{"id":435438,"date":"2026-05-19T18:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/435438\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T18:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:57:10","slug":"bruce-springsteen-and-chris-christie-are-friends-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/435438\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen and Chris Christie Are Friends, Actually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/56e7786f0ae4ffec9c8188f66579ff78cd-vulture-split.rsquare.w330.jpg\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n                  Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmpco22b1000i0iikpgyioo2r@published\" data-word-count=\"177\">You probably saw that <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mikeryan\/status\/2055109673540272464\" rel=\"nofollow\">video<\/a> of Bruce Springsteen appearing to ignore Chris Christie at a recent concert, with the former governor dejected that the Boss didn\u2019t give him a high five while doing some \u201cTenth Avenue Freeze-Out\u201d crowdwork. An entire news cycle followed about the alleged snub, and it\u2019s now become enough of a \u201cthing\u201d that Springsteen\u2019s manager, Jon Landau, gave a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bruce-springsteen-chris-christie-rift-1235564726\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">comment<\/a> to Rolling Stone about it. The short version: These two gentlemen are good friends despite their respective political history. But to enhance your reading experience, visualize Landau as Jeremy Strong and his tinted frames in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/springsteen-deliver-me-from-nowhere-offers-2-sides-of-bruce.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deliver Me From Nowhere<\/a>. \u201cCurrent stories claiming a break in the friendship between Bruce and Chris Christie are absurd,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve all been friends for years, Chris was attending his 180th show, standing at the side of the stage as our guest.\u00a0And we hope to see him at our next 180 shows, as our guest. Period.\u201d Christie even posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYdfbrfF3qq\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">photo<\/a> of the duo embracing after the concert, proving that being from New Jersey is thicker than water.<\/p>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images You probably saw that video of Bruce Springsteen appearing to ignore Chris Christie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2375,430,222103,156,157,222850,111,139,69,135],"class_list":["post-435438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bruce-springsteen","tag-celebrities","tag-chris-christie","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-jersey-relations","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435438","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=435438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}