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Sydney Sweeney blames ‘articles’ for offensive jeans ad ‘perception’
Sydney Sweeney was asked about that American Eagle ‘good genes’ ad again, and she avoided taking any responsibility for it.
Sweeney drew immense backlash for the ad earlier this year since the ad featured a wordplay on ‘good jeans’ and ‘good genes.’ Netizens thought it was racist and glorified having blue eyes and being white, others thought it catered to the male gaze and was overly sexual.
The Euphoria star didn’t address the backlash at the time, and she’s dodging questions about it in the present.
In a new interview with The Guardian to promote her new film Christy, she argued that she has no control over how people interpret her actions.
“I think what’s interesting is I’m always myself. I’m always just me. But it’s what other people put on me that’s uncontrollable,” she said.
“Like you’re going to write this article… Then people will read it and have their own perception. So I try and be as much of me as possible, but it’s always through other people’s lenses,” the Echo Valley star added.
In a previous interview with GQ, she noted that she wasn’t aware of the backlash over the ad since she was filming the new season of Euphoria at the time.
“It was surreal… it’s not that I didn’t have that feeling, but I wasn’t thinking of it like that. Or like, of any of it. I kind of just put my phone away,” she told the magazine.
“I was filming every day. I’m filming Euphoria, so I’m working 16-hour days and I don’t really bring my phone on set, so I work and then I go home and I go to sleep. So I didn’t really see a lot of it,” she added.
Sydney’s new film Christy follows the personal and professional life of boxer Christy Martin. The movie has joined the top 12 worst ever openings for a film showing on more than 2000 screens, per Box Office Mojo. The film has made a dismal $1.3 million over the weekend.
Harry Styles and Zoe Kravitz’s romance continues to heat up as the couple spent Christmas Day together at Styles’ family home in Cheshire.
The festive celebration came just weeks after the pair sparked engagement speculation.
The pair was reportedly seen on Boxing Day at a roadside service station on their way back to Style’s Hampstead property.
Dressed casually, the two kept a low profile.
A source told The Mirror, “They…could have been any young couple travelling back from seeing family.”
The appearance came just a few days after the couple’s sighting sent fans into frenzy.
Kravitz could be seen wearing a chunky gold band on her ring finger as she strolled with the former One Direction member through Rome.
Styles and Kravitz were first linked in August 2025.
The couple have been making headlines since then.
They have travelled together across Europe and the U.S., from Rome and Tuscany to London and New York, where Kravitz introduced Style to her family.
On the professional front Kravitz is soon to get busy as work on a new film project will begin in the UK.
Source to The Sun revealed that she will be staying with Style while filming.
Dua Lipa got into the Christmas spirit with her fiancé, Callum Turner, in a new post shared with fans on Instagram.
The Albanian pop star is spending the festive period with her husband-to-be.
It comes after Dua dropped jaw-dropping pictures showing off her fit physique in a skin-baring two-piece after concluding the Latin America leg of her Radical Optimism tour in Mexico City last week.
In the new snaps, the singer could be seen cosying up to the actor as he kissed her on the cheek.
In another photo, the pair flashed big smiles as Dua lay on Callum while he sat on the sofa.
It appeared to be a close-knit family affair, with Dua sharing snaps of her parents, Anesa and Dukagjin as well as her younger siblings Rina and Gjin.
Callum’s mother, Rosemary was also included in the festivities.
Despite her fortunes, Dua and her family played the lottery and could be seen with scratch cards.
Alongside the snaps, Dua penned: ‘It’s all about the Love… and absolutely smashing the cooking this year (all the stars aligned for me after not being in a kitchen for 6 months!!) HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!! SENDING YOU ALL SO MUCH LOVE!!!!!’
Fans were in awe of Dua’s cooking as they flooded her with compliments in the replies.
Kim Kardashian looked pretty as she revealed that she had her ears pierced at a famous accessory store during a trio to Hawaii.
It comes after the 45-year-old SKIMS founder raised eyebrows over the absence of her eldest daughter, North West, from photos of her Christmas Eve party.
In a recent Christmas Eve vlog shared with fans on Friday via TikTok, Kim revealed that she had the piercings done at Claire’s.
‘Hey guys, so I just want you to know that I recently got my ears pierced at Claire’s in Hawaii. And I have these tiny little earrings in,’ Kardashian explained to the camera.
‘All I like to wear is my Claire’s earrings,’ she continued while taking them out. ‘Because for the longest time, I didn’t have my ears pierced.’
The TV personality then added, ‘Every time I put in an earring, I would like… have to re-pierce it. So, I thought that I would make life easy and just get them done again.
‘As much as I love my Claire’s earrings, every once in a while, a girl’s gotta step it up and put on some Lorraine Schwartz jewelry.’
The reality star later paired the earrings as well as shimmering silver bracelets with a vintage Mugler ensemble.
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