Zara Larsson calls out James Charles amid Tati Westbrook controversy YouTubeFamous Swedish singer Zara Larsson has called out under-fire YouTuber James Charles for \u201chitting up\u201d her boyfriend, despite knowing that he is heterosexual. Larsson\u2019s criticism occurs after controversy surrounding Charles and ex-friend Tati Westbrook. Since Charles advertised a rival vitamin brand to Westbrook\u2019s on his Instagram story, the two have been at odds. The dispute prompted Westbrook to make a video effectively ending their friendship, as well as calling Charles out for trying \u201cto trick a straight man into thinking he\u2019s gay, yet again\u201d. This has, understandably, led to considerable community condemnation towards Charles and now, Larsson has chipped in. On May 11, after Charles posted an apology video in response to him losing upwards of 1 million YouTube subscribers in a 24 hour period, Larsson responded to a clip from Westbrook\u2019s original video, in which she calls Charles out for trying to manipulate heterosexual men into thinking they\u2019re homosexual. \u201cIt\u2019s really disgusting,\u201d says Westbrook in the clip, \u201cto manipulate someone\u2019s sexuality, especially when they are still emerging into adulthood\u2026 You are using your fame, your power, your money to play with people\u2019s emotions.\u201d In response, Larsson tweeted that she was \u201ccackling cause he [Charles] hit up my boyfriend in the dms several times knowing damn well he\u2019s straight\u201d. I’m cackling cause he hit up my boyfriend in the dms several times knowing damn well he’s straight https:\/\/t.co\/yzCcdw9eWt \u2014 Zara Larsson (@zaralarsson) May 11, 2019 The tweet has gained considerable attention given the high-profile nature of the controversy surrounding Charles, amassing over 450,000 likes at the time of writing. Larsson has been dating British model Brian Whittaker since 2017. The singer has since clarified her comments, stating that she was considering deleting her original response. \u201cI feel like deleting this cause I checked and it wasn\u2019t several times, only one dm and some comments under pictures,\u201d she explained. I feel like deleting this cause I checked and it wasn’t several times, only one dm and some comments under pictures https:\/\/t.co\/aRLylIDlZ5 \u2014 Zara Larsson (@zaralarsson) May 11, 2019 Twitter users did not allow this to vindicate Charles though, with one arguing that \u201cit\u2019s the same principle\u201d, while another went for \u201cstill happened and he knew he was straight. but thank you for clarifying queen\u201d. Charles is, understandably, facing significant backlash over his alleged behaviour, with community members resilient not to accept his apologies. His YouTube video from May 10, entitled \u2018tati\u2019, currently sits at over 1.5 million dislikes, making it \u2013 at the time of writing \u2013 one of the top 20 most disliked videos on the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Zara Larsson calls out James Charles amid Tati Westbrook controversy YouTubeFamous Swedish singer Zara Larsson has called out under-fire YouTuber James Charles for \u201chitting up\u201d her boyfriend, despite knowing that he is heterosexual. Larsson\u2019s criticism occurs after controversy surrounding Charles and ex-friend Tati Westbrook. Since Charles advertised a rival vitamin brand to Westbrook\u2019s on his […]<\/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-66101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66101","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=66101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}