{"id":235592,"date":"2026-04-20T13:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/josh-hutcherson-clarifies-what-he-meant-by-his-perceived-taylor-swift-shade-addresses-backlash-from-swifties\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:08:07","slug":"josh-hutcherson-clarifies-what-he-meant-by-his-perceived-taylor-swift-shade-addresses-backlash-from-swifties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/josh-hutcherson-clarifies-what-he-meant-by-his-perceived-taylor-swift-shade-addresses-backlash-from-swifties\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hutcherson Clarifies What He Meant By His Perceived Taylor Swift Shade, Addresses Backlash From Swifties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Josh Hutcherson<\/strong> is clarifying his quote about <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/09\/josh-hutcherson-called-out-by-taylor-swift-fans-for-throwing-shade-at-her-despite-attending-eras-tour-as-vip-guest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 2025 interview<\/a>, his<em> I Love LA<\/em> co-star <strong>Jordan Firstman<\/strong> asked him, \u201cAre you a Swiftie?\u201d He replied, \u201cI\u2019m not a Swiftie. Very much not. No shade, all respect, but definitely not\u2026 a little bit of shade.\u201d At the time, <strong>Swifties<\/strong> noted that <strong>Josh <\/strong>actually went to the <em>Eras<\/em> tour and sat in the VIP section. This caused some backlash.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <strong>Josh<\/strong> is explaining.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2197756\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a new interview published on Monday (April 20), he told UK\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq-magazine.co.uk\/article\/josh-hutcherson-is-liking-what-he-sees-in-the-mirror\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.gq-magazine.co.uk\/article\/josh-hutcherson-is-liking-what-he-sees-in-the-mirror&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>GQ<\/em><\/a>, \u201cI got some heat because I did a photo shoot with Jordan, and Jordan asked me something about being a [<strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong> fan], and I was like, \u2018Oh no, I\u2019m definitely not a Swiftie.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He clarified he \u201cmeant it as neither judgement nor critique.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of a sudden it garnered this, \u2018F-ck him! He\u2019s a monster! Destroy him! He\u2019s short! He hates her because he\u2019s short!\u2019 It\u2019s just like, whoa! I think she\u2019s great. Her music is not my kind of music. That is why I don\u2019t want to be online,\u201d he added<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t need that energy. It\u2019s counterintuitive to my job, because if people know you more, you can\u2019t disappear into characters. They see you as, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s Josh.\u2019 You know what I mean? So, if you\u2019re a f-king meme, people know you for the meme,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/04\/20\/josh-hutcherson-clarifies-what-he-meant-by-his-perceived-taylor-swift-shade-addresses-backlash-from-swifties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Hutcherson is clarifying his quote about Taylor Swift. In an December 2025 interview, his I Love LA co-star Jordan Firstman asked him, \u201cAre you a Swiftie?\u201d He replied, \u201cI\u2019m not a Swiftie. Very much not. No shade, all respect, but definitely not\u2026 a little bit of shade.\u201d At the time, Swifties noted that Josh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-235592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}