Niall Horan washes away shower snap speculation

Pop star Niall Horan has reached out to fans to assure them a picture purportedly showing him naked in the shower is a fake.

The snap, which shows a nude male from the waist up washing himself in the shower, spread around the internet and caused a stir among One Direction devotees, who were adamant the man in the picture was Horan.

However, the Irish singer insists the photo isn't of him.

He took to Twitter.com on Tuesday (23Apr13) and wrote: “That’s not me by the way in that pic! I’d be happy with biceps like that though to be fair!"