Gareth Gates strips naked for charity

Rex Features

Gareth Gates has posed naked for a charity photoshoot in a women's magazine.

The pop singer stripped off to raise funds for prostate and testicular cancer charity Everyman in this month's Cosmopolitan.

Gates's snap features him reclining in a theatre seat, casually covering his genitalia with his left hand. West Ham and England footballer Carlton Cole also appears in the centrefold spread.

Gates, who finished second in the first series of Pop Idol, became a father earlier this year. Last month, he ended his four-month run in West End musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.