Celebrity Life Don't miss out on the headlines from Celebrity Life. Followed categories will be added to My News. Super-fans mixed with the world’s media outside the CasaSur Hotel in Palermo Hollywood, an up-market suburb of Buenos Aires just hours after the death of One Direction star Liam Payne, 31.
The neighbourhood is used to a different kind of buzz – it’s the fashionable bar and restaurant district of Argentina’s famed capital, where locals and tourists usually dine on steak and sip Malbec into the small hours. Tonight, fans lit candles, placed flowers then spontaneously burst into song – sombre, downbeat versions of the band’s biggest hits, including a moving version of The Story of My Life . It was imbued with fresh poignancy, given the boy band member’s own story has been cut tragically short at such an early chapter.
The chorus of the song faltered as fans – mostly young women in their twenties who’d grown up with the band in their teens – could be heard crying and comforting each other. They gathered around a makeshift row of candles placed at a tree in front of the hotel, inside which Payne had fallen to his death from a balcony only hours earlier. Whatever problems or allegations Payne was facing in his life hadn’t deterred super-fans from travelling across the city to pay their respects.
Brunella Pucci, 25, was one such Argentinian fan. She travelled several suburbs to CasaSur tonight because she wanted to be among other fans, and share in .