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Is liam Payne co parenting?

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Upordown · 26/10/2019 23:17

Happy to be flamed but when you are wealthy, yet admit you don't see your baby/young child for weeks, you are not co parenting? Everyone has their own priorities and ambitions, but at least one parent needs to prioritise ambitions around their child? I'm not saying it's always the mum, but don't you are not parenting if you see your child once a month or so...

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Pukkatea · 27/10/2019 11:12

@Sagradafamiliar I mean, I can't really say much because obviously I'm not supposed to know...but yes, I do know someone who worked very closely with one of them and they said he is not really the father.

CarolDanvers · 27/10/2019 11:19

There not their obviously!

Iamnotagoddess · 27/10/2019 11:22

Loads of weird shit goes on in celeb land.

Gay guys have babies with other “lesser” celebs who are paid and it raises their profile, people fake relationships they are contracted into 🤷‍♀️

EmeraldShamrock · 27/10/2019 11:25

CHERYL HAD HER EYES ON LIAM WHEN HE WAS 15 YEARS OLD. Surly that's wrong on anyone's standards. She is a control freak. Who would do that? She has pedo tendencies
Bullshit the boy's were between 16 to 19 at the time of audition, they were well matured before she got with him.
I don't think she is a control freak obviously I don't know her personally, pedo tendencies is an awful description of her.
FFS he was 20.

NK1cf53daaX127805d4fd5 · 27/10/2019 11:33

I think Cheryl comes across as very uptight and controlling. There is something 'off' about her. From stuff that he said when they were still together it sounded like she wouldn't let him do anything with the baby. I think she pushed him out of Bears life.

Now I still think he is weak for letting it happen and it doesn't excuse him but I'd she's a force to be reckoned with.

Raffles1981 · 27/10/2019 11:58

EmeraldShamrock - he was 14 when he auditioned.

Potnoodledoo · 27/10/2019 12:10

EmeraldShamrock - he was 14 when he auditioned.

She wasnt his mentor though and barely spent time together.

@Thatagain She has pedo tendencies
Then why not hop on him at 14.Why wait till hes in his 20s..

Waxonwaxoff0 · 27/10/2019 12:12

@Thatagain where's your evidence of that? I'm no Cheryl fan but you are really spouting some bullshit.

Raffles1981 · 27/10/2019 12:13

No, she wasn't, but her reaction when he first walked into the audition, would be considered slimy if it had been a guy and a 14 year old girl.

Sagradafamiliar · 27/10/2019 12:16

So he's just pretending he is for the shits and giggles then, pukka?

Homer28 · 27/10/2019 12:16

All this inappropriate age stuff is just ridiculous! He auditioned 1st at 14 and Cheryl was just doing the usual camera stuff..oh you’ll be a heartbreaker etc. Doubt she was interested in him then as a married woman! To meet later when he is in his 20’s is perfectly acceptable and the fact that she first seen him when he was a minor has no bearing on that!

Thesearmsofmine · 27/10/2019 12:18

Jeez there are some really odd posters on here!

Poor Liam was confused, bullshit! Two consenting adults had a relationship, chose to have a baby(if he didn’t want one he was perfectly able to use a condom or abstain or split from Cheryl). They broke up and now he is a shitty dad.

EmeraldShamrock · 27/10/2019 12:23

Shit he was 14.
I am more surprised it was 2008. Shock Where have to years gone.
I'm stuck in a time capsule I think.

EmeraldShamrock · 27/10/2019 12:23

The years.

ChilledBee · 27/10/2019 12:27

As a grown woman not a dissimilar age to Cheryl, I can't envisage seeing a boy ten years younger than you as a boy and then go on to see that boy as a potential partner when he grows up. It would be like dating one of my ex students, many of whom are grown ups with kids now. It's knowing them as a boy (while you are an adult) and then being sexually intimate with them that strikes me as weird.

TheFatberg · 27/10/2019 12:48

Yes he auditioned aged 14 but didn't get through and auditioned again at 16 and got put into 1D.

I'm pretty sure Liam knew his current girlfriend when she was younger as well, I'll see if I can find the article.

Pukkatea · 27/10/2019 12:48

@Sagradafamiliar I mean I'm not bothered if you don't want to believe a random on the internet...but as PPs have said, these sorts of arrangements are hardly uncommon in celebrity circles.

EmeraldShamrock · 27/10/2019 13:04

Yes he auditioned aged 14 but didn't get through and auditioned again at 16 and got put into 1D
I didn't realise he auditioned twice.

Thatagain · 27/10/2019 13:06

If anyone seen the first audition of liam (you tube it ) you would be shocked I was when I seen it years ago. I am the same age as her. I also have 3 DS so I do think she acted inappropriate to a 14yo boy. Then to go on and have his baby. It doesn't seem right. He was confused as he was groomed on camera in front of the nation. LOOK FOR YOUR SELF. We should be protecting our young boys/men as if a grown man said the same thing to teenage girl on camera then go on to have a baby with her he would be a pedo. Even if he waited for her to be 20 he still looked at the female in a sexual manner. Why or how is it different if a grown women does it?

Thesearmsofmine · 27/10/2019 13:23

@thatagain

I just rewatched it, please tell me which part you view as grooming? Because all I saw was her smiling when he sang(because he was good) saying he had charisma and was cute. Was Simon also grooming him by saying he was really good looking?

reginafelangee · 27/10/2019 13:30

It's amazing how many of you know Cheryl and Liam so personally that you know the intimate workings of their minds and emotions.

It's the same with Meghan threads.

Mumsnet posters are soooo well connected.

Sagradafamiliar · 27/10/2019 13:37

Pukka ok. I know enough about the circles to know all sorts of arrangements come about but never heard of this situation before. It doesn't even make sense.

Thatagain · 27/10/2019 13:38

OK I have been harsh on Cheryl although I still think she took advantage of him. The audition still creeps me. Then went on to have his baby is even more creepy. Sorry if I have offered anyone.

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