payne died at age 31 due to sustaining injuries after falling from a ...

Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson shot to superstardom after forming the boy band One Direction in 2010 before they went their separate ways in 2016.

Celebrities have flooded social media with tributes for the late One Direction singer Liam Payne, several of whom are other famous boy band members. The Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean told TMZ on ...

Before One Direction became One Direction, its members auditioned for the U.K.'s “The X Factor” separately. The judges decided to put five promising, but not yet excellent, boys into a group.