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Matty Healy deactivated his Twitter account after apparently drawing the ire of Lucy Dacus by posting an ignorant, ableist joke on the social media platform.

In a since-deleted tweet posted to the account @mattyfrnglomg (which is believed to belong to Healy), the singer wrote: “I told Lucy Dacus that ‘Boygenius’ had inspired me and [drummer] George [Daniel] to start a new band called ‘Girlretard’. I don’t really hear from her that often.”

After invoking her supergroup trio, Dacus set the record straight on the frequency of her correspondence with Healy by replying, “you don’t hear from me at all.” In a separate tweet, Healy issued one last message in retreat, saying “Yeah this never goes well does it” before deactivating the account. See Dacus’ still-standing burn below.

While Healy’s outspoken comments have historically ranged from well-intentioned but misguided to flagrantly insensitive, his latest veered heavily toward the latter.

In June, Healy was publicly called out by Rina Sawayama during her Glastonbury set for racist remarks made on The Adam Friedland Show podcast. The 1975 singer notably deactivated his verified Twitter account in 2020 after tweeting a message of support for Black Lives Matter while simultaneously promoting one of his band’s songs.

Though Healy has made more appearances with Dacus’ boygenius bandmate Phoebe Bridgers, the two previously shared the stage in 2022 at Jack Antonoff’s Ally Coalition benefit concert along with Bridgers, Weyes Blood, and Trey Anastasio.

you don’t hear from me at all https://t.co/jKTwO0ehcX

— Lucy Dacus (@lucydacus) September 21, 2023

Matty Healy deactivated after Lucy Dacus of boygenius responded to his tweet about her and the band. pic.twitter.com/wIvz3GfVFn

A video of the hilarious moment veteran actress, Rita Edochie, pranked her colleague, Emeka Enyiocha, with a car gift, has been shared online.

Mark Williams received a seven-point penalty as an attempted practical joke backfired in his World Grand Prix match against Hossein Vafaei. The incident occurred during the fifth frame of the match, with Williams picking up the cue ball and hiding it in his pocket while referee Olivier Marteel was replacing the balls. Williams’ antics got a laugh from the Morningside Arena crowd, which only got louder once Marteel turned around and realised the cue ball was missing. However, as a smirking Williams gave the ball back to Marteel, the referee informed him: “You know that’s a penalty seven. It’s a penalty seven points to Hossein. You touched the ball during a consultation period, it’s in the rules.” Williams was left in disbelief at the penalty and criticised the rules after the match, saying: “World Snooker say ‘have a bit of fun, try and show your character’ and stuff like that. You do something like that, just to have a bit of fun, because it took him a while to get back, so I just picked it up and put it in my pocket, and I got fouled seven for it! “What do they want? They want you to express yourself and have a bit of fun. When you do it, you get penalty points, so I won’t be doing that again!” The Welshman went on to win the match 4-1, but there was yet more drama at the end when Vafaei walked off without shaking hands with Williams. “I just pulled him up about it and said ‘what’s your problem’, and he said it was because I slapped my leg at the end, when I won,” Williams said. “I slapped my leg at the end because I shouldn’t have gone for the pink. I should have played safe. I thought he would have come back to the table and carried on for snookers. That’s why I was a bit fuming. He just stormed off, but if that’s the reason… I don’t care anyway!” Williams is now set to face Cao Yupeng in the quarter-finals and he is feeling confident about his chances of winning the World Grand Prix. Speaking ahead of the tournament, Williams told WST : “I have been playing well for a while now. “I was thinking about my game over Christmas and I felt I had gone a bit slow and lethargic, second guessing myself. My instinct to play shots with freedom is as good as anyone’s. “In a way this event is more important than the Masters because there are ranking points, and that was the motivation for me to get up off the canvas after losing in the semi-finals last week. I have got three cracks left to make sure I am in the Players Championship, I want to be there to defend that title.” Join our new WhatsApp community! Click this link to receive your daily dose of Mirror Football content. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don’t like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you’re curious, you can read our Privacy Notice.