Hollywood celebrities who love K-pop: Cruella’s Emma Stone, WWE and F9 star John Cena and Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams are all BTS fans – but who stans CL and SNSD?

Jun 8 , 2021

Emma Stone, Lorde, James Corden and John Cena are all K-pop fans. Photos: Shutterstock, @wisteriagrown/Twitter, AFP, ABImages

Lorde has been a fan of Girls’ Generation and 2NE1 since high school, wants to collaborate with singer Lee Hi and told rapper CL, ‘I hope we get to hug one day’

The BTS members have appeared on James Corden’s show, while Emma Stone said she screamed when she saw the boys backstage before a Saturday Night Live episode

The hallyu wave is taking over the globe – and Western celebrities are no exception. BTS is particularly popular among the A-list set, which comes as no surprise considering the supergroup’s recent Grammy nod. But which star said BTS encouraged him to love himself more, and who screamed when she saw the boys backstage?

John Cena

The former WWE star has been a long-time fan of K-pop, but this year he told The Ellen DeGeneres Show how much his love for the genre has grown after Korean fans caught word of his taste in music and embraced him.

He said: “The very popular group, BTS, had just released an album called ‘Love Yourself’. So I put out all these messages about self-love and I’m thinking, ‘This is not going to be a good idea because this big, larger-than life, 16-time WWE champion is now talking about vulnerability and the fact that you are enough and you shouldn’t be ashamed of who you are,’ but it caught fire because of the BTS Army.”

The Fast & Furious 9 actor has said that BTS fans even inspired his next two books.

Emma Stone