Darius Jackson Courtesy of Darius Daulton/Instagram
Keke Palmer’s boyfriend, Darius Jackson, has returned to social media after dealing with criticism for his feedback about her sheer outfit.
Jackson, 29, had quietly deactivated each his Instagram and Twitter profiles on Thursday, July 6, shortly after sparking outrage on-line for throwing shade at Palmer, additionally 29. Jackson, who has been courting Palmer since 2021, wasn’t happy with the revealing costume she wore to a current Usher live performance in Las Vegas.
“It’s the outfit tho … you a mother,” he wrote in a since-deleted tweet on Wednesday, July 5, reposting a video of Palmer dancing on the present.
Jackson added in a second put up: “We stay in a era the place a person of the household doesn’t need the spouse & mom to his youngsters to showcase booty cheeks to please others & he will get advised how a lot of a hater he’s. That is my household & my illustration. I’ve requirements & morals to what I consider. I relaxation my case.”
Social media customers shortly chimed in on the controversy, slamming Jackson for shaming Palmer’s outfit selection.
“I simply need to say I don’t know Keke Palmer’s boyfriend. I don’t know something about him actually apart from the present factor, however let me simply say I hate that man,” Kimora Lee Simmons’ daughter Aoki stated in a since-deleted TikTok video on Thursday, per Leisure Tonight. “I pray and plot on his downfall. I hate him. I’m disgusted. I believe when my good friend advised me that and we was simply sitting … I used to be like ‘What?’ I’d love the possibility to, like, punch that man. … I’m appalled. No couth.”
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Palmer has but to talk publicly on the drama. Upon Jackson’s return to Twitter and Instagram, eagle-eyed followers observed all earlier posts that includes Palmer have seemingly been scrubbed from his profiles. Jackson’s most up-to-date add — shared in June — is a solo pic of him with the pair’s son, Leodis Andrellton, whom they welcomed in February.
Palmer and Jackson had been first linked in the summertime of 2021, practically two years earlier than saying they had been anticipating their first child.
Keke Palmer and Darius Jackson Courtesy of Keke Palmer/Instagram
“There’s some rumors going round, folks have been in my feedback saying, ‘Keke’s having a child, Keke’s pregnant,’ and I wanna set the document straight — I’m,” she quipped throughout her Saturday Evening Reside monologue in December 2022, revealing her child bump for the primary time. “I imply, like, I used to be making an attempt so onerous to maintain it on the down low, ‘trigger I acquired a number of stuff occurring, you already know? Folks saved coming as much as me [and saying,] ‘Congratulations.’ I’m like, ‘Sssh, can y’all cease, I acquired a liquor sponsorship on the road. Let the verify clear after which we are able to get to the rattling child bathe!’”
She continued on the time: “However, truthfully this has been the largest blessing, and I’m so excited. Guys, I’m going to be a mother! Despite the fact that some folks really feel a bit of bizarre about me having a child ‘trigger I used to be a baby actor, I simply wanna say, ‘Look, I’m 29, I’m grown, I’ve intercourse [and] I personal a house. … You realize, issues adults do.’”
Regardless of her boyfriend’s critiques, Palmer shared extra snapshots from her night in Sin Metropolis. A number of stars have since taken to the feedback part of the Instagram put up to reward her spectacular postpartum physique.
“Can I borrow this outfit @keke? As a result of if it makes me really feel anyplace close to nearly as good as you feel and look in it post-baby, I’m prepared,” Jessie J — who gave delivery to son Sky in Might — gushed on Friday, July 7. “You might be GLOWING and INSPIRING and HOT AF. A Mother. A boss. A star.”
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Usher, 44, additionally replied to the put up: “The Huge Boss!! Thank U for coming 🙏🏾.”