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TV's Claire Sweeney 'bombarded' by messages after Zayn Malik Twitter follow

UK TV's Claire Sweeney has opened up on the effects of being followed on Twitter by a member of One Direction.

The actress and presenter noticed a boom on the social networking website after Zayn Malik started following her.

Sweeney told the Liverpool Echo that she received hundreds of curious messages from One Direction fans who had no idea who she was.

The TV personality said: "I woke up one morning to be bombarded by messages and an extra 300 followers. And all these messages were saying ‘who are you?’, ‘what do you do?’, ‘why is Zayn following you?’ I didn’t know what they were talking about, but then I realised Zayn had followed me.

“I just direct messaged him to say it was very sweet to follow me, and I said ‘Congratulations on your success, but your fans are bombarding me, god knows what it’s like for you’. He said ‘sorry about that, I like [TV show] 60 Minute Makeover so I thought I’d follow you’.”

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