Liam Payne was honoured at the 2025 Grammy Awards three months after his tragic death. The singer-singerwriter’s fans were hoping that the One Direction band members, including Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles and Niall Horan would reunite to honour their late friend at the annual award ceremony.
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However, the executive producer of the Grammys show, Ben Winston confirmed that they are not performing. Despite that, Winston revealed that the late singer will receive a tribute during the In Memoriam section. “It is a very difficult time. Losing Liam was very, very tough. No doubt about it. But, no, there will be no One Direction performance,” he told Entertainment Tonight.
The In Memoriam segment featured Chris Martin singing the Coldplay song “All My Love” as the ceremony honoured music stars who died over the past year, including Liam Payne and Toby Keith.
The tribute began with snippets of footage of Payne including from his time as a member of One Direction.
“He was the most beautiful, wonderful boy and I love him very, very much. He is in, of course, our In Memoriam, without question,” he gushed. “Actually that [Payne’s passing] is a very sad thing for me — when you are going through rehearsals and seeing the clips and a guy that was sat in this office four weeks before that tragedy happened,” Winston added.
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