“World’s Top Autograph Seeker” Apologizes To Harry Styles After Heated Street Encounter

Right now, Harry Styles is in the middle of his massive 30-show residency at New York's Madison Square Garden. That means that he sometimes has to walk around in New York, a place where he'll get recognized even if he dons the standard celebrity hat/sunglasses disguise. (Styles and Thom Yorke recently commiserated about how it's better to walk around with the people.) Earlier this week, he got into what looked like an argument with an aggressive autograph seeker, and it made the news.

On Wednesday, Styles was out in the Manhattan streets, and he got into an on-camera dispute with someone who wanted him to sign a copy of his recent album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. TMZ, reporting on the incident, called it a "heated exchange." Styles has a reputation for being gracious with fans, but this was not one of those situations. In the video, Styles never freaked out or anything, but he didn't seem happy with the guy, who kept following him when he tried to walk away.

The other guy in that conversation turns out to be someone named Giovanni, who refers to himself as "the world's top autograph seeker" in his Instagram bio. In a statement posted on Instagram last night, Giovanni apologized to Styles, saying the he was the one in the wrong in this situation:

Harry didn't lose his cool. I did. He stayed calm and even helped calm me down.

I want to clear up some of the headlines about my recent encounter with Harry Styles in NYC.

Harry has always been a gentleman to me, going all the way back to 2012 when he first signed for me.

The truth is, I was having a bad day and I was out of line. Harry was actually totally chill about the whole situation and even helped calm me down.

The headlines suggesting Harry lost his cool couldn't be further from the truth. If anything, I was the one who needed to cool down.

I take full responsibility and sincerely apologize to Harry. He's always been cool with me, and he deserves nothing but respect.

Well, that's nice. We can only hope that John Wilson will do something with all this. In other news, Spotify has announced plans to end Styles' MSG residency with "the ultimate Harryween celebration," which appears involve the return of LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy's old vinyl-only DJ night Despacio.

Also, Styles reportedly noticed Vogue boss Anna Wintour in the crowd at a recent show ant told her to "go to bed."