Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey’s Friendship Sparks Buzz with Playful Neck-Bite Photo
Avery Sinclair here—your favorite (and only) cynic with a penchant for cutting through the noise and giving you the real tea, minus the sugarcoating. If you thought celebrity friendships were all smiles and staged photos, think again. Because Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey are out here rewriting the rules of platonic affection, one cheeky photo at a time.
Let’s start with the visual that’s got everyone talking: Scarlett and Jonathan, mid-laugh, with him pretending to sink his teeth into her neck. The image, posted Monday on Instagram by both Bailey and his LGBTQ+ charity, The Shameless Fund, is captioned simply, “SCARLETT // @theshamelessfund.” The actress, 40, sports oversized glasses and a smoldering gaze, while Bailey, 37, plays the part of the overly dramatic vampire with flair. It’s all in good fun, of course, but fans can’t stop dissecting the dynamic between the Jurassic World co-stars.
Comments poured in almost instantly. One user joked, “Scarlet Johnson [sic] is living every girl’s dream,” while another chimed in, “Well now you have to bite Colin Jost on the neck as well.” And yes, that’s a reference to Scarlett’s husband, Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost, who’s been seen shrugging off the whole thing with commendable humor. “I guess in ‘Jurassic Park’ terms, the attack always comes from the Raptor you never thought,” Jost told Entertainment Tonight. “Of all the threats out there, I wasn’t thinking it was Jonathan.”
Bailey, who is openly gay, has been vocal about the importance of showing affection freely. “I believe in being able to show love in all different ways. And if you can’t kiss your friends… life’s too short not to,” he told ET during the Jurassic World Rebirth premiere in New York. And kiss they did—multiple times, across red carpets in both London and NYC. At one point, Scarlett even grabbed his face and planted a full-on smooch on him. Because why not?
Jost, for his part, seems unfazed. He even joked that he and Bailey should kiss to “close the loop.” The couple, married since 2020 and parents to 3-year-old Cosmo, have weathered plenty of public scrutiny, but this seems to be one of the lighter storms. Scarlett, when asked by Today’s Craig Melvin if she was surprised by the attention, responded with a smirk: “Nothing surprises me, you know what I mean?”
So what’s the takeaway here? Two A-listers, clearly having fun, are being treated like they’ve committed some kind of scandalous act just because they’re affectionate. In a world where public displays of platonic love are often misinterpreted or sensationalized, maybe Scarlett and Jonathan are just trying to remind us all that not every kiss is romantic—and that’s okay.
And honestly? If this is the biggest controversy Hollywood has to offer right now, we’ll take it.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and NYP Post, Entertainment Tonight, Today Show
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