{"id":347261,"date":"2026-03-15T09:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/347261\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T09:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:12:11","slug":"harry-styles-on-queerbaiting-kisses-ben-marshall-during-snl-monologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/347261\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles On Queerbaiting; Kisses Ben Marshall During SNL Monologue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHarry Styles<\/a> is aware of the discourse around him.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his second time pulling double duty as both musical guest and host (though the Grammy winner has been a musical guest a number of times before as both solo artist and band member for One Direction), the musician addressed his queerbaiting allegations with a tongue-in-cheek \u2014 rather, tongue-in-Ben-Marshall\u2019s-cheek \u2014 joke.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBack then,\u201d Styles began, addressing his career pre-hiatus, \u201cpeople seemed to pay a lot of attention to the clothes I was wearing and some people accused me of something called \u2018queerbaiting.\u2019 But did it ever occur to you: You don\u2019t know everything about me, Dad!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNoting his time away from the studio, the \u201cFine Line\u201d singer said he was \u201ctremendously boring\u201d and that \u201cpeople pretend to find that [his hobbies] interesting\u201d because he\u2019s Harry Styles.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s better than the alternative,\u201d he quipped, as the screen flashed a paparazzi image of Prince Andrew, who was recently arrested for his connections to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. <\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, the \u201cAperture\u201d songwriter said he was \u201chappy\u201d to be back at work with his new album, called Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat\u2019s better than kissing all the time? Which I don\u2019t actually do \u2014 I don\u2019t kiss all the time,\u201d he said, as repertory player Chloe Fineman appeared on the Studio 8H stage and left in dismay.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSometimes, kissing can be great,\u201d Styles continued, \u201cyou know, if you\u2019re really good at it, and you\u2019re a good person,\u201d as Sarah Sherman rolled her eyes and stormed off.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOr if you have a tight little bum,\u201d the multi-hyphenate posited, as Marshall showed up. \u201cC\u2019mon, Ben, everyone knows there\u2019s nothing little about that thang. You\u2019re holding a damn wagon back there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhatever, come here,\u201d Styles relented, as he leaned in for a peck with Marshall.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNow that\u2019s queerbaiting,\u201d he concluded with a wink.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the opener above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Styles is aware of the discourse around him. In his second time pulling double duty as both…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[126155,321,93,6437,61,60,15824],"class_list":["post-347261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ben-marshall","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-harry-styles","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-snl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}