It’s been quite the wild rollercoaster ride for Noah Centineo. One minute he’s the heartthrob whom every teenage girl is dreaming about, next minute he’s a jerk-bro whose appeal has evaporated in a cloud of hair bleach and weird posts seemingly ripped off from 2004 Tumblr blogs. But there’s still one person out there who is seemingly still thirsting over Noah: middle-aged comedian David Spade.
This isn’t some weird fan-shipping thing that we just pulled out of the hat. During Noah Centineo’s cooked People’s Choice Awards speech, the camera happened to pan over to Spade, who was seemingly in a state of ecstasy.
Between the ridiculously intense licking of the lips to the dazed look of a man who is deep in thought about some unsavoury stuff, it seems like Noah’s speech was the last thing about the guy that was on ol’ mate Dave’s mind.
Look, we can’t really blame David Spade for looking like a thirsty teenage girl when in the vicinity of Noah Centineo. Sure he’s kind of gross now but he’s objectively a good-looking chap so some unashamed ogling is bound to happen.
Of course it could also be a case of David Spade spacing out and the camera catching him at that exact moment, which is also within the realm of possibility. Those awards shows are long and can be tedious so it’s no surprise that Dave spaced out mid-ceremony.
After much furor over whether Dave has the hots for Noah Centineo or not, we ultimately got an answer from the man himself and his explanation, sadly, quite boring.
Chatting about the incident on his show, Lights Out With David Spade (via Cinema Blend), he said it was literally a case of him spacing out and the camera catching it rather than him thirsting over Noah.
It’s almost a bit of a shame that this whole viral moment wasn’t born out of a random moment of lust. But hey, at least it gave us some good laughs.
Given the gradual turning of the tide on Noah Centineo’s heartthrob status though, one feels he’ll be wishing that David Spade was genuinely lusting after him sooner rather than later.