Liam Payne will seem in Netflix’s latest competitors collection, with the blessing of his household.
The late One Direction star will function a visitor choose in Constructing the Band, which premieres July 9. The present, which is principally Love Is Blind, however for music, follows a bunch of singers as they try and put collectively the proper musical group with out ever assembly face-to-face.
Liam Payne’s household reviewed ‘Constructing the Band’
Payne’s involvement in Constructing the Band was introduced final August. However after his tragic demise two months later, it wasn’t clear if his work on the present would ever see the sunshine of day. Nevertheless, his household has since “reviewed the collection and is supportive of his inclusion,” in line with Netflix.
Along with Payne, Constructing the Band options Tony-winner Nicole Scherzinger as a mentor and choose, and Kelly Rowland from Future’s Baby as one other visitor choose. AJ McLean from Backstreet Boys hosts the collection.
McLean says the present is “in contrast to something you’ve ever seen earlier than — belief me.”
“At present’s most gifted singers in the world will audition for one another and select their very own bandmates earlier than ever seeing them,” he mentioned at Netflix’s Tudum dwell occasion on Could 31. “Our choose and mentor, Nicole Scherzinger, and visitor judges Kelly Rowland and the late Liam Payne, are from a few of the largest bands of all time. This present is all about one phrase: chemistry. And imagine me: in a band, you really want some good chemistry.”
AJ McLean dedicates new Netflix present to late One Direction star
McLean describes Constructing the Band as a tribute to Payne, who died in October 2024 at age 31 following a fall from a resort balcony in Buenos Aires.
“The very very last thing Liam did was work on this superb TV present for Netflix known as Constructing the Band, which will probably be out this summer time. And we’re dedicating the present to him,” he advised an viewers at 90s Con in Hartford, Conn. in March 2025 (through People).
“I received to actually know him on a private degree and we had a variety of very related life experiences, each in sobriety and out of sobriety,” he added.
After Payne’s demise, McLean remembered him in an Instagram put up.
“Phrases can not start to precise the ache I’ve for this man and the good loss now we have endured!” he wrote.
“We turned very shut nearly instantly and shared so many tales , laughs, and life experiences,” he added. Gone too quickly my pal. You have been such a light-weight an unbelievable particular person to be in the presence of each day whereas we labored collectively! I can not imagine you might be gone. Hold shining and preserve singing for us all to listen to. ”
Constructing the Band premieres July 9 on Netflix. Episodes launch weekly on Wednesdays via July 23.
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