Naughty Boy hits back at Zayn Malik for 'fat joke' tweet

Producer Naughty Boy isn't happy with former One Direction member, Zayn Malik's comments on Twitter. Photo / Getty Images

Naughty Boy thought Zayn Malik was hacked when he sent him an angry tweet.

The former One Direction singer tweeted his friend and producer calling him a "fat joke" and Naughty Boy admitted once he found out it was real, he was quite upset.

He told Fuse.tv: "It sounded like one of the things the little girls who send me hate would say. I can deal with what he said but he knows the hate I've had to endure for him is the bit that upset me. That's not how I know Zayn to speak, even face to face. I definitely thought at first that he had been hacked."

Malik originally wrote: "@NaughtyBoyMusic you fat joke stop pretending we're friends no one knows you.

"Someone learned how to upload a video... maybe now he should learn how to use logic ha you ain't s*** but a faker (sic)."

@NaughtyBoyMusic you fat joke stop pretending we're friends no one knows you .

— zayn (@zaynmalik) July 13, 2015

Someone learned how to upload a video... maybe now he should learn how to use logic ha you ain't shit but a faker

— zayn (@zaynmalik) July 13, 2015

The messages were thought to refer to the snippet of a music video Malik shot with Krept & Konan for his cover of No Type which he reportedly believed Naughty Boy leaked.

Naughty Boy - whose real name is Shahid Khan - also hit out at Malik for insulting his physique, saying he should know better because he has young fans.

He said: "The fat joke thing wasn't necessary and he's getting a lot of backlash for that because a lot of his fans don't look like Selena Gomez. At some point as an artist you have to take responsibility for everything you say. That's why I think Zayn did it out of anger."

"I think initially when Zayn had tweeted that he had assumed I had leaked. I have never leaked anything of Zayn's. The cover we leaked together. Nothing has been leaked by me."

Despite the tweet, Naughty Boy insists he still plans to work with Malik in the future and still considers him a friend.

- Bang! Showbiz, with WENN