Ever since he maybe sort of came out as bi in the lyrics to a song, the Harry Styles Rumor Mill (TM) has been churning at an even higher output than usual.
But even before the cryptic coming out, one story that continued to stick is Styles’ connection to out BBC radio host Nick Grimshaw.
Now Grimshaw, 33, has addressed them head-on.
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Appearing on The Dan Wootton Interview podcast, Grimshaw was again asked if their friendship had ever been romantic.
“No, no. Not at all,” he said.
He continued: “It was an odd, odd thing to happen. It wasn’t very weird at the time, it’s weirder now.
“At the time, you’re just getting on with your life and you’re doing the radio and just hanging out and you’re like, whatever.
“But it was weirder when he came on to do the solo stuff and I started doing my Harry research, writing questions and stuff, and when I Googled him I was like, ‘This is actually a thing!'”
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The BBC Radio 1 host also had some thoughts about how this false narrative gained so much traction.
“I don’t know if it’s because we were both Northern and had quite a similar sense of humor and because he was down in London and away from northerners and friends and family and we all just ended up hanging out together and getting on,” he guessed.
“I think that people assumed that because I was gay and he wears like floral shirts that he must be gay, and they were like they must be going out with each other.
“But I don’t know, it was something we never actually discussed together.”
Grimshaw isn’t the first guy rumored to be linked to Styles. Last year, Style’s former One Direction bandmate Louis Tomlinson also publicly denied any romantic involvement:
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Donston
All we have is Harry singing a single lyric (that I don’t believe he even wrote) about getting high and sucking a dick. That hardly qualifies as even a sorta coming out. If it were a female no one would take any real notice to those lyrics or take them seriously. As far as we know he hasn’t dated a guy and has shown no real indication of having legit romantic feelings and/or sexual passion towards dudes. Plus, he’s still super young. So, there’s little point in speculating.
jjose712
The problem with Harry is that his female girlfriends were obvious PR relationships (not that he made a real effort to pass them as real), he made a lot of times comments that make people believe he likes guys (it’s not something fans invented) and he seems to like to play with this ambiguity.
While Louis always reacted very bad to gay rumours (rumours he started with the way he acted all the time) Harry is perfectly ok with them
Donston
I’m aware of the constant games these people play, whether it’s for press or molding public image. I just don’t bite. Unless a dude makes it clear he’s interested in guys, that he has passion, romantic feelings and whatever towards guys I tend not to take it seriously. I just don’t see the point of getting overly excited about someone who is not unabashedly romantically and sexually into dudes. If he gets there then I’ll take a lil peek. Then again, I’m just not intrigued by anything having to do with this dude.
Chrisk
Call me when he comes out. We should rename this to gossip girls or something. Lol
twohanded
Well I’d still give either a good seeing to, together or one after the other……….
DCguy
Don’t you love how people in the entertainment industry, even people who are out always fall back on the line of “Gee, I didn’t even know people were saying that”.
This is an obvious lie because there is nobody in the entertainment industry who doesn’t have a google alert tagged to mentions of their name. And if HE doesn’t have it, you can bet his publicist or his bosses have it.
So I didn’t think the story was anything…..until I heard that very obvious B.S. line of him not even hearing the rumor.
nitejonboy
Am I the only one who’d f__k this Grimshaw guy ? He’s hot.