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Liam Payne’s friend files defamation lawsuit against late singer’s father

Geoff Payne, the father of late One Direction star Liam Payne, [https://www.expressandstar.com/entertainment/showbiz/]has been named in a US defamation lawsuit by the singer’s friend Roger Nores

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'I stayed in a Boeing 747 hotel and got to sleep in the cockpit with sole access to the first class cabin'

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