Harry Styles has revealed that the election of Pope Leo XIV interrupted his haircut in Rome.

The former One Direction singer was pictured amongst the crowds at the Vatican when the new pontiff was announced last May and admits that he only ended up there because his haircut was brought to a sudden halt by a moment of history.

Harry told BBC Radio 1: "It happened (when) I was getting a haircut in Rome, and then I just heard all these people start shouting: 'Habemus papam, habemus papam' ('we have a pope'), and people just start running down the street."

The 31-year-old star continued: "So the guy cutting my hair, stopped cutting my hair, and he was like: 'Habemus papam, there's a new pope, there's a new pope', so then we finished up, and then I was like: 'Oh, I'm like five minutes' walk (from history)', so I walked over there. It was wild."

Meanwhile, Harry - who has made a long-awaited return to music with his new single Aperture and will release his new album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally in March - described how he enjoys walking around London and living as normal a life as possible despite his mega star status.

The As It Was singer told BBC Radio 2's Scott Mills: "I think for a long time because when I first started touring and stuff…I think we spent a lot of time in hotel rooms. And I think the feeling becomes like, oh, I can't do things.

"It was really important to me…kind of when I then started doing more things, I was like 'Oh this is one…great for me…two…totally fine' and most people you meet out are wonderful.

"I think you can definitely choose to kind of shut yourself off from the world and it's been so wonderful for me and is something that is really important to me to stay in the universe.

"You know especially I think if you're trying to write and make music about ultimately the human experience it's hard if you're not living a very human experience...

"I used to just drive everywhere you know? I used to drive around London everywhere and I think in the last few years when I've kind of stopped doing that…it's like even the parts of the city that I've discovered that you miss if you're driving everywhere you know you find a little coffee shop that you wouldn't have seen otherwise and all these things that if you kind of allow yourself to be more open to it you're kind of rewarded."