Zayn Malik was caught on video outside a Manchester hotel on 25 May as he tried to get into a car and, according to the clip and subsequent reports, shouted at people crowding the doorway to 'get the f*** out of the way.' The singer, who is on the UK leg of his Konnakol tour, appeared visibly frustrated as fans and paparazzi pressed close around him.
The news came after a tense week in which Malik had already faced trouble with fans during a Q&A event in Kingston, where video circulating online showed water bottles being thrown in his direction as he left the stage. That incident, combined with the hotel footage, has pushed his name back into the kind of unwanted headlines that usually arrive when a pop star's privacy runs into the chaos of public devotion.
