By Nicholas Hautman
(MAINNEWS) – Olivia Wilde called A$AP Rocky “hot” on her Instagram Story Monday — and tagged the rapper’s pregnant girlfriend, Rihanna, before deleting the post mere hours later.
“If I thought he was hot before, this really put me over the edge,” the “Don’t Worry Darling” director wrote above a video of Rocky filming Rihanna during the “Diamonds” singer’s Super Bowl LVII halftime show Sunday.
Many fans found Wilde’s caption to be cringey and questioned why she would brazenly tag the couple, who have been dating since 2020.
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“She’s really living up to that last name [of] hers,” one Twitter user quipped.
“this is so inappropriate,” another wrote.
“She needs to chill asap,” a third person tweeted.
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“the way she’s saying this with her whole chest and tagging both of them… it’s embarrassing,” one more agreed.
Wilde removed the post from her Story amid the backlash before addressing her followers “who got it twisted,” writing, “It’s hot to respect your partner. Especially when your partner just did thaaaaaat.”
The “House” alum has been on the market since she and Harry Styles broke up in November 2022 after nearly two years of dating.
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A source told news exclusively at the time that Wilde, 38, and the “As It Was” singer, 29, decided to part ways over their busy schedules.
“It’s impossible to have a relationship when he’s in every continent [on tour] and Olivia has her job and her kids,” the insider explained. “This is the right thing for both of them.”
The former couple’s romance had been a subject of much conversation, as they got together around the same time that Wilde announced the end of her seven-year engagement to Jason Sudeikis, with whom she shares two children, Otis, 8, and Daisy, 6.
But the actress denied leaving the “Ted Lasso” star, 47, for Styles, insisting in a Vanity Fair interview last September that their relationship “was over long before” she met the former One Direction member.
Wilde was one of 113 million people who tuned in to the Super Bowl this year to watch Rihanna’s highly anticipated comeback performance, during which the Fenty Beauty founder revealed she is expecting her second child with Rocky.
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Rihanna and the “L$D” performer, both 34, are already the parents of a 9-month-old son, whose name they have yet to publicly share.
