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A Complete Timeline Of Liam Payne’s Dating History

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Liam Payne, formerly a member of the band One Direction has died at age 31. Payne had been holidaying in Buenos Aries with girlfriend influencer Kate Cassidy, who, according to Page Six, had left two days prior to the singer’s death. Celebrities, friends and family are currently responding to the news of Liam Payne’s death, including ex-fiancé  Maya Henry, with whom the singer had a tumultuous relationship.

Since achieving fame at age 16 as a member of One Direction, Liam Payne has been rarely single and has had several high-profile girlfriends. We’re looking back at Payne’s dating history, including his ex-Cheryl Cole, with whom he shares a child, Bear Grey Pain, and his most recent girlfriend, Kate Cassidy.

Liam Payne’s Relationship History:

Kate Cassidy, 2022-2024

Liam Payne and Katie Cassidy attend The Fashion Awards 2022 pre-ceremony drinks at the Royal Albert Hall on December 05, 2022 in London, England. (
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Liam Payne was most recently dating influencer Kate Cassidy, 25, who he was holidaying with at the time of his death. The singer had shared a mirror selfie with Cassidy just days before the incident. Daily Mail reported that Payne and Cassidy were first seen at a Halloween party together in October 2022. They took their relationship public in November 2022. Cassidy and Payne were an on-again-off-again couple. After seven months dating they split around May 2023, according to US Weekly. Evidently, by 2024 the couple were back together.

Aliana Mawla, 2022

Payne met model Aliana Mawla, 26, while shooting his music video for Familiar. As reported by Hollywood Life, the pair were seen at arm-in-arm at Heathrow Airport shortly after Payne confirmed his breakup with fiancé, model Maya Henry. At the time Maya Henry commented on an Instagram fan page saying “I love all the fans so much, but please stop sending me these pictures of my fiancé wrapped around another woman. This is not me, and it’s hard enough knowing this has happened without seeing it. Enough now.”

Maya Henry, 2018-2022

Liam Payne and Maya Henry are seen on March 24, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.
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Liam Payne’s relationship with ex- fiancé model and author Maya Henry was fractious. Just a week before Payne’s death, according to the Tribune, Henry retained lawyers and issued a cease and desist, accusing Payne of repeatedly calling her, her friends and her family. Daily Mail Henry’s representatives as saying Henry is currently “obviously in shock” over news of the singer’s death.

Earlier this month, Henry posted a TikTok video in which she alleged Payne had taken extreme measures to attempt to contact her following their breakup. “Ever since we broke up, he messages me, will blow up my phone, not only from his phone number, it’s always from different phone numbers, so I never know where it’s going to come from,” she said.

Henry and Payne were first seen together in August 2018, but didn’t go public with their relationship until September 2019. According to People, they were engaged the following year but announced a split in June 2021. At the time Payne said. “it was best for both of us.”

In an interview with the Diary of a CEO podcast, he said, “I’m just not very good at them [relationships], so I just need to work on myself before I put myself on someone else. And I feel that’s where I got in my last relationship.” However, they were back together in October 2021. They broke up again in 2022, with Henry seemingly implying that Payne had cheated on her with Aliana Mawla.

“I definitely chose to forgive a lot of things. When you love someone so much, you have those rose-coloured glasses. You’re in denial…” Henry told People in May 2024.

Cheryl Cole, 2015-2018

Cheryl and Liam Payne attend The BRIT Awards 2018 Red Carpet, The O2, London, UK, Wednesday 21 Feb 2018. (
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Cheryl Cole, 41, is the mother of Liam Payne’s seven-year-old son Bear Grey Payne. The pair first met when Cole was on the audition panel for the X Factor. As per Hollywood Life, Cole was impressed by Payne. At the time, she told Payne, “I like you, I think you’re really cute. I think you’ve got charisma.” Cheryl Cole and Liam Payne began dating in 2015, and made their first public appearance at Eva Longoria’s Global Gift Gala. In March 2017, they welcome their child Bear.

“On Wednesday 22nd March Liam and I became parents to an incredibly beautiful, healthy baby boy, weighing 7lb 9 and looking like a dream. Although he doesn’t have a name he is already stealing hearts. We are all madly in love and overwhelmingly happy with our little arrival. Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers around the world. A day that now has a different meaning to me forever,” Cold wrote in a post on Instagram.

In a since-deleted post, Payne wrote: “I’m incredibly happy to welcome our new baby boy into the world; it’s a moment that I will never forget for the rest of my life and my favourite memory I have so far. “I’m completely in awe of his incredible mother and how she has been the whole way through this. She’s really made my dreams come true. We haven’t named him yet, but he’s already capturing hearts, including mine. I feel very blessed.”

However, as reported by The Sun, in July 2018, Payne announced that he and Cheryl had broken up, writing that they had made a “tough decision” and “still have so much love for each other as a family.” Cole and Payne remained on good terms with Liam Payne telling Glamour he loved co-parenting with her in 2021: “Cheryl is literally the best person to co-parent with. No stress involved. It’s very, very relaxed, and we spend a lot of time on FaceTime.”

Sophia Smith, 2013-2015

Sophie Smith and Liam Payne
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In 2013, Liam Payne started seeing his childhood friend Sophie Smith. Hollywood Life reported that Smith, then 21, ended the relationship in 2015 because she wasn’t ready to settle down. “Sophie felt their relationship was at a point where they either made a decision to get married and settle down, or they go on and do something else and experience more of the world,” a source reported to Hollywood Life.

Danielle Peazer, 2010-2012

Danielle Peazer Liam Payne
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Payne met Danielle Peazer at an audition for the X Factor in 2010, and dated her for two years. According to Daily Mirror, the pair reportedly split in 2012 with sources citing the difficulty of maintaining the relationship as Liam’s career saw him travelling more and more.

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