Britney Spears Shades Another 'British Guy' By Going After Tom Hardy
By Rima Pundir on July 11, 2022 at 7:00 AM EDT
Britney Spears pulled off an "Oops, I Did It Again" moment, again. She's taken to posting celebrity songs, videos, pictures, and even deep fakes, without actually realizing who she is talking about.
Or as some trolls say, it's the new Britney thing, to post about celebrities but not know who they exactly are. Guess Britney Spears has something against British guys? Or is it just Ed Sheeran and Tom Hardy? Scroll down for more.
Shading Ed Sheeran But Not Justin Bieber
Just before getting married, Britney Spears posted a video of her dancing to Ed Sheeran's "I Don't Care" ft. Justin Bieber. Only, in the caption, she did not mention Ed Sheeran at all and instead waxed eloquent about Bieber and naughty boys in general.
Wrote the "Toxic" singer, tagging Bieber, "I remember when you visited me in my dressing room on tour and your beautiful little mamma walked in and said, βdo you know where a tanning bed is?β You were 15 and you were adorable! Thank you for your music β¦ youβre a little devil now πππ I know because I have boys β¦ but youβre a timeless genius and I will always dance to your music π π π !!!"
While fans were happy to see Britney was a "belieber", as in a Justin Bieber fan, many were disappointed to see that she skimmed over Ed Sheeran completely, considering it was his song and Bieber was featured in it.
Watch her twirl, and then some, to "Bieber's song."
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An Incorrect Caption & Some More Cryptic Dancing
Unsurprisingly, one of Britney's latest posts is also of her dancing, and somewhere between her moves and her twirling, she pops closer to the camera to do quick heads or tails quarter flip, and fans are very, very confused by it all.
Wrote one: "Just as you put up some fairly normal posts, you start with this sh*t again."
Another commenter wrote "Is this an old story, about her son leaving a quarter on her piano? And she used an old video, saying I just flew in. She just happened to have a video of her flipping a quarter. I am so confused."
Since she has moved to a new house, her fans know this is an old video as one wrote rather clearly, "But she moved⦠and we are still in this foyer purgatory."
Here's her, doing a strange dance, leaving fans wondering what is going on, because she used the same caption from a different post...
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For Britney Spears, Tom Hardy Is Simply "The British Guy"
In a recent post, Britney wrote out a garbled caption that had fans scratching their heads, again.
Her caption read: "Flying βοΈ home I found this magazine β¦ Iβm not sure who this guy is but I liked the key π tattoo on his right arm β¦ obviously a sad story but I read that he flipped a quarter πͺ and it came up heads !!! So when I danced I saw my son left a quarter on the piano πΉβ¦ I picked it up and look what came up β¦ heads or tails πππ ??? Play on my friends !!! Psss this was shot on Christmas Day !!!! Pssst, the British guy reminds me to believe in magic πͺ πππ Pssssss look at the π !!!!!"
The dance video with the same caption came later, but this post carried a picture of a magazine article, and then a video of Tom Hardy.
The magazine article was of baseball outfielder Jonny Gomes, and it's him with a key tattoo on his arm.
But what left Instagram in splits was that Spears referred to Tom Hardy as "the British guy" without recognizing him for who he was.
As one very irate Tom Hardy fan commented, "How do you not know who Tom freaking Hardy is?! Ummm BAIN! Venom! He played in Lawless (my fave). Heβs only the most beautiful man on earth!"
Some felt it was deliberate, with comments like: "Britney posting every celeb with βI donβt know who this is butβ¦β
Others lent her support, saying, "this post is too cryptic for me I donβt understand but still love you, queen."
Here's her and her cryptic post.
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