It added: “We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.”
Payne died after falling from the third floor of a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Outside the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, there were supposed to be hundreds of fans queuing to get into the final day of auditions for Britain’s Got Talent.
Simon Cowell and his fellow judges had been filming there since Tuesday.
Instead, the crowds were told this morning that recording was cancelled and sent home.
