Liam Payne has revealed that Niall Horan and Simon Cowell set him up with his girlfriend Cheryl.
The 1D star has been busy promoting his new single Strip That Down, and in a recent interview he admitted that it was his bandmate and boss that “hooked” him up with Cheryl over a year ago.
The pair have since welcomed their first child, Bear – but Liam has now revealed that their romance was all down to Mullingar man Niall and music mogul Simon playing cupid.
Speaking on BBC Radio1xtra, Liam said, “Niall came up to me and said, ‘You’ll never guess who’s got a crush on you?’ And I was like, ‘who?’ He’s like, ‘Cheryl'”.
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“Niall hooked it up. Simon kind of half hooked it up. I was saying something about Cheryl one night in (Simon’s) house, and he was like, ‘I think I know who is going to be the future Mrs Payne’, and I was like ‘Who are you on about?’
“He was like, ‘I’m not telling you, you’ll have to wait and see’.”
Liam then added that Simon embarrassed Cheryl one day by telling her that Liam fancied her, admitting that she, “She left the room bright red.”
“Then Niall told me this whole story and I was like, woah.” (They) played cupid. If you ever need anything hooking up, those are your boys”, Liam joked.
The news comes after Liam sparked speculation that he and Cheryl have married in secret, after referring to her as his “wife” in a recent interview over in the US.
