Admittedly For You doesn’t particularly require any knowledge whatsoever of the material – so Payne hasn’t ventured towards giving them a read.
“I haven’t read any of the books, I don’t think they’re aimed at my age range,” he said, according to The Sun.
“I don’t read much but the last book I did read was Russell Brand’s Recovery book. He’s got a really great outlook on things.”
The former One Direction star was speaking as he picked up two BRIT Award nominations for his song Strip That Down, which was one of the biggest hits of 2017.
Still, rumours suggest he wasn’t the first person approached to front For You – with Justin Bieber allegedly turning it down.

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A source told the Daily Star last week: “Originally Universal Pictures wanted Justin Bieber to sing a song on the soundtrack, either with or without Rita.
“He’s the biggest male pop star in the world and so that’s what they aimed for.
“They had the world’s biggest female pop star in Taylor Swift do the last film, so they were keen for something a bit different because Zayn Malik sang that with her and he comes from One Direction as well.”
Fifty Shades Freed marks the end of the trilogy, and the last time Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson will play Christian Grey and Ana Steele.
It follows just one year after Fifty Shades Darker, which performed well at the box office despite appalling reviews.
Fifty Shades Freed is out on February 9 in the UK.