Harry Styles on Swift speech: I like a joke as much as the next guy

OHMYGOSSIP — Harry Styles has responded to Taylor Swift’s MTV VMAs award acceptance speech. The One Direction singer commented on Swift’s sense of humour, after she appeared to make reference to Styles during the MTV Video Music Awards 2013 ceremony.

On collecting the ‘Best Female Video’ award for ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’, Swift said: “I also want to thank the person who inspired this song, who knows exactly who he is, because now I got one of these.”

Speaking to Extra at the group’s This Is Us New York premiere, Styles said: “It’s alright, she likes a joke. I like a joke as much as the next guy, so it’s all good.”

When asked about being pictured with Swift at an after party, the 19-year-old replied: “Yeah, I went for a drink with Ed and some friends. It was good.”

Bandmates Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson have already jumped to Styles’s defence, calling the remark unnecessary.

The singer also addressed Miley Cyrus’s performance, adding: “I thought it was vanilla. I would feel comfortable watching it with my grandma.”

A video of Swift appearing to tell the band to “shut the f**k up” during the ceremony has spread online.