HAVE LIAM PAYNE AND SOPHIA SMITH SPLIT? 'HE IS INCREDIBLY SAD, BUT IS GOING TO KEEP BUSY' 

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​In a week that\'s already made us about as emotionally stable as a three-legged coffee table, rumours have now come out claiming love\'s actual dream - One Direction\'s Liam Payne and Sophia Smith - have split.

Obviously, being rumours, we don\'t know if there\'s even a millimetre of truth to this all yet, but if it IS true then we\'re officially declaring love to be totally dead and will immediately start work on crafting ourselves our very own castle which we will live in with all of our cats and probably a few other woodland creatures too.

Preferably ones from Disney films that will sing to us when we\'re weeping into our washing up bowl and bring us slices of pizza in bed. 

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Speculation that the couple\'s two-year relationship was in trouble started when Liam tweeted: "I love how music is always there for you when you need it most x​."

Eagle-eyed fans then put their detective caps on to discover that Sophia had seemingly deleted every photo of her and Liam from social media, before the gorgeous gal herself appeared to deny the rumours by posting a photo of #Sophiam on Instagram, captioning it: "​i love you more and more every day. #stop #the #rumours."

However, it was later discovered that the photo was posted by a fake account, not by Sophia.

Now, a source has told the MailOnline: "​Liam and Sophia have split up. Liam is incredibly sad, but is going to keep busy

​He really hopes that everybody will respect both his and Sophia\'s privacy and stop speculating."

Minnie & goofy ha as long as mickey doesn\'t know I guess it\'s ok right?

We\'re going to need a kingsize box of tissues, enough Ben & Jerrys to feed us for a year and the Friends box set, stat. WE\'RE NOT EMOTIONALLY EQUIPPED TO DEAL WITH THIS, NOT TODAY SATAN.

We\'ve all been more concerned about Liam than our mothers are about us this week as One Direction were forced to cancel the first gig they\'ve ever cancelled after Big Payno was taken suddenly ill.

While Harry spoke to Chris Evans about the, er, messiness of Liam\'s illness, other reports claimed he\'d had a \'complete breakdown\' before the Belfast gig, leading some to wonder whether this rumoured split had anything to do with it.

Until we get some sort of official confirmation or denial of the split, you\'ll probably find us doing some snotty sobbing into a big tub of ice cream to console ourselves. We\'re probably watching The Notebook too (and both Liam and Sophia are welcome to join us if they too need some comfort).

We hope both Liam and Sophia are doing okay, whatever\'s going on. Let us know your thoughts on all this with a tweet to the usual place, please and thanks.

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