Is One Direction's Liam dating Leona?

Is One Direction's Liam dating Leona?
Is One Direction's Liam dating Leona? (Image credit: PA)

Liam Payne is rumoured to be stepping out with Leona Lewis. The One Direction star, who was reported to have split from his dancer girlfriend Danielle Peazer last month, has been on a couple of dates with fellow X Factor star Leona in the last week and is said to be 'really excited about how things are going'. A source told the Sunday Mirror: "As soon as the chance came to ask her out he grabbed it - and they really enjoyed their dates together. Although they were in London they managed to stay out of the limelight and are really into each other." And a family source apparently revealed that Liam had always had a crush on Leona, saying: "Liam has never made any secret of his feelings for Leona. It hardly went down well last year with Danielle when he practically admitted he had a crush on her. "Then earlier this summer Leona told how she enjoyed giving Liam advice about his career. It was all harmless fun at the time. But now Liam seems to have moved on to Leona." The insider added that the 19-year-old 'is not at all bothered about the eight-year age gap' between him and 27-year-old Leona. Liam had been dating Danielle for two years before it was reported that they had split. Leona previously dated German Dennis Jauch for two years, but they have also apparently parted company.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.