Harry Styles Addresses Queerbaiting Allegations While Kissing Ben Marshall During ‘SNL’ Monologue: “Now That’s Queerbaiting!”

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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 tongue-in-cheek — rather, tongue-in-Ben-Marshall’s-cheek — joke.

“Back then,” Styles began, addressing his career pre-hiatus, “people seemed to pay a lot of attention to the clothes I was wearing and some people accused me of something called ‘queerbaiting.’ But did it ever occur to you: You don’t know everything about me, Dad!”

Noting his time away from the studio, the Fine Line singer said he was “tremendously boring” and that “people pretend to find that [his hobbies] interesting” because he’s Harry Styles.

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