Liam quizzed over Geordie lingo skills
HE may have a Geordie girlfriend – but how well does Liam Payne know the local lingo of Newcastle?
On Friday morning, the former One Direction star appeared as a guest on the Capital North East Breakfast Show, and hosts Bodg, Matt and Hannah couldn’t resist putting his knowledge of Geordie slang to the test.
Liam and Cheryl have been an item for over two years now, but has she managed to educate him on the difference between all things proper canny and proper shan?
Well, he didn’t fair too badly, and he also revealed that Cheryl uses one particular Geordie phrase quite a lot on him.
“She calls me a little radgie so she’s like ‘shut up you little radgie’,” he joked.
“‘Ah, shut up you little radgie.’ I get that a lot. I get a bit excited sometimes – she says ‘you little radgie’.
“Or if I say something cheeky to her, like about her bum or something, she calls me a little radgie.”
Liam also said he’d be very keen to join up with Cheryl for a gig at Geordie fairground institution The Hoppings.
Host Hannah said to him: “So, you know how you’ve just done Global Village in Dubai, which is like the biggest funfair in Dubai, you know…like tens of millions.
“There’s a place called The Hoppings in Newcastle, if you could ask Cheryl to take you to the Hoppings and do a gig there, that would be ... the North East would go crazy for that, I’m telling you, it would be mint.”
And Liam seemed up for the idea, responding: “Let’s get me and Chez to do it. I’m there.”
Liam was also asked if he and Cheryl would be up for bringing a tour to the North East, to which he replied: “I used to perform in car parks and old people’s homes and everywhere on my own when I was younger.
“I did a lot of crazy different gigs, so I’m more than up for coming and bringing old Chezza down. Can’t call her old Chezza – she’ll absolutely kill me.”
In a previous interview the sing- er opened up about the proudest moment of his life – the birth of his son Bear.
He said “every minute” of the labour was imprinted on his memory.
He told Popbuzz: “Seeing the birth of your child is the most proud moment you can ever have. It’s also the craziest and like mixed emotions you’ll ever feel.
“It was insane but you can just remember every minute of it. There’s a lot of things that are kind of blurry but that one’s like straight in there.
“And then you can just remember being in the waiting room afterwards just holding him feeding him a little milk after he’s just been born.”