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By DAN WOOTTON, Head of Showbiz 01:01, 11 Jan 2016

Controversy … One Direction star Liam Payne

ONE DIRECTION had a controversial 2015 and now it appears this year is set to be the same.

Less than two weeks into the New Year and LIAM PAYNE is embroiled in JUICY J’s drug riddle.

The singer can be seen exhaling smoke in a video filmed on the rapper’s Snapchat, just hours after Juicy J showed off his weed stash, lighters and other paraphernalia in another clip.

Juicy J … get high kit          

The US hip-hop star is well known for his love of cannabis, even having not-so-subtle song Smoke Dat Weed.

Now fans have been left wondering what Liam had been smoking in the video, which shows the two unlikely stars in a Los Angeles studio.

Mates … Liam (centre) and Juicy J (left)       

One snap is captioned by Juicy — who featured on KATY PERRY’s smash Dark Horse — as: “Making hits”.

He then turns the camera to Liam before later zooming in on what appears to be a plastic bag full of weed.

A source said: “Even though there’s no proof Liam was smoking any of the cannabis, it doesn’t look great on camera.

“He has millions of young fans around the world. Hanging around with someone openly taking drugs could be damaging for his reputation.

Liam has always been seen as the sensible one of the group, but it looks like he’s keen to shed that tag.

“Perhaps now 1D are going on an extended break he feels he doesn’t have to be quite so careful with his image.”

Last year NIALL HORAN was pictured jamming in a room with JUSTIN BIEBER and CODY SIMPSON with a suspicious-looking glass pipe on the table in front of them.

And in 2014 a video of now departed member ZAYN MALIK smoking weed in Peru while bandmate LOUIS TOMLINSON cracked jokes threatened to ruin 1D’s good-guy image.

At the time, Liam was the one who apologised to the band’s fans. Taking to Twitter, he explained: “I love my boys and maybe things have gone a little sideways. I apologise for that.”

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