TikTok stars Matt and Abi Howard address the controversy surrounding Father’s Day
Abby and Matt Howard
Courtesy of Abby Howard/InstagramTikTokers He died and Abby Howard This was reflected in the backlash they received after announcing this Father’s Day boycott last year.
During the 100th episode of the couple’s program “Unplanned Podcastreleased on Wednesday, January 8, the pair discussed a viral clip from the infamous May 2024 episode of the podcast in which Matt, 26, claimed he wouldn’t celebrate Father’s Day until December of that year because their June 2023 celebration was “problematic.” (The couple has two sons, Griffin, 2, and August, 1.)
Abby, 25, began revisiting the couple for the clip, which attracted more than 9.4 million views and a torrent of criticism. “Matt’s epic birthday on Father’s Day. That was an unforgettable moment of [the] Unplanned Podcast 2024. How would you rate that moment.. one out of 10? “You have to include the emotional trauma,” Abby asks Matt in the new episode.
“Oh my god, I can laugh about that now,” Matt replied [but] At the time I was terrified. I think it’s funny now, I think that’s so stupid. The words I said… were also very stupid, and I obviously didn’t look good at all.
High school sweethearts turned social media influencers, Matt and Abi Howard, are once again causing a stir among their followers. The “Unplanned Podcast” hosts and parents of two boys under 2 years old — Griffin, 23 months, and August, 10 months — recently revealed that they are “boycotting” Father’s Day this year because it’s getting closer to Matt’s house. […]
He continued: “She seemed very selfish. I looked full of myself.
Despite Matt’s apparent remorse, Abby said she thought it was “kind of funny in hindsight,” before adding that she hadn’t watched the controversial clip and, as a result, didn’t know how Matt appeared at the time.
“Overall, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with…the controversy, but I didn’t watch the clip and maybe the clip made it look really bad,” Abby admitted. “In this case, that’s on us. I think we had this coming.”
At the time, Abby, who was pregnant with the couple’s second child, revealed how she combined her husband’s birthday with Father’s Day in 2023 because the two events fell on the same day. The couple had just returned from their babymoon and Matt admitted the family had been very busy at the time.
TikTok couple Matt Howard and Abi Howard are facing backlash once again over their family trip. Matt, 26, and Abby, 25, detailed their vacation with their sons Griffin, 2, and August, 12 months, via Instagram earlier this week. “So we ended up taking them for 5 nights and it became clear they weren’t enjoying it […]
Abi and Matt agreed that they would “boycott Father’s Day in June”, as a result of the previous year’s demand, and decided to celebrate the occasion in September as “nothing happens in September”.
The high school sweethearts have become somewhat familiar with the controversy over the years, Attract criticism Back in September 2024 when they revealed they went to dinner with friends while their children slept in the family bedroom. “We ended up taking them for five nights, and it became clear they weren’t enjoying it, and so neither were we,” Abby wrote in an Instagram Story at the time. “So, we moved dinner time to after bedtime and FaceTIME on our screens while we ate. It was so much better for everyone!”
This post was met with widespread rejection, despite what the source said Us Weekly Families on the cruise had “rooms next to each other and took turns being there,” he said, adding that the children were “never alone and the use of baby monitors was an extra precaution.”
Abby and Matt married in July 2019 before welcoming their sons. Since becoming parents, the podcast hosts have shared their relationship and the highs and lows of parenting across their podcast as well as social media.
