Making headlines for extra than simply the music. Matty Healy has been elevating eyebrows for years as The 1975 continues to search out success.
Months earlier than Healy was linked to Taylor Swift following her cut up from Joe Alwyn, the English rocker made waves for kissing followers on stage at varied reveals. He ditched the custom throughout a January 2023 present — as a result of Swift was there to shock followers with a efficiency of “Anti-Hero.”
“I’m not kissing anybody in front of Taylor Swift, have some respect. In front of the queen, it’s not happening,” Healy instructed the gang.
One month later, he was below hearth for a podcast he recorded with hosts Adam Friedland and Nick Mullen. During the episode, the three males mocked Ice Spice and Healy laughed as Friedland and Mullen mimicked Chinese and Hawaiian accents. The “Robbers” singer additionally recalled an NSFW story about masturbating to brutalize girls.
Healy later apologized to Ice Spice on stage, saying partly: “I don’t want Ice Spice to think I’m a d—k. I love you, Ice Spice. I’m so sorry.”
While he didn’t straight handle different controversial feedback from the February 2023 podcast, he instructed the gang he was “embarrassed,” in accordance with Rolling Stone.
“The truth is, I see a sign that says like, ‘Matty, I hope you’re OK.’ I feel a bit bad, to be honest, because I feel like I’ve been a bit irresponsible,” he mentioned in April 2023. “It’s very well for me to say, I don’t understand how famous I am. I don’t like being famous. But reality is reality. And I think that I’ve said some things or kind of, I make a joke out of everything. That’s my thing. And I can take it too far sometimes in front of too many people. And I feel a bit embarrassed. So that’s the truth.”
An insider has since confirmed to Us Weekly that Healy and Swift had reconnected after a “brief” fling “years ago” as they “run in the same circle of friends.”
“They’re looking to give things a second chance,” the supply mentioned in May 2023, including that the Grammy winner “really likes” Healy and is “happy spending time with him.”
A second supply added that the duo “have been hanging out and are having fun together” as “they both respect and admire each other’s talent. They have a lot of mutual friends, including Jack Antonoff.”
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