Liam Payne‘s closing TV sequence, Netflix‘s Constructing the Band, will debut this summer season with the late One Route star as visitor choose. The announcement was made by the streamer’s Chief Content material Officer Bela Bajaria ar its upfront presentation.
“Folks will likely be obsessive about Constructing the Band coming this summer season, hosted by AJ McLean,” Bajaria stated. “Contestants will likely be judged and mentored by Nicole Scherzinger, with Kelly Rowland and the late Liam Payne.”
Netflix greenlit and wrapped the present previous to Payne’s loss of life final October and had confronted a dilemma over tips on how to proceed, intent on consulting the singer’s household on the choice. In January, Constructing the Band was listed on Netflix’s 2025 slate, with the streamer’s unscripted chief Brandon Reigg saying on the time that the corporate was in contact with Payne’s household with no closing determination made as to the One Route star’s involvement within the sequence.
Payne was visitor choose on Constructing the Band alongside Future’s Baby singer Rowland and Pussycat Doll Scherzinger. Produced by Banijay-backed Exceptional Leisure, the present is a Love is Blind-fashion expertise contest through which singers type their very own band with out having the ability to see one another.
The sequence culminates in three stay exhibits that have been filmed in late August in entrance of an viewers at Aviva Studios in Manchester. Payne’s followers flocked to observe the recording, with some posting on social media about assembly the singer.
Payne died after falling from the third-floor balcony of a resort in Buenos Aires. 5 individuals have been charged in connection together with his loss of life.
