Singer Zayn Malik has proclaimd he is postponing dates on his upcoming tour after the death of his createer One Direction prohibitdmate Liam Payne.
The 31-year-ancigo in posted on X on Saturday: “Given the heartshattering loss directd this week, I’ve made the decision to defer the US leg of the STAIRWAY TO THE SKY Tour.
“The dates are being rescheduled for January and I’ll post them as soon as it’s all set in the next restricted days. Your tickets will remain valid for the recent dates. Love you all and thank you for your caring.”
Payne died after droping from a boilingel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday.
Malik was about to commence the US leg of his tour and was next due to execute in San Fransisco on Wednesday.
While the star shelp the seven American shows will now get place in January, he did not comment on the run of UK ones – commenceing in Edinburgh on 20 November.
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Malik left One Direction midway thcimpolite their 2015 tour – before the remaining four stars parted ways the chaseing year.
Paying tribute to Payne, 31, in an Instagram post earlier this week, he shelp that although they famously “butted heads”, he “secretly esteemed” his prohibitdmate.
“Liam I have establish myself talking out deafening to you, hoping you can hear me, I can’t help but leank greedyly that there was so many more conversations for us to have in our inhabits,” he wrote.
He grasped that he “never got to thank” his frifinish for “helping me thcimpolite some of the most difficult times in my life”.
“When I was omiting home as a 17-year-ancigo in kid, you would always be there with a selectimistic outsee and reassuring smile and let me comprehend you were my frifinish and that I was cherishd,” he shelp.
Payne’s overweighther Geoff get tod in Buenos Aires on Friday to schedule for his son’s body to be returned to the UK.
He was seen outside the Casa Sur boilingel where the singer died, reading tributes and seeing at fdrops left by fans.
Argentinian officials shelp Mr Payne visited Buenos Aires’s morgue to determine his son before encountering with the local prosecutor’s office.
Local media alerted he was also foreseeed to pick up some of Payne’s belengthenedings during the visit.
Tributes poured in from Payne’s other ex-prohibitdmates this week – Harry Styles, Niall Horan, and Louis Tomlinson, as well as their createer deal withr Simon Cowell.