Liam Payne was ‘having a lovely day’ in chilling final Snapchat before plunging to death
What appears to be the final photo of One Direction star Liam Payne was posted to one of the singer’s social media accounts shortly before news of his death broke.
Payne reportedly died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday, according to La Nacion, TMZ and GMA. He was 31.
He reportedly fell from his hotel balcony, though a cause of death has not been officially released.
The singer’s last photo on social media, posted to Payne’s Snapchat, showed Payne in jeans, a T-shirt and baseball hat sitting in a chair with his knees together, looking off in the distance, seemingly referencing a moment from the movie “Forrest Gump.”
“Halloween costume idea: forest gump,” Payne wrote in a caption over the photo.
The father of 7-year-old son Bear was active on Snapchat earlier in the day as well, uploading a shirtless photo picturing him with girlfriend Kate Cassidy and also posting a video with the caption: “Lovely day in Argentina.”
It’s not clear when the photos and videos posted Wednesday on Payne’s Snapchat were taken.
In the since-deleted clip, Payne and Cassidy revealed they planned to spend the day riding horses and playing polo. A caption on one of his Snapchat posts read, “Polo Liam unlocked.”
The former One Direction star said in another video that he and his girlfriend were “enjoying” their vacation time and shared a clip of him and the model making goofy faces direct to camera. “Quality time
,” he wrote in a caption.
He also shared a photo of him cradling his dog. “Out like a light,” the caption said.
He recently attended his fellow One Directioner Niall Horan’s concert in the Argentinian capital.
“We’re going to Argentina,” he said on Instagram recently. “One, because we want to. Two, because we want to. And three, because Niall Horan’s playing down there and I think we might just go and say ‘hello.’”
“It’s been a while since me and Niall have spoken. We’ve got a lot to talk about and I would like to square up a couple things with the boy. No bad vibes or nothing like that but we just need to talk.”
Payne was reportedly acting “erratic” on the day he died. He allegedly smashed his laptop on the front desk of his Buenos Aires hotel and had to be carried to his hotel room.
The singer became an international superstar after joining the boy band One Direction in 2010 while competing on “The X Factor.” The group broke up in 2016 after bandmate Zayn Malik, 31, quit.
Payne and his ex Cheryl Cole welcomed their son Bear in 2017.