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When Harry was at school he used to pull his pants down to reveal his bum when people weren’t expecting it because he found it really funny.

A few weeks after moving into the X Factor house, the One Direction boys had great fun filming ‘Harry’s naked problem’ for the Xtra Factor. In the video Niall, Zayn, Liam and Louis sit around the kitchen table talking to the camera while Harry (completely naked) makes himself a bowl of cereal. ‘I’m really, really worried about Harry,’ Louis ‘’fesses’. ‘I feel like he’s going nuts. He just can’t, he just can’t keep his clothes on and it’s interrupting our practices. How are we supposed to concentrate when he’s walking around in the nude?’ Liam agrees, saying, ‘We just want to be singers, good singers, and we’re trying to concentrate and he’s getting naked every time. There’s absolutely nothing we can do about it.’ ‘He’s always in the nude!’ Louis adds.

While Liam and Louis are talking to the camera, Harry moves around the kitchen, his privates hidden by various objects. They all had to be very coordinated to get it right – when he moved to the table, Zayn looks through an X Factor book and passes it to Niall at just the right time, so that Harry can move at the same time and be appropriately covered. The video ends with Harry grabbing the book and moving out of the camera’s range. (It did take more than one take to get it right, though, as Harry and Zayn mistimed the book move once so that Harry revealed too much!)

In another episode of Xtra Factor, a short clip showed Harry in their bedroom, sitting up on the top bunk without any clothes on. An Xtra Factor logo had been added post-production.

Cheryl Cole, who was mentoring the Girls category that year, had never seen Harry naked, but she has seen more of him than most. When Sugarscape asked her whether she would date him, Cheryl replied, ‘Harry? I’ve seen Harry in his boxer shorts… Harry’s a little brother type, but I get it; the girls go crazy for him – and the women.’

Harry isn’t the only member of One Direction to like stripping off. The group told the Daily Star: ‘We have trouble keeping our clothes on. We’ve always got our kit off in the X Factor house – we love a bit of skin flashing.’

In an October 2011 interview with the Sun, Harry revealed that he has four nipples, and since then the media have published any photos they can get of him without his top on. ‘I’ve got four nipples,’ Harry confessed to the paper. ‘I think I must have been a twin, but then the other one went away and left its nipples behind!’

He also spoke of his love for getting naked, saying, ‘Stripping off is very liberating – I feel so free. I think you could safely say I’m not shy.’

As well as being known for his love of taking his clothes off, Harry is known for his curly hair. His sister Gemma used to be his hairstylist but X Factor bosses banned her from cutting his hair as soon as he made it through to the live shows. Instead, he had to visit a backstage hairdressing room so that the stylists could do his hair before the live shows on Saturdays and Sundays. On the wall they put up a poster of Harry with hair stuck all over it and a ‘Dirty Harry’ headline was stuck on the mirror.

Adam Reed was the man in charge of making sure that Harry’s hair looked good on The X Factor. Previously, he had worked with Lady Gaga and Madonna so Harry must have felt like a true star. Adam advised Harry that his hair’s condition would improve if he only washed it once a week because the natural oils would start to flow. Occasionally he used dry shampoo on Harry’s hair to get it looking its best.

As well as having his hair professionally styled Harry also had to get used to wearing makeup and having to moisturise his skin to keep it feeling soft and refreshed. The makeup artists on X Factor put gel on his eyebrows and balm on his lips. (After X Factor finished, Harry was to have a new hairstylist: Lou Teasdale.)