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Olivia Wilde Causes Internet Chaos After Calling A$AP Rocky 'Hotter than Ever'

By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | February 14, 2023 |

By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | February 14, 2023 |


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Happy Valentine’s Day! As many of our longtime readers know, it’s also the birthday of my twin children. I’ve reposted the story of their miracle birth every year for the last decade. I’m not going to this year. I’ll do it again on their 15th birthday. And their 20th. They’re doing well, and so is my son, and I’m trying to let go of the scores of superstitions (like reposting that article every year) that I too often use to provide myself with an illusion of control, particularly over the health of my family. Wearing the same shirt to all medical appointments or walking the exact same route every morning has nothing to do with the well-being of my children. Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, etc., etc. (And yes, I understand that I’m hedging my bets by linking to it. I’m working on it!)

But this is not about that. This is about Olivia Wilde, and how she drew the ire of the Internet for a cringey post to Instagram about A$AP Rocky. For those who do not know, A$AP Rocky is a rapper and the romantic partner of Rihanna for the last two years. He and Rihanna have one child together and, as we learned during the Super Bowl, another on the way. For some reason, Olivia Wilde — who is no longer dating either Harry Styles or Jason Sudeikis but is giving off some real divorced mom energy — turned her attention not to the Super Bowl halftime show performer but to her boyfriend, who was filming Rihanna’s performance.

“If I thought he was hot before, this really put me over the edge,” Wilde posted in a since-deleted Instagram story. The Internet — with all the nuance of a brick to the orbital socket — basically accused Wilde of being a homewrecker because the Internet has no chill. Someone even resurrected this old tweet.

But that’s not what Olivia Wilde meant! Wilde has since clarified what she meant by A$AP’s hotness in that moment.

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That seemed fairly obvious from the context of the first photo (there was nothing otherwise particularly hot about a guy holding his phone up in the air). Also, not that it matters, but if Olivia Wilde were using Instagram to hit on A$AP Rocky, I’m not sure Rihanna would give a damn. She’s Rihanna — performer during the second most watched Super Bowl halftime show ever — and Olivia Wilde is merely Olivia Wilde.

Also, what A$AP Rocky did was a nice gesture, but both Rihanna and Wilde should be able to expect more from their romantic partners than holding a phone in the air.