• Fans react to Harry Styles drinking from a shoe at a concert in Australia.
• Harry Styles started participating in a “disgusting” custom.
• Styles referred to the “shoey,” made popular by Formula 1 racer Daniel Ricciardo.

Harry Styles started participating in a “disgusting” custom when he got to Australia.

The “As It Was” chart-topper performed in Perth on Monday night for his first Australian audience, shocking them by drinking from his Adidas sneaker.

Styles referred to the “shoey,” made popular by Formula 1 racer Daniel Ricciardo, as one of the most unpleasant customs he had ever heard of.

The 29-year-old former One Direction member is seen in videos of fans filling up his shoe with alcohol before downing it in front of a roaring audience.

He chuckled as he put his $780 Adidas x Gucci shoe back on his foot. “I feel like a different person.”

“I’m embarrassed of myself. It seems so intimate. A moment so private to be shared with so many people,” he continued.

I’ll have a detailed conversation about this with my therapist. In the end.”

As soon as videos from the concert started to circulate online, fans immediately responded on social media.

One individual posted, “Sweaty shoe juice no thank you,” while another questioned, “Why are people cheering? I feel nauseous.”

Others hypothesized that Styles’ use of the word “shoey” may have been a nod to Perth-born Ricciardo, whose merchandise he has previously been spotted sporting.

He created a shoe? One user tweeted, “Daniel Ricciardo is quite proud,” and another added, “Daniel Ricciardo approves this.”

Styles genuinely wears his merchandise “all the time,” according to Ricciardo, 33, who previously revealed this to Fitzy and Wippa.

In response to a question regarding the widely circulated image of Styles wearing his shirt, he said, “We have a mutual buddy who is, let’s say, quite close to me and it’s someone close to him as well.

The common acquaintance commented, “I can’t believe this hasn’t been picked up before because he wears the shirt all the time,’ when the photo first appeared on social media. Styles frequently appears in public while sporting the T-shirt.

After a successful night at the 2023 Grammy Awards earlier in the month, Styles makes his way to Australia. Harry’s Home, which also won for Best Pop Vocal Album, was the album of the year for the former boyband member.

The “Watermelon Sugar” singer has put out three albums since One Direction’s indefinite hiatus in 2015, appeared in blockbusters like “Dunkirk” and “Don’t Worry Darling,” and set a record-breaking 15-night residency at Madison Square Garden.

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