Louis Tomlinson has donated a huge four-figure sum to pay for life-saving surgery for a former One Direction bodyguard.

Preston Mahon guarded Louis, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Zayn Malik during the height of their fame.

The bodyguard set up a GoFundMe to help to raise money to pay for a surgery to clear blocked arteries in both of his legs.

And one of the names to make a public donation on the page was Louis, who contributed a whopping £4,000 to Preston’s cause.

Preston – who guarded the whole of One Direction – told The Sun: ‘I’m so appreciative, it means the world to me.’

The grandfather suffered a clogged artery in his left thigh and needed a procedure to clear it, called angioplasty, at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham – which he was told he could receive once every two years.

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Louis Tomlinson has donated a huge four-figure sum to pay for life-saving surgery for a former One Direction bodyguard

The bodyguard set up a GoFundMe to help to raise money to pay for a surgery to clear blocked arteries in both of his legs

However post Covid the rules changed and in his last visit to see a medic, Preston was told: ‘Both arteries are blocked in both legs and there’s nothing I can do.

‘The next time I see you will be for bypass and amputation.’

Preston then chose to fly out to Spain to pay for a private operation to have stents fitted.

He has used all of his savings for the procedure, which will cost 32,000 euros in total to save both of his legs.

Louis’s kind-hearted gesture comes after he left fans ‘speechless’ as he released his new track, Palaces, on Thursday.

The singer, 33, who rose to fame as part of One Direction, seemingly paid reference to falling in love with girlfriend Zara McDermott in the lyrics.

Louis began dating former Love Island star Zara, 28, earlier this year after her split from Sam Thompson and went Instagram official with a sweet selfie this summer.

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Preston Mahon guarded Louis, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Zayn Malik during the height of their fame

And one of the names to make a public donation on the page was Louis, who contributed a whopping £4,000 to her Preston’s cause

Taken from his new album How Did I Get Here?, he sings: ‘I can feel it, something is happening/ Is it attraction I’m overreacting to/ Either way, this is not how I planned it/ You pull me in completely… You can stay for the night in the palaces of my mind’.

And Zara proved she is Louis’s biggest supporter as she took to her Instagram Stories to share that she was listening to the song. She simply wrote ‘incredible’.

Fans echoed Zara’s sentiment as they told Louis: ‘Each new song you release makes me appreciate your sense of musical composition even more, but with Palaces, everything changes, my ears have been blessed!! I love it’;

‘I am speechless, it’s so good’, while others called it their ‘favourite song’ of his so far.

Zara’s first Instagram post with Louis saw the couple kissing, under which Louis commented ‘I love you’.

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It comes after Louis left fans ‘speechless’ as he released his new track, Palaces, on Thursday

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Zara went Instagram official with Louis this summer sharing a sweet selfie kissing

Their relationship is clearly supported by their siblings, as Zara’s brother wrote ‘beautiful couple’, while Louis’s sister wrote ‘love love’.

It was first revealed six months ago that Zara and Louis were dating after they struck up a romance at the start of the year, but now friends say it’s serious.

And their romance is going from strength to strength as Zara moved into multi-millionaire Louis’s north London mansion.

It came after she moved back into her parents’ house after leaving the Fulham home she shared with Sam.