{"id":389015,"date":"2026-04-20T17:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389015\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:05:08","slug":"josh-hutcherson-on-taylor-swift-comment-backlash-staying-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389015\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hutcherson on Taylor Swift Comment Backlash, Staying Offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t blame\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/josh_hutcherson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Josh Hutcherson<\/a>\u00a0for his honesty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While he stands by the admission he made to I Love LA costar Jordan Firstman, he wants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/taylor_swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s fans to know\u00a0he didn\u2019t mean anything by it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got some heat because I did a photo shoot with Jordan, and Jordan asked me something about being a [Taylor Swift fan], and I was like, \u2018Oh no, I\u2019m definitely not a Swiftie,\u2019\u201d Josh recounted to GQ in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq-magazine.co.uk\/article\/josh-hutcherson-is-liking-what-he-sees-in-the-mirror\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">interview published April 20<\/a>. \u201cAll of a sudden, it garnered this, \u2018F&#8211;k him! He\u2019s a monster! Destroy him! He\u2019s short! He hates her because he\u2019s short!\u2019&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because, no, the Hunger Games alum doesn\u2019t hate Taylor because she\u2019s taller than he is. In fact, he doesn\u2019t hate her at all\u2014he just prefers other artists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just like, whoa! I think she\u2019s great,\u201d he said. \u201cHer music is not my kind of music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for\u00a0the swift\u00a0backlash his innocuous comment received, Josh added, \u201cThat is why I don\u2019t want to be online.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t blame\u00a0Josh Hutcherson\u00a0for his honesty.\u00a0 While he stands by the admission he made to I Love LA costar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-389015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}