Jack Antonoff has addressed his split from actress Margaret Qualley with a joking response during a recent concert.
The Bleachers frontman, 42, and Qualley, 31, confirmed in July that they had ended their marriage after three years together.
Antonoff referenced the breakup while performing at The Troubadour in Los Angeles on September 15, after a fan asked him to play his 2017 song “Let’s Get Married.”
After a fan asked him to play his 2017 track Let’s Get Married, Antonoff quipped, ‘absolutely not,’ in a video shared on social media.
“Absolutely not,” Antonoff quipped. He then told the audience, “Read the news, brother,” before laughing and adding, “I love that song and I wrote it, like, 11 years ago.”
At the time Antonoff wrote the track, he appeared to still be dating his former partner Lena Dunham. The pair were together from 2012 until 2017. Dunham revealed on Wednesday that she had welcomed a daughter via surrogate.
Jack Antonoff, 42, responded with humor when a fan requested a song about marriage during his Los Angeles concert, following his split from Margaret Qualley, 31; Antonoff seen in February
The musician and actress announced their separation in July, ending their marriage after three years; Seen together in 2025
Antonoff and Qualley, who have an 11-year age difference, were last publicly seen together at the Grammy Awards on February 1. Their separation was announced just weeks before what would have been their third wedding anniversary.
Qualley’s representative told TMZ on July 10 that infidelity was not involved. The representative also denied claims of trust issues, describing the circumstances surrounding the end of the actress’s “rocky” marriage to the Golden Globe-nominated songwriter.
In July sources claimed to Page Six that Antonoff and Qualley ‘have no plans to reconcile’ and ‘are done for good’ but ‘they are still communicating and being respectful of one another.’
Speculation intensified when Antonoff attended the July 3 wedding celebrations for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce with his sister Rachel, rather than Qualley.
The former couple may still have been together on March 31, when Qualley posted an Instagram Story marking Antonoff’s birthday.
She shared a photograph of the musician with his arm around her and wrote, “Happy birthday sweetheart.”
However, on April 28, Qualley restored her Instagram handle to her legal name, Sarah Margaret Qualley, after previously using a name linked to Antonoff’s music. She also removed wedding images posted in March from their ceremony at Beach Haven in his home state of New Jersey.
Qualley’s absence from the high-profile wedding festivities came 11 months after she offered an awkward reaction when asked why Antonoff had not produced one of Swift’s albums.
When a fan requested “Let’s Get Married” during his Tuesday show at The Troubadour in Los Angeles, Bleachers singer Jack Antonoff joked, “Absolutely not”; Seen performing in June
‘Read the news, brother,’ he added, before breaking into a laugh. He then clarified, ‘I love that song and I wrote it, like, 11 years ago’; Seen in 2024
Antonoff was seemingly still in a relationship with his ex Lena Dunham, whom he dated from 2012 until 2017, when he wrote the song; The two seen in 2014
Qualley’s representative told TMZ on July 10 that there ‘was no infidelity’ and ‘no trust issues’ leading to the demise of her ‘rocky’ marriage to Antonoff; Seen in 2024
The actress appeared caught off guard when Today co-host Craig Melvin mentioned The Life of a Showgirl in their sit-down.
After noting that Antonoff has ‘produced for Taylor for years’ and has ‘an album that’s coming out,’ the journalist asked Qualley to ‘tell us about’ the record.
‘I don’t know anything,’ she replied as her eyes widened in surprise.
Qualley proceeded to let out an awkward laugh before adding, ‘I’ll be excited to listen to the music.’
Melvin responded with a pointed, ‘OK. Alright,’ signaling he wasn’t entirely convinced she was as out of the loop as she claimed.
Antonoff has served as Swift’s primary co-songwriter and producer on her most recent albums, 2022’s Midnights and 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department.
Her latest record, however, was produced by Max Martin and Shellback.
Swift fans famously swarmed Qualley and Antonoff’s wedding rehearsal dinner in 2023.
They married at Parker’s Garage in Long Beach Island, New Jersey, with guests including Swift, model Cara Delevingne and Lana Del Rey in attendance.
The daughter of actress Andie MacDowell was the epitome of elegance in a white, halter-styled wedding gown with a plunging neckline.
The former couple was first romantically linked back in August 2021, and later attended the Critics’ Choice Awards together in March 2022, seemingly publicly confirming their budding relationship.
Antonoff and Qualley, who have an 11-year age gap, haven’t been publicly pictured together since the Grammy Awards on February 1 and their split came one month shy of their third wedding anniversary; Seen in 2023
Antonoff’s previous romances also include photographer Carlotta Kohl and Scarlett Johansson.
The Blue Moon actress was previously romantically linked to her Death Note co-star Nat Wolff, SNL alum Pete Davidson and her Love Me Like You Hate Me leading man Shia LaBeouf.
Audiences can catch Qualley as the medic Cima in Ridley Scott’s $110 million-budget sci-fi flick The Dog Stars – out in US/UK theaters – alongside Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin and Allison Janney.
Her other upcoming films include Amazon’s romantic drama Love of Your Life and Neon’s Southern supernatural horror King Snake.
