A FEW THEORIES THAT MAY EXPLAIN THE REAL REASON 5SOS'S ASHTON IRWIN CUT OFF ALL HIS HAIR 

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As people of the world, you will probably have heard by now that Ashton Irwin of 5 Seconds of Summer fame made a fairly momentous life decision this week, concluding that the time had finally come to get a hair cut.

This was no meagre trim either, and gone are the sweeping curls that you\'d got used to seeing him waving about in the air like he just don\'t care. In fact it\'s all very short and snug to the noggin\' in the style of fetus Ashton.

However, the real question remains: why did Ash decide the time had come for such a drastic hair cut? And what has he done with the left over hair? We can\'t imagine he\'d bin it when there is plenty of moolah to be made auctioning it off, but after trawling eBay (ahem), we can report that it is yet to be listed as an item for sale.

So, putting our reputation as an establishment committed to being #lazyjournos on the line, we\'d like to present to you several theories that explain why Ash decided to be shorn like the proverbial sheep of his homeland.

We\'re pretty sure that at least one of them must true.

"After much deliberation, I think he\'s probably knitted it all into a square of soft downy fabric, which he\'s then going to incorporate into the homemade patchwork quilt he\'s making for Louis Tomlinson\'s first born. Crafty, personal and heartfelt."

"Ashton\'s probably cut it off for \'The Girl Who Cried Wolf\' video. The concept? A Halloween-themed vid which sees Ash transform from SmAsh to some wolf-like creature at the stroke of midnight. Obviously he\'s achieving this by chopping off his once-long locks, sending \'em off to a lab and having some scientist guy create a wolf costume from his genetically-modified mane.

"In further news Luke will play a penguin/pumpkin hybrid, Michael\'s gonna be playing an evil Pikachu and Calum\'s will take on the role of a zombie bride."

"I think he\'s probably donated it to Selena Gomez to keep her head warm as she\'s probably going to be a bit bald after she chops off her hair and gifts it to charity."

"I\'m fairly confident (let\'s say a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10) that Ashton has used the hair to stuff several decorative throw pillows, which he will sell on Etsy under the alias \'Smashton Smirwin\'.

"If these are a success he plans to release a whole range of hair stuffed products. He\'s calculated it will take him 3.2 years to grow enough hair to fill one duvet cover."

"You know that facial hair Luke\'s grown lately? Well I heard that it\'s actually quite a sad tale, the long and short of which involves Ashton shearing his face and donating the trimmings to Luke to use as a prosthetic beard because he is actually incapable of growing one using his own facial follicles.

"Please don\'t ever ask Luke about it though. It\'s a very emotionally turbulent issue that haunts him to this day and may cause him to break down in tears."

"Half has been donated to science and the other half has actually been gifted to weave RJ the tour dog a miniature Ashton wig to wear when he makes his NYFW debut on the FROW later this week. He\'s quite keen to upstage Kylie Jenner you see, and a pair of mini doggy grills just weren\'t going to cut it."

So there you go. We\'re sure you\'ll agree that those all seem very likely, but if you\'ve got a theory about the real reason then drop us a comment in the box below or a tweet to @Sugarscape.

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