{"id":2383524,"date":"2026-04-21T22:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2383524"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:49:20","slug":"josh-hutcherson-says-taylor-swift-fans-dragged-him-so-bad-he-didnt-want-to-be-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/josh-hutcherson-says-taylor-swift-fans-dragged-him-so-bad-he-didnt-want-to-be-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hutcherson Says Taylor Swift Fans Dragged Him So Bad He Didn\u2019t Want To Be Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Actor Josh Hutcherson has two very good reasons for why he doesn\u2019t spend much time online: work and angry <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entertainment\/topic\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a> fans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI got some heat because I did a photo shoot with [my \u2018I Love LA\u2019 costar Jordan Firstman in December], and Jordan asked me something about being a [Taylor Swift fan], and I was like, \u2018Oh no, I\u2019m definitely not a Swiftie,\u2019\u201d he said in an interview with <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gq-magazine.co.uk\/article\/josh-hutcherson-is-liking-what-he-sees-in-the-mirror\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"British GQ\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69e7dab5e4b0fa6ffe8f9c40\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.gq-magazine.co.uk\/article\/josh-hutcherson-is-liking-what-he-sees-in-the-mirror\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">British GQ<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published on Monday. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAll of a sudden it garnered this, \u2018Fuck him! He\u2019s a monster! Destroy him! He\u2019s short! He hates her because he\u2019s short!\u2019\u201d Hutcherson, who is 5 feet, 5 inches, said about the comments he received from upset Swifties. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u201cHunger Games\u201d star said the harsh backlash made him want to stay off the internet. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s just like, whoa! I think she\u2019s great. Her music is not my kind of music,\u201d he added. \u201cThat is why I don\u2019t want to be online.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"cli cli-image js-no-inject\">\n<div class=\"img-sized\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/69e7ddc6140000d9e6ecabc2.jpeg?cache=Ccu5LknkQo&amp;ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&amp;format=webp 1x, https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/69e7ddc6140000d9e6ecabc2.jpeg?cache=Ccu5LknkQo&amp;ops=scalefit_1440&amp;format=webp 2x\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-sized__img landscape\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" alt=\"Josh Hutcherson and Taylor Swift.\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/69e7ddc6140000d9e6ecabc2.jpeg?cache=Ccu5LknkQo&amp;ops=scalefit_720_noupscale\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/69e7ddc6140000d9e6ecabc2.jpeg?cache=Ccu5LknkQo&amp;ops=scalefit_720_noupscale 1x, https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/69e7ddc6140000d9e6ecabc2.jpeg?cache=Ccu5LknkQo&amp;ops=scalefit_1440 2x\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"cli-image__source-wrapper\"><figcaption class=\"cli-image__caption caption-cli\">Josh Hutcherson and Taylor Swift.<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hutcherson, 33, initially made the comments about the pop star back in December during an interview with <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/i-d.co\/article\/jordan-firstman-josh-hutcherson-friendship-i-love-la\/\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"i-D magazine\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69e7dab5e4b0fa6ffe8f9c40\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/i-d.co\/article\/jordan-firstman-josh-hutcherson-friendship-i-love-la\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">i-D magazine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/josh-hutcherson-stays-offline-backlash-not-taylor-swift-fan-1236569866\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"multiple\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69e7dab5e4b0fa6ffe8f9c40\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/josh-hutcherson-stays-offline-backlash-not-taylor-swift-fan-1236569866\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\">multiple<\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/josh-hutcherson-responds-to-hate-from-taylor-swift-fans-11953875\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\" outlets.\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69e7dab5e4b0fa6ffe8f9c40\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/josh-hutcherson-responds-to-hate-from-taylor-swift-fans-11953875\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\"> outlets.<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m not a Swiftie. Very much not,\u201d Hutcherson said at the time. \u201cNo shade, all respect, but definitely not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA little tiny shade,\u201d Firstman quipped in response. \u201cShe can handle a little bit of shade.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It doesn\u2019t appear that Swift, who wrote and recorded two songs for 2012\u2019s \u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d movie soundtrack \u2013 \u201cSafe &amp; Sound\u201d and \u201cEyes Open\u201d \u2013 ever publicly addressed Hutcherson\u2019s remarks. celebrity.land has reached out to Swift\u2019s reps for comment. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elsewhere in the interview with British GQ, Hutcherson explained why he thinks frequent online usage can negatively affect his presence on the big screen. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s counterintuitive to my job, because if people know you more, you can\u2019t disappear into characters,\u201d he said. \u201cThey see you as, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s Josh.\u2019 You know what I mean? So, if you\u2019re a fucking meme, people know you for the meme.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"cli cli-related-articles js-cet-subunit\"\/><\/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.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Josh Hutcherson has two very good reasons for why he doesn\u2019t spend much time online: work and angry Taylor Swift fans. \u201cI got some heat because I did a photo shoot with [my \u2018I Love LA\u2019 costar Jordan Firstman in December], and Jordan asked me something about being a [Taylor Swift fan], and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2383525,"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":[25174],"tags":[355239,21928,309574,23084],"class_list":["post-2383524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-josh-hutcherson","tag-social-media","tag-swifties","tag-taylor-swift"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Josh-Hutcherson-Says-Taylor-Swift-Fans-Dragged-Him-So-Bad.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383524","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=2383524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383526,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383524\/revisions\/2383526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2383525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}