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Heidi Venable

The Immediate Reaction Scarlett Johansson Has When Someone Calls Her ‘ScarJo’

Scarlett Johansson with a troubled look on her face in My Mother's Wedding.

We’re living in an era of brevity, and if words can be combined or shortened for the sake of convenience or a reduced character count, all the better. Nobody goes to the refrigerator to get mayonnaise anymore; we go to the fridge for mayo. We’ve had Brangelinas, Bennifers and Kimyes. Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s relationship has been shortened to TNT (or 🧨, if you’re feeling cute). So how do celebs like Scarlett Johansson feel when people call them by these nicknames?

Scarlett Johansson paid a visit to The Today Show, where she hung out with Jenna Bush Hager on Today with Jenna & Friends. The host may not have called her child a swear word, but she did hit a nerve by mentioning the nickname “ScarJo” that those in the media have regularly adopted. Johansson didn’t hold back when Bush Hager asked her about it, saying:

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