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Courtesy of Abby Howard/InstagramTikTokers There is Matt a Abby Howard have reflected on the backlash they received after declaring that they were boycott Father’s Day last year.
During the couple’s 100th episode “Unplanned Podcast,” released on Wednesday, January 8, the couple discussed a viral clip from a famous May 2024 episode of the podcast in which Matt, 26, claimed he wouldn’t celebrate Father’s Day until December that year because that their June 2023 celebration is a ” bummer .” (The married couple share two sons, Griffin, 2, and August, 1.)
Abby, 25, kicked off the couple’s comeback with the clip, which attracted more than 9.4 million views and a barrage of criticism. “Matt’s Father’s Day birthday saga. That was a memorable moment from (the) Unplanned 2024 podcast. What do you think of that moment … one out of 10? You have to contain the emotional trauma,” Abby asks Matt in the new episode.
Matt responded, “Oh my gosh, I can laugh about it now (but) at the time I was, like, horrified. I think it’s funny now, I’m like, that’s so stupid. The words I said… were so stupid too, obviously I didn’t sound good at all.”
Once again, high school sweethearts and social media influencers, Matt and Abby Howard, are causing a stir among their followers. The “Unplanned Podcast” and parents of two sons under the age of two – Griffin, 23 months, and August, 10 months – recently revealed that they are “boycotting” Father’s Day this year since it landed around Matt’s (…)
He continued, “I looked so selfish. I looked so full of myself.”
Despite Matt’s apparent remorse, Abby said she thought it was “kind of funny in retrospect,” before adding that she hadn’t actually seen the controversial clip and, as a result, didn’t know how Matt across it at the time.
“In general, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with … controversial, but I didn’t watch the clip and maybe the clip made it look really bad,” Abby admitted. “If so, that’s on us. I guess we had that one coming.”
At the time, Abby, who was pregnant with the couple’s second child, revealed how she had combined her husband’s birthday with Father’s Day in 2023 because the two events fell on the same day. The pair had also just returned from their baby’s month and Matt had acknowledged that the family was very busy at the time.
TikTok couple Matt Howard and Abby Howard are facing backlash, yet again, for their family cruise. Matt, 26, and Abby, 25, detailed their vacation with 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 that they weren’t enjoying it (…)
Abby and Matt agreed that they would “boycott Father’s Day in June,” as a result of the previous year’s turnout, deciding to celebrate the occasion in September because “nothing goes on in September. “
High school sweethearts have become somewhat accustomed to arguing over the years, attract criticism again in September 2024 when it was revealed that they were going for dinner with friends while their children slept in the family bedroom. “So we ended up taking them for five nights and it became clear they weren’t enjoying it and neither were we,” Abby wrote in an Instagram Story at the time. “So, THEN we changed our lunch time to AFTER their bed time and FaceTIMED the monitors while we ate. And that worked out much better for everyone!”
The post was met with widespread disapproval, despite the source Us Weekly that the families on the cruise “had rooms next to each other and they took turns there,” 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 the highs and lows of their relationship and parenting through their podcast as well as social media.
