One Direction star, Zayn Malik, 22, was photographed holding hands with pretty blonde, Lauren Rich, during a night out at Seduction Club (ironic much?) in Phuket, Thailand. In another snap the boy band heartthrob has his arm around the young woman as well as his hand on her stomach in another shot.
Lauren took to Instagram to share the moment captioning the snapshot, ‘Partying with Zayne from One Direction last night’ #thailand #1D #best #night #patong #phuket’
Zayne, who is engaged to Little Mix’s Perrie Edwards, 21, immediately took to twitter after the pictures emerged to declare his love for his wife-to-be. ‘I’m 22 years old… I love a girl named Perrie Edwards. And there’s a lot of jealous f**ks in this world I’m sorry for what it looks like x.’
We’re unsure how Zayne explains the fact he was holding hands with Lauren though? Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time Zayne has been rumoured to have a wandering eye (and hands?). In 2013, before the engagement, it was claimed that the 22-year-old singer cheated with stripper, Courtney Webb, after a night of partying together.There was also the fact that she shared pictures of Zayne fast asleep with his shirt off. Courtney later claimed that she didn’t know he was famous.
Although Perrie hasn’t yet commented on the scandal, she did Instagram a pic and seemed to be making an effort to cover her ring finger with a giant black jumper. Adding fuel to the fire, the pair haven’t been photographed together in over two months; the last time was in an a pic she posted to Instagram.
We can’t be certain, one thing we know for sure is that where there’s smoke there’s fire…and that always seems to go in one direction…