Celebrity

The 1975 frontman Matty Healy keeps kissing fans onstage

Nov 28 2022
Written by Charlie Duncan

A graphic of Matty Healy performing and him kissing a male fan onstage

Matty Healy kissed a male fan onstage (Getty/@ViralMaterialz)

The 1975’s Matty Healy keeps kissing fans onstage… and we’re not complaining about it.

At a pair of shows during the North American leg of the band’s ‘At Their Very Best Tour’, Healy has got into the habit of snogging audience members – including a male one.

In a post on Twitter, Healy can be seen holding a male fan onstage before giving him a (surprisingly tender) kiss.

The fan can be seen smiling from ear-to-ear, before lead singer Healy gives him another peck on the lips and delivers him into the hands of a security guard.

https://twitter.com/ViralMaterialz/status/1596798676264898560

The kiss happened during a performance of “Robbers” at the band’s San Diego show at the Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre on 26 November.

It followed a kiss with a female fan the previous night. This time the fan cleared up she had asked Healy to kiss her via a Snapchat message that she held up, after others speculated the kiss was non-consensual.

https://twitter.com/ViralMaterialz/status/1596539686675177477

On a real note I do want to state some facts before we get any farther, i had this on my phone because he mentioned at some point “I can only make out with you”. So I did this, he saw it and brought me up, HE ASKED before he kissed me!
Also I’m a grown age of 24 pic.twitter.com/d4eP7wNn2o

— Isabella 🖤 (@xsbella) November 26, 2022

Fans have responded to the clips with everything from disbelief to jealousy – and some have even joked the security guard who pulled the bashful looking concertgoer off stage was not having it.

Not dude blushing as security dragging him away— Dame Erotic City (@vivid_chastity) November 27, 2022

IDC IF YOUR HAPPY IT SHOULD OF HAPPEN TO ME!!!!! https://t.co/uoFLM8PHoj— Cubby (@Ccubby17) November 28, 2022

https://twitter.com/MiaTuQueLeche/status/1596903481105084416

Matty Healy previously came under fire for kissing a male fan onstage during a show in Dubai in August 2019.

He later said he felt “pretty irresponsible” for the action as both men could have been arrested under Dubai’s draconian anti-gay laws.

Healy explained he managed to get in contact with the fan on Instagram after the incident, confirming he was safe, and in a bar “having the best night of his life”.

In an interview with The Sunday Times, Healy explained that ahead of the show, the venue gave the band “a list of s**t that I couldn’t do and they said there could be no ‘gay propaganda’”.

The current show’s interlude has seen Healy in all sorts of ‘conceptual’ performances, including the singer having a nap, eating raw steak, doing pushups and – checks notes – fondling himself.