Simon Cowell is helping ABC develop “Who’s in the Band,” a music-competition show purportedly in search of the next One Direction, with Joe Jonas, Mel B and Savan Kotecha as fellow judges, a person ...

Liam Payne was initially rejected from the British talent competition series X-Factor before a behind-the-scenes clip named him One Direction‘s “leader.” The 31-year-old singer, who was found dead in ...

One Direction and Simon Cowell have a whole lot of history. The founding members of the boy band — Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson — initially auditioned for The ...

Just before Liam Payne’s unexpected death, The X Factor was looking back at how One Direction got its start. The group finished third in season 7 of the UK hit music competition show in 2010, and with ...

Former One Direction singer Liam Payne, 31, whose chart-topping British boy band generated a global following of swooning fans, was found dead Wednesday after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos ...