One Direction heartthrob Harry Styles has admitted that he was so nervous about his first kiss that he lied to the girl in order to save face.

Speaking to Top of the Pops magazine, the 'What Makes You Beautiful' singer explained that he told her he had kissed other girls so that she would think he was cool, when in reality she was his first smooch:

"I was 11 and I was in my house with my best friend and this girl and her friend."

"We were just watching a film and then we kissed. I think I pretended I’d kissed someone before because it was cooler."

When asked if the girl was impressed by his lip-locking skills, Styles joked: "Probably."

Meanwhile, Styles was recently hit in the groin at a One Direction concert by a flying shoe thrown by a fan who just "wanted him to touch something belonging to me".

Watch Styles with fellow bandmate Liam Payne during their emotional visit to a hospital in Ghana to support the UK's annual charity benefit Red Nose Day below: