Harry Styles Addresses Queerbaiting Allegations In 'Saturday Night Live' Monologue, Kisses Ben Marshall
Harry Styles used his Saturday Night Live monologue to set the record straight!
The 32-year-old singer and actor kicked off his hosting gig on Saturday night (March 14) with his opening monologue, where he talked about his time away from the spotlight between albums and addressing the queerbaiting allegations against him.
Harry also joked about how he came up with his latest album title, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.
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“I finished my last tour in 2023, and after that I took a bunch of time off,” Harry said. “I realized I spent half of my life in music, touring, creating albums and making songs about fruit, but people think are about sex. I just really like fruit guys. I like sex too.”
“You know, when you’re on holiday, it’s like five in the afternoon, you’re all covered in sand. You and your partner are all sweaty and hot, and you stumble back to the room and you just wanna, mm papaya,” he continued.
He then went on to reference the queerbaiting allegations.
“Back then, people seem to pay a lot of attention to the clothes I was wearing, and some people accused me of something called queerbaiting,” he said. “Did it ever occur to you that, maybe you don’t know everything about me dad?! I ran it past him, he was fine with it.”
Later, Harry also addressed his new album’s title and how he doesn’t really like kissing that much.
“What’s better than kissing all the time?” he poised, followed by cast member Chloe Fineman joining him on stage briefly. She left defeated after he added, “Which I don’t actually do. I don’t want to kiss all the time.”
He then said, “Sometimes kissing can be great,” as Sarah Sherman joined him. She left when he said, “If you’re really good at it, and you’re a good person.”
However, the best moment came when Harry said, “Or if you have a tight little bum,” as Ben Marshall came on stage next.
Harry questioned why he came out and Ben said he has a tight bum, but the singer noted, “Come on Ben, everyone knows there’s nothing little about that thing. You’re holding a damn wagon back there.”
He then said, “Whatever, come here,” turned to Ben, grabbed his face and they shared a small kiss!
Harry turned to another camera and added, “Now that’s queerbaiting,” and winked.
Check out Harry Styles‘ full SNL monologue right here!