Niall Horan Finally Comments On Dustin The Turkey Controversy Online

Niall Horan on Dustin The Turkey drama

Irish artist Niall Horan has finally commented on the Dustin The Turkey drama.

His fans outside of Ireland were fuming over Dustin's, 'disrespectful,' behaviour towards Niall on RTÉ's Comic Relief special.

 

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NUMBER ONE ALBUM in both UK and home country of Ireland. Thank you so much to everyone who bought / streamed this record. I spent a lot of time on this and tonnes of hard work and to see it received like this is just incredible. Thank you to everyone around the world too, your support is unprecedented. keep it up in the coming weeks and again THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU .

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Niall appeared for a performance during a revival of The Den on RTÉ's special episode.

Both Dustin and Ray D'Arcy interrupted the former One Direction member while he was performing.

The puppet joked, "We wanted Harry Styles!"

That was so disrespectful n he doesn't deserve that
RESPECT NIALL HORAN pic.twitter.com/H7G7JBUcIh

— , (@SummerEvening28) June 28, 2020

Unfortunately, Niall's fans outside of Ireland didn't realise the interruption was part of a planned sketch.

Angry Twitter threads formed online, and the words, 'RESPECT NIALL HORAN,' started trending.

So Dustin tweeted, Lads...... I’m a lover* not a fighter....'

Lads......

I’m a lover* not a fighter....

I @NiallOfficial
I Americans
I The Craic #BeKind

*Just ask @KimKardashian

— Dustin The Turkey (@DustinOfficial) June 28, 2020

Niall responds

Niall finally addressed the controversy during a chat on Sirius XM last week.

He laughed when asked about it, "Oh yeah this has kicked off big time."

"So there’s a few characters that did an afternoon TV show in Ireland for years, like puppets, and one of them is known to be quite brash but in the most Irish way possible."

 

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In October 2018 I wrote the first song for this record . Both you and I have been waiting for this day for a long time. I had so much fun and a lot of hard moments writing this album and I’m very proud of the record as a body of work. ⁣ NOW IT’S YOURS. Dance, laugh, cry, take the lyrics in, do whatever makes you feel it. ⁣ ⁣ Thank you for your patience and loyal support as always. I really hope that you love it as much as I love it x⁣ ⁣ PS. Please listen from track one right through to the end, to feel the storyline. ⁣ ⁣ Love you all ⁣ ⁣ Nialler x

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"So my fans have completely retaliated against the Turkey and it’s kicked off…"

"And he’s like our national mascot so I’m kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place where I don’t know whether to tell the fans that like it’s a puppet, and to also realise that our national treasure is Dustin The Turkey.”

Niall confirmed he was, "in on the joke."

No further comments have been made.