One Direction’s Liam Payne DENIES naked picture is of him: ‘I’d rather tweet a full frontal than have people look at THAT’

heat's favourite tweeter Liam Payne has managed to tie himself in wordy knots all over again, this time over a naked picture that's doing the rounds purporting to be of him and a gentleman friend.

The snap – which heat has seen, and tbh we do believe Liam here – shows a guy who looks very much like the One Direction singer naked and in a compromising position with another man, in some sort of mid-market hotel room.

But Liam wasn't having any of that, and quickly took to Twitter to address the rumours:

Um, unfortunately his phrasing meant that a few people assumed he was being a bit… homophobic? Yeah, homophobic, about the possibility of him being naked with a random dude, so he had to tweet again to sort out the misunderstanding.

Oh Liam. Never stop being you.

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