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Louis Tomlinson has recalled the moment he was informed about the death of his former One Direction bandmate Liam Payne – and he said “we all looked up to” the singer

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Louis Tomlinson has revealed Niall Horan informed him about the death of the pair’s former One Direction bandmate Liam Payne, saying “we all looked up to him”.

The 33-year-old said Payne had been pushing for a reunion of the band, which also included Harry Styles and Zayn Malik. Payne died at the age of 31 in October last year after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina.

Speaking to host Steven Bartlett on The Diary Of A CEO podcast, Tomlinson said he was in Los Angeles when he first heard of Payne’s death.

“In the car, in LA. I found out through Niall,” he said, telling Bartlett the news evoked a similar reaction to when his sister Felicite died of an accidental drug overdose in 2019.

“I had the same feeling that I had with Felicite, and I think anyone has this when they’re around someone who’s struggling; my 150 per cent wasn’t nearly enough.

“And that’s when it’s my own arrogance thinking that I could have helped really, because it was so much deeper than what I could have done for him. He was definitely struggling at that time in his life.”

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A post-mortem examination report said Payne died of multiple traumas and “internal and external haemorrhage” after falling from a third-floor balcony of the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires.

At the time, Tomlinson shared an Instagram post in which he said he was “beyond devastated” to have “lost a brother”. Tomlinson told Bartlett: “When I put up my post about him, I really wanted him to be remembered the way that he should be remembered. I could just go on and talk all day about how amazing he was, but I think we all looked up to him.”

Tomlinson also revealed that Payne had been campaigning for a One Direction reunion, but he said it would not feel “right”.

“Never say never… but I’m just not sure it would be right to (Payne). Say for the sake of argument, 25 year’s time, it’s like a f****** Oasis thing, they offer us an arm and a leg, and they’re like, ‘Come back and do this many shows’, I don’t know. (Payne’s death) just completely put a pin in all of that. And the irony is, there was no one campaigning for One Direction to get back more than Liam. I would say I came in a close second.”

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A court in Argentina dropped charges in February of criminal negligence against three out of the five people who had been charged in connection with Payne’s death.

At the Brit Awards in March he was remembered with a video montage which showed him with his family and a clip from his time on The X Factor and then with One Direction, who won seven gongs at the music awards before they split up.

Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, was followed by the woman – described as a “fixated individual” – in London and even in Nigeria, but he left the Royal Family years ago

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are “not entitled to security” because they are now just “mere celebrities,” it is today argued.

The damning claim comes despite Harry being followed on several occasions, including twice in London, by a stalker, described as a “fixated individual”. She came “within yards” of the Duke of Sussex during his recent visit to the UK, it emerged this week.

His own private security “body blocked” the woman after she entered a “secure zone” at a hotel, and two days later, she came within just “a stone’s throw” from the duke when he visited Imperial College London’s Centre for Blast Injury Studies.

But it is argued today Harry and Meghan are just “celebrities” now and therefore should not receive security paid for by the British taxpayer, despite the scares. Jane Moore, a columnist and regular on Loose Women, said: “I sympathise. But the right (or not) to state-backed police protection is decided by executive committee Ravec, which decided that, as he is no longer a working royal, he’s not entitled to it. Indeed, thanks to their various commercial deals, it could be argued that Harry and Meghan are now classed as mere ‘celebrities.’”

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Jane shared her opinion in a column in The Sun this week, stating the couple have pursued commercial contracts since moving from the UK to the US five years ago. They announced they were stepping back as working members of the royal family in January 2020. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were then told they would receive a “bespoke” security service, where they’d need to give 30 days’ notice of any plans to travel to the UK, with each visit being assessed for threat levels and whether protection is needed.

But Jane, 63, claimed Harry and Meghan should not be afforded such protection if they are now seen as celebrities. The journalist added: “With alarming frequency, the newspapers are full of stories about other celebrities (particularly women) whose lives are blighted by stalkers that they don’t get state-backed police protection from. So if Harry was to get it, then why not them?”

The publication referred to high-profile stalking cases, including that of Strictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas who moved her mother to a different home due to the behaviour of 37-year-old creep Kyle Shaw. However, Shaw’s prison sentence was suspended for 20 months at Liverpool Crown Court earlier this year.

Jennifer Aniston, who played Rachel Green in Friends for 10 years, has also addressed claims she chose not to have children because she’s a “selfish workaholic”

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Hollywood icon Jennifer Aniston has blasted claims she didn’t want to become a mother because she’s a “selfish workaholic”.

The Friends actress, who was married to Brad Pitt for five years, also told how she endured a two-decade secret battle to have a baby. In a rare interview published today, Jennifer, 56, said she felt she needed to correct the “false narrative” about why she hasn’t started a family.

Jennifer said: “They didn’t know my story, or what I’d been going through over the past 20 years to try to pursue a family, because I don’t go out there and tell them my medical woes.

“That’s not anybody’s business. But there comes a point when you can’t not hear it – the narrative about how I won’t have a baby, won’t have a family, because I’m selfish, a workaholic. It does affect me – I’m just a human being. We’re all human beings. That’s why I thought, ‘What the hell?'”

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Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar UK, the actress talked about her unsuccessful attempt at IVF – and admitted she wished she had frozen her eggs years earlier. Jennifer, who played Rachel Green in Friends for 10 years, continued: “The news cycle is so fast, it just goes away. Of course, there are times when I feel that sense of justice – when something has been said that isn’t true and I need to right the wrong. And then I think, do I really? My family knows my truth, my friends know my truth.”

The star split with Brad in 2005 after the actor met Angelina Jolie on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. In a previous interview, Jennifer said “nobody did anything wrong” in relation to the breakup. She since dated Justin Theroux for six years, a relationship which ended in 2017.

Jennifer described the subsequent IVF struggle as “a challenging road”. In a previous interview, the celeb, born in Los Angeles, California, had said: “My late 30s, 40s, I’d gone through really hard sh*t, and if it wasn’t for going through that, I would’ve never become who I was meant to be. I was trying to get pregnant.

“All the years and years and years of speculation… It was really hard. I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it.”

Jennifer was 35 when she split with Brad, who went on to have six children with Angelina. However, Jennifer previously said the suggestion he left her because she wouldn’t give him a child was an “absolute lie.”