There’s a new grooming trend afoot in Hollywood…and it stinks. Literally. If you haven’t yet heard, it’s a reluctance to bathe. First, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis came out about their laissez-faire approach to lathering up. “I wash my armpits and my crotch daily, and nothing else ever,” Kutcher said on the Armchair Expert podcast. “I got a bar of Lever 2000 that delivers every time. Nothing else.”
Now, Jake Gyllenhaal has jumped on the au naturel bandwagon. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, the critically acclaimed actor admitted, “More and more I find bathing to be less necessary, at times.” He elaborated: “There’s a whole world of not bathing that is really helpful for skin maintenance and we naturally clean ourselves.”
OK, we understand wanting to cut back on skin-drying soaps and other products. But basic hygiene is essential to, oh, existing in a society with other human beings. We are not cats, Jake. We can’t just lick ourselves clean.
But don’t listen to us; hear Twitter out. A ton of people had hilarious reactions to Gyllenhaal’s bathing aversion.
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so jake gyllenhaal was stinking it up on that brokeback mountain set! they thought it was the sheep… but it was him!
— not trin (@HEYSANRIO) August 6, 2021
Jake Gyllenhaal has confused his entire body with a vagina https://t.co/V2wVd6rgop
— Justin Whang (@JustinWhang) August 7, 2021
me when it’s time to eat the rich and it’s jake gyllenhaal pic.twitter.com/fJrOAMBqYT
— haribo (real) (very cool) (@sortahari) August 7, 2021
this cat’s name is Not Jake Gyllenhaalpic.twitter.com/yJ2T4MdOrt
— Erik Forrest Jackson (@MrErikJackson) August 7, 2021
tom holland after inhaling jake gyllenhaal’s odour on the spiderman set pic.twitter.com/Rbu247cVdM
— tabitha (@filmmaddens) August 6, 2021
Tom on the set of Spider-Man with jake gyllenhaal pic.twitter.com/z7P7PdduNc
— Spidey_HGB (@Holland97M) August 6, 2021
me if i see ashton kutcher, mila kunis, & jake gyllenhaal on the street
pic.twitter.com/F139KZkog6— #rip_rayheather (@bvffysfilms) August 6, 2021
pov: you’re starring in a film with Ashton Kutcher and Jake Gyllenhaal pic.twitter.com/0Yow6PTJgT
— bec⁷ #1 Evapopper (@jmnftagustd) August 6, 2021
this wasn’t added with cgi, it was just jake gyllenhaal’s natural odors pic.twitter.com/P7bVgEbvpd
— via (@pixiedarko) August 6, 2021
zendaya and tom holland on set when jake Gyllenhaal pulled up pic.twitter.com/fJqnSGI2Ng
— RedLightning (@RedLightning420) August 6, 2021
Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, & Jake Gyllenhaal genuinely didn’t need to tell us they don’t bathe. pic.twitter.com/T76sS3kRBZ
— Hakuna (@HakunaTheFckNot) August 6, 2021
If Jake Gyllenhaal not washing Maggie probably not either, Joker mighta did Gotham a favor
— Young Person (@EricTrillman_) August 6, 2021
If Jake Gyllenhaal not washing Maggie probably not either, Joker mighta did Gotham a favor
— Young Person (@EricTrillman_) August 6, 2021
what jake gyllenhaal uses in the shower (real) pic.twitter.com/7vJ3kmRWtI
— martina (@scottswinterr) August 6, 2021
Y’all acting like you wouldn’t wanna smell Jake Gyllenhaal’s stinky hairy pits ok…
— William (@squillbox) August 6, 2021
ok fine i will bathe jake gyllenhaal
— David Mack (@davidmackau) August 6, 2021
Jake Gyllenhaal when someone tells him to bathe pic.twitter.com/tgeqVGz3zr
— BLURAYANGEL (@blurayangel) August 6, 2021