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"According to reports this morning, One Direction&amp;amp;rsquo;s Liam Payne is apparently, allegedly, supposedly dating his long term crush Leona Lewis. We&amp;amp;rsquo;ll give you a few seconds while your jaws hit your keyboards.  A &amp;amp;quot;close family source&amp;amp;quot; has told The Mirror that 19-year-old Liam has managed to already go on two dates with Leona, 27, despite only breaking up with Danielle Peazer (and Leona look-alike, ahem) days ago. &amp;amp;ldquo;He is really excited about how things are going with Leona. &amp;amp;ldquo;As soon as the chance came to ask her out he grabbed it &amp;amp;ndash; and they really enjoyed their dates together. &amp;amp;ldquo;Although they were in London they managed to stay out of the limelight and are really into each other.&amp;amp;rdquo; Scapers know all too well, Liam has never made a secret of the fact that he massively fancies la Lewis, even back in January 2011 he told us, &amp;amp;ldquo;My celebrity crush has got to be Leona Lewis... love Leona Lewis.&amp;amp;rdquo; The romance between the two (Lioma?) apparently started earlier this summer. &amp;amp;ldquo;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. &amp;amp;ldquo;He is not at all bothered about the eight-year age gap.&amp;amp;rdquo; When we asked Leona back in September last year about Liam&amp;amp;rsquo;s crush on her she described him as &amp;amp;ldquo;the sweetest boy&amp;amp;rdquo;. &amp;amp;quot;Basically, through my Twitter I was getting inundated with these girls telling me that I needed to follow Liam Payne, literally to the point where my Twitter wasn&amp;amp;rsquo;t working, so I was forced to follow him,&amp;amp;quot; she told us. &amp;amp;quot;Then I found out that he is a fan of mine and really likes my music. &amp;amp;quot;I met him and he is just the sweetest boy - he is so lovely, so I&amp;amp;rsquo;m really pleased that everyone got me to follow him!&amp;amp;quot; The insider also revealed that while Liam was always faithful to Danielle, his constant touring with 1D put a massive strain on their relationship.  &amp;amp;ldquo;Liam has jetted around the world with girls lusting after him,&amp;amp;rdquo; said the insider. &amp;amp;ldquo;While he was never unfaithful, it was hard for Danielle to cope. &amp;amp;ldquo;She would have loved to have seen more of Liam, but his career had to come first. It&amp;amp;rsquo;s sad they&amp;amp;rsquo;ve had to part. But you could understand why a woman like Leona Lewis would be able to cope with Liam&amp;amp;rsquo;s superstar status.&amp;amp;rdquo; So we might have to go to bed now, get back up and make sure we didn&amp;amp;rsquo;t just dream this. In the meantime check out our interview with Liam where he confesses his feelings for Leona.  Oh and have a look at this story where Leona says she&amp;amp;rsquo;d never go out with a member of 1D. Awkward. IMAGES: WENN AND PA "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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