Lewis Capaldi says he had no luck pulling girls at school because he smelled of hot dogs.
But the unlikely hunk has had the last laugh – as he now has enough money in the bank to buy a lifetime’s worth of wieners.
Recalling his lonely school days, the singer says: “I wasn’t a lothario by any means. It wasn’t my reality.
“Anyone who has two hot dogs with mayonnaise on them for their lunch every day is never going to be a lothario… and walks around smelling like a hot dog sweat.”
Since his hit song Someone You Loved helped put him on the road to success, the Glaswegian is now worth £8million and has dated Love Island beauty Paige Turley.
Lewis, who is back on the market since reportedly splitting from 21-year-old Scottish university student Catherine Halliday, reveals he “jumps the gun quite a bit” when it comes to romance.
“I’m quite on it,” he admits on the Headliners podcast.
“If someone sends me three kisses on a text, I’m like, ‘This is the one for me’. I don’t yearn to be in love, but I jump the gun quite a bit.
“It lends itself to writing good songs because you get your hopes up a bit. It’s good for songwriting because you can make mountains out of molehills in terms of the actual situation
“If someone speaks to me in a nice way… I could fall in love right here.
“I’m just a bit... maybe I read signals wrong. I try to keep it to myself for as long as possible.
“If I’m feeling like, this could be the start of something, I probably won’t tell that person I think that until we’ve been dating for a year.”
Lewis, 24, is right now busy working on new music with Rita Ora.
And while he may be pulling the girls now, he might want to check his etiquette after tweeting: “Letting wee farts slip out in the back of the Uber is pure nerve-wracking.
“High risk, high reward.”
Bet your Uber star-rating is no chart-topper, Lew.
