TOP pop star JK has today expressed his delight at the safe return of a young Hampshire man missing for three weeks.

All efforts to track down Paul Harris from Fareham after he disappeared from his parents' home in the town failed.

But after hearing a plea by Jamiroquai's lead singer to contact his parents, 22-year-old Paul finally arrived back in Fareham in the small hours of Monday morning this week.

JK, who told Paul he had once done something similar himself and caused his mother a great deal of worry, urged the missing man to go home or let his parents know he was safe.

The music star and boyfriend of TV presen-ter Denise van Outen said: "I am delighted that Paul has returned home safely and I will be invit-ing him to a show where I hope to meet him again."

Paul, a student, disappeared when he left the home of his parents Bob and Irene to go to a job placement programme in Lincolnshire.

His frantic parents begged him to contact them after he failed to arrive at his placement. Finally they turned to the Daily Echo in desperation and their plea was followed up by JK, who Paul had once met, and BBC Radio One, which took up the story. Paul's father said his son heard the Radio One appeal and simply knocked on their door.

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