{"id":54625,"date":"2025-07-10T17:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T17:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/54625\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T17:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T17:06:09","slug":"nicole-scherzinger-on-filming-with-liam-payne-for-building-the-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/54625\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Scherzinger on Filming With Liam Payne for ‘Building the Band’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNicole Scherzinger<\/a>, mentor and judge on Netflix<\/a>\u2018s new reality show Building the Band<\/a>, is opening up about filming with Liam Payne<\/a> before the singer\u2019s tragic death last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Pussycat Dolls singer was one of the creative brains behind One Direction during her time as a judge on the U.K. X-Factor, helping to put together the group that catapulted Payne and fellow band members Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan to global stardom in 2010.<\/p>\n

\n\tScherzinger spoke to Billboard about filming the Netflix contest \u2014\u00a0where 50 musicians form six bands without ever seeing each other \u2014 alongside host AJ McLean, Destiny\u2019s Child star Kelly Rowland<\/a> and Payne.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe British musician died aged 31 after falling from a balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Oct. 16 in 2024. In a story published Thursday<\/a>, Scherzinger reflected on her time spent seeing Payne\u2019s rise to fame on the X-Factor and how much he appeared to enjoy shooting Building the Band.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI thought it was so beautiful to see the journey, to see Liam come full circle,\u201d Scherzinger said. \u201cEspecially my relationship with him, having helped form the band One Direction and then see him have such wildly, phenomenal global success with One Direction and with his solo career \u2026 [to see him] mentor these bands, it was really beautiful.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI saw the joy it brought to Liam. I felt that this was his happy place. Like myself, AJ and Kelly, we\u2019ve lived this. We\u2019ve learned it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe continued: \u201cTo be able to bestow any inspiration and knowledge and wisdom and experience on any of these contestants and these bands, it brought us all joy. Particularly Liam. I felt this really inspired him and this was his happy place. This was his happy place because Liam was such a beautiful heart, and he loved to give back. He loved to help.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing Payne\u2019s untimely death, the show\u2019s producers and the star\u2019s grieving family\u00a0weighed Payne\u2019s inclusion in the series<\/a>. Ultimately, with his family\u2019s consent, they\u00a0decided to move forward<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tEpisodes of\u00a0Building the Band\u00a0began rolling out in groups, starting with the first four, from Wednesday, Jul. 9. Scherzinger said about the format: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t get any more real than having a band put themselves together without any record execs or labels telling them what they have to do, what they have to look like.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat doesn\u2019t work anymore,\u201d she added. \u201cThat\u2019s the old formula.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicole Scherzinger, mentor and judge on Netflix\u2018s new reality show Building the Band, is opening up about filming…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[40440,171,40441,40442,975,4659,40443,6337,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-54625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-building-the-band","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-kelly-rowland","11":"tag-liam-payne","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-netflix","14":"tag-nicole-scherzinger","15":"tag-reality-tv","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114830035532377637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}