Rebecca Ferguson said she had attempted to contact her former X Factor co-star Liam Payne a week before his death because she had been “worried about him for a while”. The singer-songwriter, who appeared in the final of The X Factor with One Direction in 2010,

The singer, who took part in The X Factor alongside Liam Payne's band One Direction, has spoken out in the past about duty of care on TV shows.

Singer Rebecca Ferguson has issued a strongly-worded statement following the death of fellow X Factor finalist, Liam Payne. Payne died aged 31 on Wednesday after falling from a third-floor balcony at his hotel in Buenos Aires,