Did Zayn just mark the anniversary of his SPLIT from Perrie Edwards?

For anyone who still harboured hopes that Zayn Malik and Perrie Edwards might one day reconcile and go through with the wedding they had intended, that hope recently died under a tattoo needle.

A year to the day of the popstar couple's shocking split, a photo of Zayn has emerged which indicates that the former 1D member has has chosen to literally erase Perrie from his life.

Having devoted much of his upper arm to a tat of the Little Mix star back in 2013, Zayn obviously decided that it was time to give it the heave-ho as his relationship with Gigi Hadid goes up a gear.

In one fairly big relationship milestone, Gigi recently handed the keys of her LA pad over to Zayn, and it looks like Zayn de-Perried himself in the process.

Eagle-eyes fans of the star's current girlfriend, Gigi Hadid, noticed the cover-up when the model shared a snap of the Bradford-native preparing dinner last night.

The Pillowtalk singer has gradually increased his collection of tattoos since hitting the big-time in 2011, but the tat of a cartoon Perrie – which he had done with Louis in the Tattooed Heart Studio in Maryland three years ago – definitely took centre-stage on his bicep.

And now, it's no more.

And with Gigi and Zayn's relationship appearing to go through some high-profile ups and down since they began dating earlier this year, die-hard Zerrie fans held out hope that not all was lost between Zayn and the Black Magic singer.

But it looks like the tat needle has spoken…