{"id":53887,"date":"2025-01-28T18:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/logan-paul-defends-liam-payne-over-viral-podcast-comments-backlash-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T18:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:11:11","slug":"logan-paul-defends-liam-payne-over-viral-podcast-comments-backlash-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/logan-paul-defends-liam-payne-over-viral-podcast-comments-backlash-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Logan Paul defends Liam Payne over viral podcast comments backlash &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Logan Paul defends Liam Payne over viral podcast comments backlash YouTube: Impaulsive\/True GeordieYouTuber Logan Paul has defended former One Direction member Liam Payne, after he caused a huge stir online and received hate for comments he made while appearing on Logan\u2019s Impaulsive podcast. The Liam Payne Impaulsive episode became an almost immediate hit online, but for all the wrong reasons. For example, One Direction fans were calling Liam out for the way he spoke about former bandmates Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik. They even got \u2018Logan Paul is over\u2019 trending on social media, hitting out at the influencer for his involvement in the podcast. Now, the older Paul brother has spoken out about the podcast and the negative attention it attracted, defending Liam in the process. Speaking on the True Geordie podcast, Logan was asked about his thoughts on the podcast and whether he was \u201caware that this guy is making himself look like a bit of a douchebag.\u201d Logan said: \u201cNo, I wasn\u2019t aware. I didn\u2019t think anything of it \u2026 Sure, he said some outlandish sh*t. Sure, we were drinking on a podcast. My man was feeling himself, trying to stir the pot. I get it. I\u2019ve done the same sh*t. \u201cNo one\u2019s lived the life that that kid has lived. It\u2019s got to be f**king insane, dude \u2026 Truly, to be any one of the One Direction kids has got to throw you in a f**king loop. Getting that famous and rich that young can\u2019t be healthy.\u201d Timestamp 13:37 Logan went on to say that he\u2019s \u201csure they\u2019ve all got demons, except Harry Styles obviously, he\u2019s an angel.\u201d Liam himself hasn\u2019t spoken out much about the situation, though he did post a couple of tweets after the podcast, clarifying comments made about Zayn Malik. I was saying that there will always be things we disagree on but that I will always, always be on his side. That\u2019s family. Zayn is my brother and I will stand by him forever. \u2014 Liam (@LiamPayne) June 2, 2022 Logan and Liam seemed to get on very well during the podcast and there doesn\u2019t appear to be any bad blood between them since. That said, the memes are not dying down, and despite Logan believing some of the backlash may be unwarranted, that\u2019s unlikely to change any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logan Paul defends Liam Payne over viral podcast comments backlash YouTube: Impaulsive\/True GeordieYouTuber Logan Paul has defended former One Direction member Liam Payne, after he caused a huge stir online and received hate for comments he made while appearing on Logan\u2019s Impaulsive podcast. The Liam Payne Impaulsive episode became an almost immediate hit online, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}