Just before Liam Payne’s unexpected death, The X Factor was looking back at how One Direction got its start. The group finished third in season 7 of the UK hit music competition show in 2010, and with the meteoric success it experienced in the years that followed,

Liam Payne’s ex-girlfriend Danielle Peazer is sharing her reaction to the singer’s death. Peazer, 36, who dated Payne for two years after meeting on the U.K.’s talent show The X Factor in 2010, posted a tribute to the late singer on Saturday,

One Direction and Simon Cowell have a whole lot of history. The founding members of the boy band — Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson — initially auditioned for The X Factor UK in 2010 as solo acts.