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Harry Styles was the toast of the Grammy Awards on Sunday night with album Harry's House picking up one of the biggest gongs of the night.
The One Direction star won best pop vocal album and the highly coveted album of the year beating stiff competition from Beyoncé's Renaissance and Adele's 30.
When he accepted the prestigious award, Harry gushed: "This doesn't happen to people like me very often and this is so, so nice."
Harry's humble admission struck a chord with some viewers while others questioned the truth behind his claims as they pointed out some truths behind his rise to fame.
One fan tweeted: "Harry styles said 'this doesn’t happen to people like me very often' and I gotta be honest I can’t think of a type of people this happens for more."
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Harry Styles won Grammys for best vocal pop album and album of the year (Variety via Getty Images)"'This doesn't happen to people like me often' - @Harry_Styles. We beg to differ, Harry. Mediocre white men get glamourized, rewarded and awarded over exceptionally talented, amazing Black women like @ Beyonce all day, every day. Case in point is this AOTY win. #GRAMMYs," another added.
Others leapt to his defence as one wrote: "I think he means someone from a small, working class town with no connections becoming one of the biggest artists in the world, bc he said that after selling out Wembley, too but like... no one is gonna hear it that way?"
But UK fans of Harry were quick to dismiss the idea that the Grammy winner was from a "working class town".
Harry Styles' father Des, a finance director, separated from his wife Anne when his son was seven (Unknown)"All the reaches about Harry Styles being some representation of the English 'working class' are hilarious to me, just because someone's hometown is unglamorous doesn't mean they were growing up struggling lol," someone posted.
"He was raised in the town next to mine. It is a fairly damn middle class town," another agreed.
Harry was born in 1993 to Anne, an office worker and Des, a finance director in Evesham, Worcestershire.
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The singer gasped in disbelief as his name was called (lizzo/TikTok)When he was seven, he moved to the village of Holmes Chapel in Cheshire with his mum and sister Gemma after his parents divorced.
Reflecting on his parents' divorce, Harry said: "That was a really weird time. I remember crying about it.
"I didn't really get what was going on properly. I was just sad that my parents wouldn't be together anymore."
Harry Styles told fans "this doesn't happen to people like me" when accepting his Grammy (Getty Images for The Recording A)However, in a 2012 interview, Des claimed he wasn't an "estranged dad" and "used to see Harry and his sister Gemma every couple of weeks. I've always supported them financially and when I can emotionally."
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"It was a tough time to leave them but these things happen," he added.
Harry's mum Anne remarried in 2013 to Robin Twist and Harry was a best man at the wedding. Robin subsequently died from cancer four years later.
Harry worked at a bakery in Cheshire when he auditioned for ITV talent show The X Factor (Twitter)
Harry is now one of the biggest solo stars on the planet (AFP via Getty Images)The Harry's House hit maker worked in a local bakery when he was growing up and attended Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School.
However, his fortune changed forever when he auditioned for The X Factor in 2010.
Harry originally tried to make it as a solo artist before being eliminated.
Harry hit the big time when he became a member of One Direction (ITV)The mop-haired teen was then encouraged to join forces with fellow failed auditionees Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne and Niall Horan to form a brand new boyband.
While the fivesome lost out to Matt Cardle in the final, they went on to become one of the biggest boybands of all time.
The band went on indefinite hiatus in January 2016, in order to pursue solo projects.