Tom Hardy: 'I'm not ashamed of underwear pictures'

British actor Tom Hardy has declared he has "no shame" after a set of old pictures showing him joking about in his underwear emerged online.

The Mad Max: Fury Road star hit headlines over the summer (15) when snaps from his old Myspace.com account went viral.

One of the pictures showed Hardy joking about wearing nothing but tiny underpants, while in another he is seen pulling down the front of his boxer shorts in a suggestive 'selfie' picture.

Hardy was asked about the snaps in an interview with Sky News, and the actor is adamant he has nothing to be embarrassed about.

He says, "I've got no shame about my MySpace photos, especially the one of me in my underpants which is a glorious photo of a man in his natural habitat. I might not be an Adonis, but I like to think of myself as an Adonis in that photo."

The account has since been deleted.