Jordan Stephens has sparked concern after telling a fan to “shut up” on TikTok, weeks after his split from long-time girlfriend Jade Thirlwall. The 34-year-old responded to a comment from a woman named Hannah who had written on a previous video that he always seems to “whinge”.
In a video shared on the platform, Stephens said: “A woman called Hannah just left a comment on my last video, saying: 'All you do is whinge. Why don't you just enjoy life?'” He then ranted: “Well, I mean, Hannah, why don't you shut up? Why don't you shut up? I do enjoy life, that's the plot twist and I enjoy complaining, that's my main thing. Why don't you enjoy your life? Where do you live? Not in a threatening way, I'm intrigued as to how you have that outlook with the current settings. Anyway, I'm going to go to the woods.”
Concern from fans
In an earlier video, shared only hours before, Stephens said he was having an “existential spiral” about how technology “peaked in 2004” and that the technology we have now is not needed. Fans reacted to his rant about Hannah with concern. One sarcastically said the musician was “taking the divorce well”, while a second wrote: “I’m worried for you x”. Another said they had been worried by his recent posts and hoped he was doing well. A fourth added: “Hey are you ok? Hope everything is ok.”
One fan defended Hannah, agreeing: “All you post is negative stuff”. But another pointed to the breakup, arguing: “Has he not just split from the lovely jade sure he's allowed to whinge if he wants.”
Split and podcast comments
Jordan and Jade broke up in July after six years together. Stephens confirmed the situation, despite admitting he does not like speaking about it in public. He labelled being in a high-profile relationship “complex and difficult” before hinting there could be more to come.
He made the admission on an episode of his podcast Miss Me? with Miquita Oliver. He told his co-host: “I think I'm uncomfortable with even the concept of it being out. I've never experienced. I've never been in a high-profile relationship, really, so I think I'm very conflicted because I definitely pride myself on being open and transparent, and I like to pull apart experiences of my own in the hope that it can create insight or create conversation.”
He added: “But I think this is a difficult one because if I'm to believe how quickly speculation can arise. I'm always like a couple of words or sentences away from either making something worse.” He said he planned to discuss it further “once things have settled a bit”, because he is “not going to avoid something that's quite obvious that's been a thing”.
He went on: “I don't want to like pretend like that isn't happening or hasn't happened but I also want to make it clear that it's so bizarre. I'm a very transparent person and things will come out when necessary and I don't mean to be too cryptic, it really isn't that deep, well I mean it is deep for me but I mean I think it's really important that whatever you may think as an everyday normal human... Like how complex and difficult relationships can be, there's no difference; you don't get any exemptions. There's no unusual subjective feeling when you also have followers. It just doesn't work like that. Grief does not or anything like that or any powerful emotion doesn't discriminate.”
