Niall Horan finally responds to backlash over Dustin sketch on The Den

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soon enough ‘Respect Niall Horan’ was trending on Twitter.Now the 26-year-old singer has confirmed that he was in on the joke.During an interview on Sirius XM, the host remarked that the Mullingar man was ‘in a fight with a turkey now.’‘Oh yeah this has kicked off big time,’ Niall replied. ‘So there’s a few characters that did an afternoon TV show in Ireland for years, like puppets, and one of them is known to be quite brash but in the most Irish way possible.‘So my fans have completely retaliated against the turkey and it’s kicked off… and he’s like our national mascot so I’m kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place, where I don’t know whether to tell the fans that like, it’s a puppet, and to actually realise that our national.