Liam Payne once confessed to being "fearful ... finishing third on the show behind winner Matt Cardle and runner-up Rebecca Ferguson.

Liam Payne's death in Buenos Aires ... it soon became evident that they were the music industry's winning bet. Matt Cardle, the winner, would soon distance himself from the show and its producers.

X Factor star Mary Byrne is looking almost unrecognisable from her time on the ITV talent show, some 15 years after appearing alongside One Direction and Liam Payne. In the year that Matt Cardle ...

Although they finished third on the show behind Matt Cardle and Rebecca Ferguson ... Since then, the band, consisting of Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson ...