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Billy Zane Jokes About Zayn Malik One Direction Tweets: “It’s Z-A-N-E, Not Z-A-Y-N!”

Wrong guy! Billy Zane is confused why he suddenly has a plethora of crying teenage girls as fans. The Titanic star poked fun at Zayn Malik’s emotional One Direction exit in a video for Funny or Die, telling fans that although he appreciates the love, he’d like to point out they’re spelling his name wrong.

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Billy Zane jokes about Zayn Malik’s One Direction exit in Funny or Die video.

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“I woke up to a real spike in [my] awareness…this whole hashtag ‘always in our hearts Zayn’…I had no idea all my fans were hysterical teenage girls,” Zane tells the camera while scrolling through an iPad.

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“I don’t want to be nitpicky, but just for the sake of record, it’s Z-A-N-E, not Z-A-Y-N,” the actor clarifies after reading a series of emotional tweets about the 22-year-old’s exit from the mega-successful boy band.

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Zayn Malik at the 2013 American Music Awards at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles.

Zane’s confusion comes after even the Boston mayor addressed the world’s One Direction loss.

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“We are all devastated about Zayn Malik,” Mayor Marty Walsh tweeted on Wednesday, March 25, “But we must soldier on.”

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