Simon Cowell Says Harry Types Would not Spit on Chris Pine

Simon Cowell has weighed in on “Spitgate.”

The document govt, 62, who fashioned One Path on The X Issue in 2010, defended Harry Types’ character this week on Jimmy Kimmel Stay! after the boy band alum was accused of spitting on Do not Fear Darling costar Chris Pine on the Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant.

“That does not sound like Harry,” Cowell stated, including: “He positively, positively would not try this. That is not Harry. Harry’s very well mannered and charming, he would not try this. … I’ll inform you, he is a really, very, very good man.”

After Kimmel, 54, proposed that Types, 28, may need spit “unintentionally,” Cowell agreed: “I used to be considering that, all of us try this. You recognize while you gob on somebody by chance, and you are like, ‘I am actually sorry I did that.'”

The discourse got here after social media dissected a video by which Types appeared to spit on Pine, 42, as they took their seats at Monday’s world premiere of their new film. Directed by Olivia Wilde, Do not Fear Darling has already garnered consideration and hypothesis over some alleged behind-the-scenes drama.

A rep for Pine commented on the second in an unique assertion to PEOPLE: “This can be a ridiculous story — an entire fabrication and the results of an odd on-line phantasm that’s clearly deceiving and permits for silly hypothesis.”

“Simply to be clear, Harry Types did not spit on Chris Pine,” the rep added. “There may be nothing however respect between these two males and any suggestion in any other case is a blatant try and create drama that merely doesn’t exist.”

Though a rep for Types didn’t reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark, the Grammy Award winner joked in regards to the second onstage at his Madison Sq. Backyard live performance on Wednesday, telling the viewers he “simply popped in a short time to Venice to spit on Chris Pine.”

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Types and Olivia Pugh star in Do not Fear Darling as Jack and Alice, a younger married couple within the Nineteen Fifties, dwelling within the picturesque desert firm city of Victory, Calif., the place Alice turns into obsessive about the mysterious nature of Jack’s work as cracks start to indicate of their utopian neighborhood.

Do not Fear Darling premieres Sept. 23 in theaters.