Producer Naughty Boy has hit out at Noel Gallagher after the musician recently branded Zayn Malik a "f**kin' idiot" during an interview with the Rolling Stone. 

Gallagher's original quote, which was about Malik's decision to quit One Direction, is as follows: 

"It's a strange thing for that lad to have done at that age. The greatest quote was — I laughed out loud when I read it — "I just want to be a normal 22-year-old." Pfft. Who wants to be a normal 22-year-old?! Hang on a minute. You can be f**king anything that moves and gettin' paid half a million dollars a week, you f**kin' idiot. You want to be a normal 22-year-old? Have you met any normal 22-year-olds? They're f**kin' shit-for-brains."

Upon reading this, Naughty Boy decided to defend his close friend Malik by slamming Gallagher and suggesting that he will soon reach out to Liam in an attempt to reunite Oasis for the money. He tweeted: "@NoelGallagher will make up with his brother soon because they will need the money, let's stop talking about f***in idiots mate lol #oasis."

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