A One Direction superfan says she's "not sure how she's going to manage to listen to their songs again" after Liam Payne's death. Izzy Hawksworth, 21, has been a fan of the boyband since she was just seven,

BUENOS AIRES/WOLVERHAMPTON, England, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Argentine fans of former One Direction singer Liam Payne, who died in a dramatic fall from his hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, gathered on Thursday afternoon around the city's central obelisk monument to remember the troubled boy band icon.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Former One Direction singer Liam Payne, 31, was found dead after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, local officials said.

Izzy Hawksworth, from Sheffield, said she is in shock over the death of Payne who was a "big piece" of her life. As an eight-year-old she came to love the boyband, watching and voting for them every week on The X Factor in 2010. She also remembers downloading their weekly performances to her Nokia "brick" phone.

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