Morrissey has denounced Twitter in the past - most notably, when someone claiming to be him opened an account and started posting very Morrissey-an tweets in 2014.

Now, he has made a comment on the recently-opened Smiths Twitter account, with a statement on his semi-official site True-To-You.net distancing himself from the whole thing.

"A Smiths/Morrissey Google alerts/Twitter account has been opened by Warner UK," it read. "Morrissey would like to stress that this account has not been sanctioned by him and has no connection to him. Follow it at your peril."

Johnny Marr has not yet made a comment.

In other words, of course The Smiths aren't reforming. Tsk.