Percy Jackson and The Olympians star Walker Scobell has a message for people who call themselves his fans.
In a (now expired) post on his Instagram stories, the 17-year-old actor revealed he would be skipping prom and asked fans to stop sending death threats to “every teenage girl who could remotely be associated” with him.
“It’s not fair to them or to their families,” he wrote. “Maybe also stop sending death threats in general. That’s just not cool. Kinda weird I have to say this.”
And, of course, he’s right! It is weird he has to spell out that sending anyone death threats is never okay. It should be obvious, right? But social media has dehumanised the celebrity, and sometimes even their loved ones, in such a way that threatening messages, trolling and negative interactions are unfortunately becoming the norm instead of the exception.
True fans will always know that the artists who bring joy to our lives through film, TV and musc:
- are people first;
- deserve to feel safe, just like the rest of us; and
- deserve privacy on their own terms, not ours.
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Walker has been working in the industry since he was 13. He landed his first role in 2022 when he starred alongside Ryan Reynolds in The Adam Project. He also starred in 2025’s Looking Through Water and is a voice actor in the upcoming The Angry Birds Movie 3. He was named the Rising Star at the 2025 SCAD TVFest awards for his role as Percy Jackson and in 2024 he won the Kids’ Choice Award for Favourite Male TV Star.
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