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And now the foursome are all close
pals, which they feel the need to
make very public with photos.
“New Y ork, I need you to get extra
loud for our future baby daddies,”
Fox told the screaming audience
when she and Kardashian intro-
duced Kelly’s performance, with
Barker accompanying him on
drums.- Their quotes in the British
GQ profile
We already told you about “I
am weed,” and we are sorry if you
had somehow missed that earlier
and now know about it. Another
gem from Kelly: “Even our first
kiss, she wouldn’t kiss me. We just
put our lips right in front of each
other and breathed each other’s
breath and then she just left.”
While these quotes have been
meme-fied into oblivion, clearly
Fox and Kelly were counting on
exactly that. On the pop culture
podcast “Who? Weekly,” co-hosts
Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber
discussed the article and the
“cringe” of it all. “As a couple,
there’s a t hirst there, there’s a
palpable thirst there — there’s an
almost desperation that is hard to
miss and is a little uncomfortable
and embarrassing. Because
sometimes when you see them,
you’re like, ‘These two want atten-
tion so badly,’ ” Finger said.
Weber said she reached out to
her friend Molly Lambert, the writ-
er of the GQ article, to ask what the
deal was — and Lambert confirmed
that Fox and Kelly are “super self-
aware” and “they know what
they’re doing.” Still, Weber said
Lambert “found their romance to
be authentic and very sweet.”
The co-hosts also speculated
that Fox and Kelly seem to be
embracing “rock star” antics be-
cause they’re fun, and one possible
reason it’s getting so much atten-
tion is that America is obsessed
with outrageous celebrity relation-
ships involving grown-ups, partic-
ularly parents. (Fox has three chil-
dren with Green; Kelly has a
daug hter from a previous relation-
ship.) “We love second acts,” Finger
said. “And we love adults who get
to be sexy. I think that’s freeing and
very aspirational to a lot of people.” - Their Instagram captions
about the British GQ profile
While we can ’t repeat what Kel-
ly said in his graphic caption, Fox’s
takeaway from the profile resem-
bled a PG-13 Mad Lib. She posted
the aforementioned gun photo on
Instagram and wrote that the sto-
ry told “the tale of two outcasts
and star crossed lovers caught in
the throes of a torrid, solar flare of
a romance” that featured every-
thing from “feverish obsession” to
“organic smoothies” and “the kind
of sex that would make Lucifer
clutch his rosary.”
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which they both used multiple
knife emoji. (To be edgy.)
This was all fine and maybe even
somewhat intriguing, given that
the pairing of a Hollywood bomb-
shell and an oddly handsome mu-
sician is a time-honored tradition;
in this case, it’s an actress giving off
Snow White-meets-Evil Queen en-
ergy and a singer with enough
spiky hair and self-conscious smol-
der to be cast as the villain rock star
in a Disney Channel movie. She’s
also one who makes jokes about
“daddy issues” on Instagram.
To their credit, they actually
seemed into each other: Kelly
ta lked about how Fox changed his
life and helped him with his recov-
ery from drug addiction, while Fox
said on an astrology podcast that
she and Kelly were “twin flames”
and “two halves of the same soul.”
This was also right in the middle of
a Megan Fox renaissance, when
audiences started realizing she
was more than the “shallow”
Queen Bee/popular girl roles in
which she was continuously cast,
and she spoke up about how being
sexualized by Hollywood at a
young age affected her career.
But something happened in
spring 2021 — maybe it’s because
we were a year into a pandemic,
maybe because they felt as if
people weren’t properly appreci-
ating their raunchy weirdness,
maybe their PR reps were just
bored. At the Billboard Music
Awards, Kelly dyed his tongue
black and made sure everyone on
the red carpet was extremely
aware of this when they gave the
cameras a lot of dead-eyed Blue
Steel and licked each other’s
tongues.- The VMAs incident/
altercation
Stars have been nearly naked
on the MTV Video Music Awards
red carpet for as long as we can
remember, and Fox decided to
bring back this tradition in Sep-
tember. Fox credited Kelly for the
look, telling “Entertainment To-
night”: “He was like, ‘You’re gon-
na be naked tonight.’ I was like,
‘Whatever you say, Daddy!’ ”
Okay! Even though they prob-
ably thought the dress would be
the scene-stealer, the story line
abruptly changed when Kelly got
in a bizarre and unexplained al-
tercation with mixed martial art-
ist/UFC fighter Conor McGregor.
They refused to talk about what
happened, and Kelly literally
pus hed away Variety’s micro-
phone when asked about it later. - Their shenanigans with
Kourtney Kardashian and
Travis Barker
The newly engaged Kourtney
Kardashian and Blink-182 drum-
mer Travis Barker have also taken
public displays of affection to a new
and unfortunate level this year.
ently Kelly’s introductory line to
Fox when they first met at a p arty
in Los Angeles several years ago.
“I just remember this tall, blond,
ghostly creature and I looked up
and I was like, ‘You smell like
weed,’ ” Fox explained in a recent
British GQ cover story about the
couple. “He looked down at me
and he was like, ‘I am weed.’ Then,
I swear to God, he disappeared
like a ninja in a smoke bomb.”
The profile, which went viral as
the quotes and photos were trans-
formed into memes, was the next
step in the remarkably choreo-
graphed media rollout of their re-
lationship. You have to give them
credit for their savviness — they
know exactly how to keep the spot-
light focused on them. Not because
people are necessarily interested,
but because it’s hard to look away
from a glamorous black-and-white
photo of a woman aiming a gun
directly at her boyfriend’s crotch.
“I just started feeling bad for
the media for the first time, and
it’s because of how they’re ped-
dling the Megan Fox-Machine
Gun Kelly relationship,” comedi-
an Chris Fleming said in a much-
circulated video, echoing other
observers who are baffled by the
couple’s sudden ubiquity. “ I could
be completely off the pulse of the
zeitgeist, but I very strongly think
that not a single person in this
nation is invested in this relation-
ship. And the way the media is
going about it, it feels very much
like a dad trying to throw a birth-
day party for a kid who he’s not
involved in the life of anymore, so
he just completely botches the
theme.”
But now that they have de-
manded we pay attention, allow us
to look back at the five most
crin ge-y moments from the pair
striving for the vibe of Angelina
Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton wear-
ing vials of each other’s blood, but
is instead reminiscent of an angsty
late-’90s middle school couple who
leave AIM away messages directed
at each other typed in gothic font.
- The Billboard Music
Awards tongue incident
News first broke about Fox, 35 ,
and Kelly, 31, early last year, when
they were photographed “hang-
ing out” after filming the movie
“Midnight in the Switchgrass” to-
gether. Fox’s ex-husband, “90210”
actor Brian Austin Green, con-
firmed around the same time that
he and Fox had been separated for
months. Fox then starred as the
dominating girlfriend in Kelly’s
video for his song “Bloody Valen-
tine,” waking up next to him in
bed and immediately slapping
pink tape over his mouth. That
summer, they made their rela-
tionship status of ficial by posting
mirror selfies to Instagram in
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see them, you’re like, ‘These two want attention so badly ,’ ” says podcast co-host Bobby Finger.