Enda Brady: UK correspondent on the tributes flowing in following the death of Liam Payne

Tributes are flowing in from fans following the death of former One Direction star Liam Payne. 

The 31-year-old fell off a balcony at an upmarket hotel in Buenos Aires - and was later pronounced dead.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says there's been outrage directed at TMZ, who posted pictures of the body directly on their website.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady UK correspondence with us Hey Inda, Hey,
Heaven speak to you in the sad news about Liam Payne.
So have we heard from his family yet?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
There's very very little by way of reaction from family
at the moment, but a lot of tributes pouring in
from celebrities and singers and everyone in the showbiz industry
who knew Liam. And I think people here this morning
are really struggling to come to terms with this because
he burst onto our TV screens as a fourteen year
old boy auditioning on X Factor. Now obviously fourteen is

(00:34):
too young. Simon Cowell loved his voice and said, you
know what, come back in two years time, come back
to me when you're sixteen, and he did, and he
just kept going. And then Simon Cowell saw something in
all five of those boys, and individually they weren't strong
enough to go off and have individual careers at the time.
Cowell put them all together and made one direction and

(00:56):
the rest is history. And I think it's just so
sad that he'd gone to Argent to watch his friend
from the band Niall Horan, who now has a very
successful solo career, the young Irish guy they were pictured
the other day in Buenos Aire's and now everyone's getting
ready to bring Lim's body back and prepare for a funeral.
It's so desperately sad. Thirty one years of age. He

(01:16):
had a seven year old son, Bear with Cheryl Cole,
who is herself, of course a pop star here and
very famous.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
She recal wasn't a judge on the thing, was.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
She She was? But not back then. I don't think
she was a judge when he came through, but she
has been a judge over the years. Matter many times
I've interviewed her. I didn't know Liam at all, but
I have to say, you know, just it's heartbreaking, I
think to see a guy everything in front of him.
There's a lot of information coming out and now about

(01:49):
behavior being erratic last night in the hotel in Buenos
Aire's reception calling the police to deal with an erratic guest,
and then when the police turned up they found him
dead in the courtyard.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, and have you caught up on the backlash with
TMZ and posting of the pictures of his body.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Look, TMZ, just push it too far. And I think
it's become such a behamuff of showbiz journalism. They don't
care about the impact on families. You know, there will
have been family members in the UK scouring the Internet
for information last night who feasibly could have come across
that coverage. There is no place in correct responsible journalism

(02:30):
for that kind of picture.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, so I see that there's a big capital gains
text which is coming for people who sell shares.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yes, so this is an easy hit really for the
labor government. Stammer is adamant that they're trying to just
fill the black hole in public finances left by the Conservatives.
Forty four billion en Z dollars is the whisper that
they need to find. So we've already seen the winter
Field payments for pensioners gone. That is gone. That's going
to bring in maybe three billion dollars of the black hole.

(03:01):
Rachel Reeves is the Chancellor and what they're going to do.
Capital gains at the moment is anywhere just around twenty percent.
So if you sell shares over the value of six
thousand dollars, the UK government comes calling with its handout
in the form of the taxman, saying what have you
got for me? So there is a whisper that capital
gains could go as high as thirty nine percent, from

(03:22):
twenty percent to thirty nine percent. I don't think they're
going to put it up that high. But ultimately what
we're seeing now is a lot of high net worth
individuals with colossal shareholdings getting rid of millions and millions
of dollars of shares before the budget in two weeks time.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Okay, now, how do you feel about a German taking
over the English football job?

Speaker 2 (03:45):
I think it's brilliant as an Irishman because I think
back to the success we had in the late eighties
and nineties with Jack Charlton, who was this burly yorkshire
Man English to the core. He came over to Ireland
and he was very blunt speaking, and I remember I
was a kid, I was a teenager. Ireland had achieved
nothing for a century in soccer and Jack Chardon turned

(04:08):
up and suddenly we qualified for the European Championships in
nineteen eighty eight in Germany, Italian ninety the Soccer World Cup,
we got to the quarterfinals in Rome, losing narrowly to Italy,
and then we went to the World Cup in America
in ninety four and actually beat the Italians in New Jersey.
So Jack Chariton, you know a lot of people thought,
who's this English guy coming over here telling us how

(04:30):
to do it? The whole country fell in love with
him and we went on the most amazing roller coaster
for years and years and years. So good luck to
Thomas Tookel in London. He's got an eighteen month contract
and it's clear he has been brought in to win
the Soccer World Cup. England have not done it with
the men since nineteen sixty six and I think he's
you know, honestly, he was a breath of fresh air

(04:51):
in the news conference. A sparky, charismatic German guy, you know,
I think and people are saying, oh can of German
fit in? But the England team he speaks English better
than most of the people who followed the England team
away having seen them on the ground. Honestly, he's going
to have no problems.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
There's such a funny coin from you Inda and Harsh
and I love it. Thank you so much. Into Brady,
UK Correspondent.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
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