{"id":896162,"date":"2026-09-18T05:14:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896162\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T05:14:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:14:41","slug":"jack-antonoff-margaret-qualley-split-bleachers-singers-sly-dig-onstage-two-months-after-divorce-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896162\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Antonoff, Margaret Qualley split: Bleachers singer\u2019s sly dig onstage two months after divorce rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Antonoff appears to have broken his silence on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity\/margaret-qualley-and-jack-antonoff-split-separation-20260709-p60dty.html\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent split from actress<\/a> Margaret Qualley with a sly dig on stage at a concert.<\/p>\n<p>In footage captured at a Bleachers show in Los Angeles this week, a fan can be heard requestion Antonoff, 42, perform their 2017 hit Lets Get Married.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jack Antonoff reacts to a fan request at a Bleachers show.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7f6d2e796d5ae54746d474eca4402be61f9ffc2146c595c9be50261d74c3e42e.gif\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Jack Antonoff reacts to an awkward fan request at a Bleachers show.\u00a0TikTok\/@usatodayentertainment<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely not,\u201d Antonoff hit back with an awkward laugh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRead the news, brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The crowd erupted with laughter at the sly comment, and Antonoff refused to play the track even when the fan revealed it was their own wedding song.<\/p>\n<p>This seems to be the first time Antonoff has publicly addressed his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity\/margaret-qualley-split-jack-antonov-rumours-20260711-p60eik.html\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">split from Qualley<\/a>, 31, which made headlines in July.<\/p>\n<p>He also made it clear at his concert that Let\u2019s Get Married isn\u2019t about The Substance actress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love that song and I wrote it, like, 11 years ago,\u201d he told the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Based on that timeline, he would have written the track during his relationship with Girls actress Lena Dunham, whom he dated from 2012-2017.<\/p>\n<p>After splitting from Dunham, Antonoff dated model Carlotta Kohl, before starting a romance with Qualley in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Actress\/writer Lena Dunham and musician Jack Antonoff attend The Rape Foundation's annual brunch at Greenacres, The Private Estate of Ron Burkle on October 4, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3a086311a12c340df81833eab41361134ca21053.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Lena Dunham and musician Jack Antonoff dated for five years.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n<p>By 2023, they were married and Antonoff went on to feature his actress wife in the music videos for Bleachers songs Tiny Moves (2024) and You and Forever (2026).<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, their marriage wasn\u2019t to last.<\/p>\n<p>In July, news broke that the actress and musician had separated after three years of marriage, with a source telling People their romance was \u201crocky\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Qualley wiped most evidence of Antonoff from her Instagram and changed her handle from @isimostar, a reference to a Bleachers song, to @sarahmargaretqualley23 before news of their split was made public.<\/p>\n<p>Fans have speculated that the couple\u2019s 11-year age gap or Qualley\u2019s recent rise to Hollywood stardom may have been a contributing factor in their split.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/df5d687226ede833cb0d261525c695161ec6b635.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Margaret Qualley and Jack Antonoff at last year\u2019s Critics Choice Awards.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n<p>Some even claimed there may have been an affair, but Qualley shut those claims down fast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe narratives running in the press about Margaret and Jack are categorically untrue. There are no trust issues,\u201d Qualley\u2019s rep said in a statement provided to multiple US outlets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no infidelity or anything outside of respect and partnership in this relationship. They have deep love and care for one another. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are only two people in this marriage, and the sources who are talking to the press and commenting on their relationship are not people who know them. Please respect their privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Qualley, who is the daughter of actress Andie MacDowell, broke out in 2021 in the Netflix series Maid, then hit the big leagues with her work in The Substance with Demi Moore.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity\/exclusive-margaret-qualley-responds-to-criticism-over-latest-film-20260826-p60rji.html\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">starred alongside Australian heartthrob Jacob Elordi<\/a> in post-apocalyptic drama The Dog Stars.<\/p>\n<p>Antonoff has been making music for 25 years and has won 13 Grammys for his  writing, singing and producing for his own projects and with other big-name artists.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s famously collaborated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity\/jack-antonoff-taylor-swift-relationship-history-career-songs-explainer-20240418-p5plxi.html\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pop sensations including Taylor Swift<\/a>, Lorde, and Lana Del Rey, and was part of 2010s band fun. before he started Bleachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Antonoff appears to have broken his silence on his recent split from actress Margaret Qualley with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-896162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}