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Justin Bieber: Singer's father says he is a 'proud daddy' after seeing penis pictures

The picture spread appeared in a New York tabloid

Andrew Buncombe
New York
Friday 09 October 2015 12:41 EDT
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Singer-songwriter Justin Bieber attends the 2014 Young Hollywood Awards brought to you by Samsung Galaxy at The Wiltern on July 27, 2014 in Los Angeles, California.
Singer-songwriter Justin Bieber attends the 2014 Young Hollywood Awards brought to you by Samsung Galaxy at The Wiltern on July 27, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Ari Perilstein/Getty Images for Variety)

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Rather odd.

That’s all that can really be said about comments made by Jeremy Bieber’s father after paparazzi images suggested his son had been generously rewarded in the below-the-belt department.

“What you feed that thing?” he wrote on Twitter. “#Proud daddy.”

The comments of Mr Bieber - at once embarrassing, creepy and just plain strange - were almost as awkward as the New York Daily News’s high-minded feature that included full-frontal photos of the 21-year-old singer while he was on holiday in Bora Bora, in the South Pacific.

The images sparked a debate about the invasion of privacy, the publicity machines behind today’s celebrities and the hypocrisy of people pretending to be outraged by such things.

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