Liam Payne pays boyband HUGE compliment before making awkward gaffe in new episode of Netflix's Building The Band

The Irish Sun

7 days ago

BUILDING The Band judge Liam Payne doesn't hold back in love-bombing a boyband on the show that remind him of the early days of One Direction.
In the new episode of the Netflix talent contest, which drops today,
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Mentor Liam Payne on Netflix show Building The Band
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He tells them: 'It was really
nice
to spend a bit of time with you guys earlier on.
'I've got a very big soft spot for you boys, you remind me a lot of what we were like.
'Don't let me down – boybands!'
Liam also seems to have quite a bit of faith in them, as he shares some tips on how to work crowds in stadiums should they ever get the same level of career as his One Direction did.
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He tells them: 'When you're in a stadium you can see the front rows of people but everything else becomes one big crowd, so you're trying to move a section of the crowd, not just one person, so everything's got to be quite big.'
His gushing is reciprocated when one of the boyband members tells Liam: 'We all looked up to you boys so much and we want to be that
next
band.
'You guys kind of shied away from that Nineties boyband thing.'
Then he suddenly realises he's standing next to host
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Awkward.
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Dawson's Creek stars Joshua Jackson and Katie Holmes reunite on the set of their new movie Happy Hour
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The actors played Joey and Pacey on the cult teen drama
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There's a few more laughter lines and flashes of silver, but
The two actors, who played Joey and Pacey on the cult teen drama, were all smiles as they were reunited on the New York City set of their new
film
Happy Hour.
For five years from 1998, young viewers on both sides of the Atlantic were gripped by the intertwined romances among the strangely deep and mature adolescents that resided in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts.
After the show ended, the cast went their different ways and had very different life experiences.
Katie married Tom Cruise, while
dating
its star, the late
Meanwhile, Joshua has arguably enjoyed something of a later life renaissance in his career, starring in TV shows including The Affair and Doctor Odyssey.
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Keeley Hawes, who plays a hitwoman, gives her son, played by Freddie Highmore, a deadly lesson in an exclusive shot from Prime Video thriller The Assassin
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It's normally delightful to see a mother teaching her child new skills, but in the case of one new Prime Video thriller, it's more spine-chilling.
This exclusive image from The Assassin shows
And anyone who sees the first, bloody three minutes of the show – which drops on Friday – will understand why it's probably for the best.
Troy's antique passion
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Troy Deeney reveals he became an Antiques Roadshow fan while serving time in prison
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The Antiques Roadshow has an unlikely fan in former Premier League bad boy
The ex-Watford ace turned broadcaster says he got
hooked
on the long-running
BBC
series in the most unlikely of places –
prison
.
Deeney, who will soon be appearing in Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, said watching the show helped him pass the time while he was
football
.
He said: 'I was a little bit naughty at one point and basically when I was in jail, I had a lot of time watching Antiques Roadshow.
'I'd watch Antiques Roadshow and that one [Bargain Hunt] as well where they used to run round and buy things and then try to sell it.
'These couples had grafted all day and they'd got 90 quid and they're like 'Yes, we won'.
'It was a bit sad, but it got me through a lot of jail time.'
I doubt anyone would be brave enough to mock him.
Football play Dear
England
, which is being turned into a TV drama, will soon return to the stage with a national tour.
It will star former EastEnder
Plymouth
.