If you happen to grew up obsessive about the kid stars of Disney Channel, you may recall Selena Gomez and Nick Jonas’s whirlwind relationship, which started in 2008.
Their on-again, off-again romance lasted a few years earlier than they cut up for good in 2010, although the pair remained tremendous amicable.
5 years on from their breakup, Selena in all probability wasn’t anticipating to be questioned about Nick’s sexuality throughout a stay TV interview — an trade that lately resurfaced on-line.
The awkward second appeared throughout a 2015 look Selena made on Watch What Occurs Reside with Andy Cohen, throughout which she took half in one of many present’s fashionable segments, Plead the Fifth.
Friends can select to keep away from answering only one out of three juicy questions posed by host Andy on the present. For a little bit of context, Selena was additionally requested a couple of then-popular rumor that her BFF Taylor Swift’s hit tune “Unhealthy Blood” was about Katy Perry, and about hypothesis that her friendship with Taylor had pushed “a wedge” between her and Demi Lovato.
Selena selected to “plead the fifth” with the primary query to keep away from throwing Taylor below the bus, and swiftly denied any dangerous blood between herself and Demi.
However Andy’s third query about her ex Nick Jonas’s sexuality actually appeared to throw her off guard.
Andy requested “how homosexual” Nick was, provided that the younger actor had performed homosexual roles in Scream Queens and Kingdom at the moment.
“Nick Jonas. The beautiful, ever-gorgeous by the day, Nick Jonas,” Andy started, to which Selena momentarily masked her face as she smiled.
“He has performed — lately — homosexual roles in Scream Queens and Kingdom. All homosexual males need this dude to be homosexual,” Andy went on.
“On a scale of 1 to 10 — 10 being as homosexual as me — how homosexual is Nick Jonas?” he requested Selena.
Selena regarded fairly baffled and replied, “I dated him… Like, zero,” earlier than turning her head away from Andy and guffawing.
Now, simply over 4 years later, the interview has resurfaced on-line — and it’s garnered widespread consideration.
To start with, a number of Instagram customers identified how inappropriate and “awkward” Andy’s query was, questioning why he felt it was “his place” to ask Selena about Nick’s sexuality.
“That questions so silly wtf,” one person wrote. “what kind of query is that ?!” one other stated.
“why tf?!” learn one fashionable remark with over 7,000 likes.
Others went on to name Andy out for seemingly making Selena “uncomfortable” by placing her “on the spot.”
“I hate when interviewers ask stuff like this so randomly, like what’s the purpose. Why put somebody on the spot like that for no motive. You possibly can see she’s uncomfortable answering,” one particular person wrote.
“Why would he ask HER that. Prefer it’s his place to ask or her place to say,” one other stated. “Horrible query. None of his enterprise,” another person agreed.
And followers wound up discussing how such previous questions from discuss present hosts “wouldn’t fly” on TV as we speak, calling the complete factor “awkward” and “uncomfortable” to observe.
“Yeah this wouldn’t fly now,” one particular person wrote. “Think about this query was requested any time after 2020,” one other stated.
