A SINGLE dad from Little Lever has caused a stir after putting up his Christmas tree – naked.

Shaun Welsby, aged 41, snapped himself in the buff in front of his tree and uploaded it to Facebook.

He explained: "I had seen some guys advertising Christmas trees naked and thought I could do a better job than them.

"So I was messing around with my selfie stick when I was putting my tree up and thought I would post the results online.

"I thought it would cheer the ladies up on Facebook before Christmas.

"It seems to have worked because plenty of people have been commenting on it."

Mr Welsby, who runs his own home maintenance firm, jokingly said that he would go an put up other people's Christmas trees.

The father-of-two said he was surprised to have had a number of takers.

He said: "The response has been really good, I have had a lot of comments off the back of it.

"Everything that people have said to me has been really positive, there haven't been any negative comments.

"I only said about putting other people's trees as a joke, I didn't think that anyone would take it seriously, but a few people have asked me to go and do theirs, one woman even said she had four trees!

"I don't think I would have enough time to take up all the offers that have been coming in.

"I have had people contacting me from all over the world, I thought it would get a good reception but I was not expecting it to go viral."