{"id":895902,"date":"2026-03-31T08:22:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/harry-styles-addresses-queerbaiting-allegations-while-kissing-ben-marshall-during-snl-monologue-now-thats-queerbaiting\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:22:31","slug":"harry-styles-addresses-queerbaiting-allegations-while-kissing-ben-marshall-during-snl-monologue-now-thats-queerbaiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/harry-styles-addresses-queerbaiting-allegations-while-kissing-ben-marshall-during-snl-monologue-now-thats-queerbaiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles Addresses Queerbaiting Allegations While Kissing Ben Marshall During \u2018SNL\u2019 Monologue: \u201cNow That\u2019s Queerbaiting!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/harry-styles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_harry-styles\" data-tag=\"harry-styles\">Harry Styles<\/a> is aware of the discourse around him.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn his second time pulling double duty as both musical guest and host (though the Grammy winner has been a musical guest a number of times before as both solo artist and band member for One Direction), the musician addressed his queerbaiting allegations with a tongue-in-cheek \u2014 rather, tongue-in-Ben-Marshall\u2019s-cheek \u2014 joke.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cBack then,\u201d Styles began, addressing his career pre-hiatus, \u201cpeople seemed to pay a lot of attention to the clothes I was wearing and some people accused me of something called \u2018queerbaiting.\u2019 But did it ever occur to you: You don\u2019t know everything about me, Dad!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNoting his time away from the studio, the \u201cFine Line\u201d singer said he was \u201ctremendously boring\u201d and that \u201cpeople pretend to find that [his hobbies] interesting\u201d because he\u2019s Harry Styles.<\/p>\n<div data-pmc-adm-ad-id=\"1234771711\">\n<h3>\n\t\t\tWatch on Deadline\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s better than the alternative,\u201d he quipped, as the screen flashed a paparazzi image of Prince Andrew, who was recently arrested for his connections to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  <\/p>\n<p>\n\tHowever, the \u201cAperture\u201d songwriter said he was \u201chappy\u201d to be back at work with his new album, called <em>Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWhat\u2019s better than kissing all the time? Which I don\u2019t actually do \u2014 I don\u2019t kiss all the time,\u201d he said, as repertory player Chloe Fineman appeared on the Studio 8H stage and left in dismay.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cSometimes, kissing can be great,\u201d Styles continued, \u201cyou know, if you\u2019re really good at it, and you\u2019re a good person,\u201d as Sarah Sherman rolled her eyes and stormed off.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cOr if you have a tight little bum,\u201d the multi-hyphenate posited, as Marshall showed up. \u201cC\u2019mon, Ben, everyone knows there\u2019s nothing little about that thang. You\u2019re holding a damn wagon back there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWhatever, come here,\u201d Styles relented, as he leaned in for a peck with Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cNow that\u2019s queerbaiting,\u201d he concluded with a wink.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWatch the opener above.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/03\/harry-styles-snl-monologue-ben-marshall-1236754181\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music Harry Styles is aware of the discourse around him. In his second time pulling double duty as both musical guest and host (though the Grammy winner has been a musical guest a number of times before as both solo artist and band member for One Direction), the musician addressed his queerbaiting allegations with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":895903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[131522],"class_list":{"0":"post-895902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-news","8":"tag-podcast-music"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}