Children’s TV show The Den made a return to screens with Dustin, Ray, Zig and Zag during the Irish charity broadcast and Niall had stopped by to perform his song Black and White.
But, fans weren’t left impressed when Niall was cut off and the puppets joked that they had wanted his One Direction bandmate Harry Styles on the show instead.
They were heard saying: ‘Niall, we wanted Harry Styles, you’re only getting a minute and a half.’Of course, it was all tongue-in-cheek, but some Niall fans called out the show for being disrespectful.
One Niall fan account shared a clip of Niall being cut off and tweeted: ‘What they did to Niall was extremely disrespectful and rude.
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