Zayn Malik at funeral of One Direction bandmate Liam Payne

Other members - Harry Styles, Niall Horan, and Louis Tomlinson - were also at the service in St Mary’s Church in Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

Girls Aloud members Kimberley Walsh, of Bradford, and Nicola Roberts were there to support Cheryl Tweedy who shares son, Bear, with Payne.

Kimberley Walsh arrives at the funeral service (Image: Jonathan Brady)

Styles, dressed in black, arrived in a BMW alongside TV star James Corden and the pair went straight inside the church, while music mogul Simon Cowell arrived with his fiancée, Lauren Silverman.

A horse-drawn carriage arrived at the church carrying a dark blue coffin with silver handles, topped with white roses.

On top of the carriage, there was a red floral tribute which said “son” and a blue tribute which said “daddy”.

Silence fell upon the crowd as Payne’s father Geoff and his mother Karen got out of a vehicle and stood behind the reverend, next to the carriage.

Other guests included Payne’s girlfriend, US influencer Kate Cassidy, who arrived alongside Damian Hurley, the son of model Elizabeth Hurley.

Also in attendance were singers Marvin and Rochelle Humes, former professional footballer Robbie Keane, broadcaster Adrian Chiles, and radio DJs Scott Mills, Jordan North, Sian Welby, and Chris Stark.

Dozens of locals and fans gathered outside the church to pay their final respects.

Harry Styles arrives at the funeral service (Image: Andrew Matthews) Payne, 31, died on October 16 after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.

Following Payne’s death fans around the world held vigils in his memory, including a shrine to the late star in his hometown of Wolverhampton.

He died of multiple traumas and “internal and external haemorrhage”, a post-mortem examination report said.

Payne rose to fame alongside Styles, Tomlinson, Malik and Horan when Simon Cowell put them together to form One Direction on ITV talent show The X Factor in 2010.

Malik this morning (Image: Ben Baker) He had first auditioned in 2008 when he was 14, singing Frank Sinatra’s Fly Me To The Moon, with judge Cowell telling him to return to the talent show two years later.

In 2010 he impressed the judges with Michael Buble’s version of Cry Me A River before being put with four other solo hopefuls at the boot camp stage of the competition – the group which later became One Direction.

Payne went on to launch a successful solo career, releasing his debut solo album LP1 in December 2019, which included the songs Polaroid and Strip That Down featuring Quavo.