I'm not single: Jade Thirlwall

London: Little Mix singer Jade Thirlwall has confirmed she has a boyfriend.

Thirlwall, who is rumoured to be dating The Struts bassist Jed Elliott, said she is in a relationship during a comical exchange on live TV in which her bandmate Leigh-Anne Pinnock completely forgot she was taken, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

During a conversation about going out on the girl group's upcoming “The Get Weird Tour”, Jesy Nelson revealed Perrie Edwards, who split from her fiance Zayn Malik last summer, intends to be "naughty" on the band's upcoming shows.

Speaking on breakfast show “Good Morning Britain”, Nelson explained: "She turned round to me today and said, 'I'm going to be naughty on this tour'."

Edwards replied: "No, no you can take that the wrong way! I mean like on the last tour I'd just go straight to my bunk, go to bed and I wouldn't go out, I wouldn't party or anything, and now I'm like, 'Yeah!' "

Referring to Thirlwall and Edwards, Pinnock then began chanting: "Single Geordies alone together, single Geordies..."

But Thirlwall replied: "I'm not single!"

Pinnock immediately apologised, saying: "My bad, very new, very new here. Sorry. I forgot!"