Colm O'Regan: Harry Styles should come to Cork to see what real spitting is

I remember being a teenage boy, spitting was a skill to be honed.

Harry Styles, from left, Gemma Chan, Chris Pine and director Olivia Wilde pose for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Don't Worry Darling' during the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

There are times when the doings of the famous wash over you. And then are times when rumours of their doings hit you square in the face. Or land in your lap.

Previously, if you had asked me to comment on actress Florence Pugh’s supposed frostiness to director Olivia Wilde during screenings of the film Don’t Worry Darling, a frostiness that was alleged to have been due to the fact that Olivia Wilde and co-lead Harry Styles were in a relationship and that that relationship may have been, shall-we-say partially ‘in parallel with’ Wilde’s previous ‘strong line’ with Florence Pugh’s ex-boyfriend Zach Braff’s friend, Jason Sudeikis, DEEP BREATH, then I would have said ‘I’m not sure who any of those people are.’