McFly star Tom Fletcher took up knitting on McBusted's tours

According to the Daily Star newspaper, Tom confessed: "I took knitting on tour with me and instead of going to the bar after shows I would back in my room, on my own, and knit.

"This was something I really didn't want my bandmates to know about so I couldn't open my suitcase when we got to venues and I did it under wraps.

"But there must have been a time when I got caught.

"They know now but I think they are genuinely embarrassed that a member of the band did this."

The band all know now, and have teased him about his uncool hobby.

Busted's Matt quipped: "I can't think of anything worse than knitting, there's nothing right with that."

Tom added: "It was my nan who got me into it.

"The only thing I can knit is scarves - oh no, actually I also knitted a Father Christmas hat and I still have it!"

Tom is multi-talented, as on top of being a musician and a wannabe knitter, the 'Obviously' hitmaker is also a children's author and co-wrote 'The Dinosaur that Pooped...' books with his McFly bandmate Dougie.

And he and his wife Giovanna, 35 - with whom he has Buzz, six, Buddy, four, and 21-month-old Max - have also created the 'Eve of Man' series.

The father-of-three recently spilled that there has been some discussions to turn the 'Eve of Man' stories into a TV series or a movie.

He said: "Yeah there's been some chat about that, some discussions. Who knows. I'd love to, we see it in a very visual way when we write it so I feel like, of all the books we write, this one could definitely lend itself to like a series or film."