Liam Gallagher posted a selfie on Instagram last week, appearing to sport new blond locks, all hell broke loose. The snap, taken in Australia, where he’s on tour, and captioned, “Ey, blondie”, was quickly splashed across the tabloids and mocked on social media.
It was as if the former Oasis frontman, now 49, was personally responsible for the hosepipe ban and the UK’s looming recession.
The politer comments compared him unfavourably to Boris Johnson or a late-1990s Robbie Williams, and said he’d spent too much time Down Under.
The next day Gallagher responded by calling his fans “lunatics” for even imagining he’d actually dyed his hair; it was, he said, “just the light n the sunshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine ffs”.The fact remains that, in 2022, when you can choose your pronoun or change your gender, a man merely changing the colour of his hair still causes so much consternation.
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