One Direction's Niall Horan has rubbished rumours he's followed in the footsteps of his bandmates and had a tattoo.

The Irish charmer is the only member of the five piece to not have a body inking - with Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson all boasting tattoos.

Horan has now taken to his Twitter page to deny reports that he's had a cheeky design on his butt, writing: "Gettin a lot tweets about tattoos! I didn't get a tattoo! Not plannin on gettin one for a while either haha (sic)."

Earlier this year Horan talked about getting an inking on his butt but admitted he never went through with it.

He revealed to The Sun: "Harry and Zayn are going at it with the tattoos. They are covered now. Harry seems to have a different one every day. I was going to get a barcode on my wrist with my date of birth written across it. To be fair, I don't even know if I really wanted it."

He added: "I decided to get Made In Ireland in green on my a**e cheek and I went to the place in L.A. where they do it. Me and the boys went in and they said they wouldn't do it. They said: 'The skin on your a**e is too squidgy. It needs to be tight.' I suspect they actually did me a favour. It wasn't the best idea in the world."