Shawn Mendes is focused on rehearsing for his world tour but he’s finding out that everyone else is focused on his underwear.
“I knew this was going to happen,” he said Wednesday on the Brit Awards, when host Jack Whitehall brought up Mendes’ new Calvin Klein campaign. “This is all I’m going to talk about for the next month of my life, isn’t it?”
Mendes looked uncomfortable when Whitehall quipped that security guards at The 02 Arena are “quite hot on suspicious packages.”
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On the red carpet, the 20-year-old Canadian singer was asked about the global reaction to his sexy underwear pics.
“It’s been crazy, man,” he told Capital FM. “Honestly, just overwhelming.”
Mendes told Heat he was surprised by the reaction. "I didn’t know what to expect," he said. "I’ve never done anything like that before, so it was crazy."
Mendes said a lot of fans who asked him for selfies when he arrived at the airport in London had his underwear pics as their wallpaper.
He also took time with Capital FM to read some thirsty tweets about the Calvin Klein campaign. One fan noted that “the day one of the 1D boys does a calvin klein campaign we’ll die, especially if it is harry.” Mendes agreed. “Oh, if Harry did it, the world would be over,” he said.
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Mendes, who kicks off his tour in Amsterdam on March 7, will soon be having people talking about his music again.
“I have a lot of new music,” he teased. “I’m just trying to figure out what I want to release to you guys.”