{"id":2268719,"date":"2026-02-05T22:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2268719"},"modified":"2026-02-05T22:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:39:16","slug":"finneas-oconnell-claps-back-at-old-white-men-who-criticized-billie-eilishs-grammys-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/finneas-oconnell-claps-back-at-old-white-men-who-criticized-billie-eilishs-grammys-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Finneas O\u2019Connell Claps Back at \u201cOld White Men\u201d Who Criticized Billie Eilish\u2019s Grammys Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3906552\/\">Finneas O\u2019Connell<\/a> is coming to his sister <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8483808\/\">Billie Eilish<\/a>\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n<p>The Grammy winner took to Threads on Wednesday to clap back at haters who criticized the \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt12024308\/\">Wildflower<\/a>\u201d singer\u2019s Grammys acceptance speech, which saw her slam Ice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing a lot of very powerful old white men outraged about what my 24 year old sister said during her acceptance speech,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7142452\/\">O\u2019Connell<\/a> wrote. \u201cWe can literally see your names in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm9813627\/\">Epstein<\/a> files.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After winning the award for song of the year for \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt12024308\/\">Wildflower<\/a>,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6183964\/\">Eilish<\/a> used her time on stage to speak out against the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0815323\/\">Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s intense and controversial immigration enforcement. She and O\u2019Connell also wore \u201cIce Out\u201d pins on their outfits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel so honored every time I get to be in this room,\u201d she said in part. \u201cAnd, as grateful as I feel, I honestly don\u2019t feel like I need to say anything, but that no&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finneas O\u2019Connell is coming to his sister Billie Eilish\u2019s defense. The Grammy winner took to Threads on Wednesday to clap back at haters who criticized the \u201cWildflower\u201d singer\u2019s Grammys acceptance speech, which saw her slam Ice. \u201cSeeing a lot of very powerful old white men outraged about what my 24 year old sister said during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2268720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2268719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Finneas-OConnell-Claps-Back-at-Old-White-Men-Who-Criticized.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268721,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268719\/revisions\/2268721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}