“The X Factor UK” contestant Barclay Beales is reportedly “mortified and upset” after his naked photo appeared online. The 19-year-old singer, who is part of the boy group Stereo Kicks, doesn’t have an idea how the private image was leaked.

The photo shows Beales posing on a bed naked while his trousers rest on his ankles. It is said to have been taken over a year ago, but only surfaced after he appeared on the ITV reality music competition show. It was initially shared via the phone app Snapchat, and now appears on various Web sites with the caption “Vote Barclay.”

“This was a very intimate picture showing a moment behind closed doors around a year ago, which was never expected to see the light of day,” a source told the Mirror. “But since he became popular on The X Factor, the photograph seems to have found its way into the public domain and nobody is quite sure how.”

The insider continued, “Barclay is shocked that it has been shared on the Internet He is desperately hoping it doesn’t go any further than it already has. But he explained the situation to his bandmates, who were very supportive. They’re a very tight-knit group now and these sort of incidents have made them stronger.”

He is not the first “The X Factor UK” contestant of this year, or even the first Stereo Kicks member, whose nude photo has been shared online. In October, his co-band member Jake Sims learnt that the nude selfie that he apparently took when he was underage has been posted on the Internet.

Unlike Beales, however, Sims knew how the photo circulated. He apparently shot his own nude photo, which sees him in front of a bedroom mirror, in 2012 when he was still under 18 years of age. He tweeted the photo himself, captioning it with, “here’s my nude, lol. Yolo x x ((sorry if you see this mum)).”

He deleted the photo a short time later, but it has resurfaced since he appeared on the show. He allegedly received tweets threatening him with the photo’s leak if he does not “follow” accounts.

“I was young and stupid when I posted that picture. It’s bad enough when you send a picture to someone and they leak it but I’ve no one but myself to blame,” Sims told the Sun. “It was embarrassing and I was worried it would affect the band negatively. But most of the guys just high-fived me and the fans commenting just said, ‘Impressive.’”

Stereo Kicks is a newly formed boyband consisting of eight members who auditioned as solo artists. Judges Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh put them all together, thinking that they would create the next big boy band from the show. Apart from Beales and Sims (19), the members include James Graham (18), Tom Mann (21), Chris Leonard (19), Casey Johnson (19), Reece Bibby (16) and Charlie Jones (14).

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