Dylan Efron dressed down to set the record straight.
The Traitors star, 33, clarified his recent comments on showering being “overrated” in a new video shared to his Instagram Stories that showed him wearing nothing but a colorful Speedo.
In the clip, Efron proves that he still showers despite his strong opinions by stepping under an outdoor shower while wearing a black Speedo with a green, yellow and blue design. First, he is seen rinsing off under the shower faucet before turning it off and walking towards his camera.
The reality TV personality, drenched in water, then runs his hand over his head and face.
While appearing on the Feb. 28 episode of the interview show Are You Okay?, Zac Efron’s younger brother shared his hot take on showers. “I think people shower too much,” he said, adding, “We take way too many showers. I go in the pool a lot. Like, there’s chlorine — it’s killing everything.”
When the show’s host pointed out that you can’t properly wash yourself in a pool, he replied, “We don’t need to soap our bodies every time we’re in the shower, either. That’s way too much!”
People in the comments section were quick to dismiss Dylan’s answer, with one writing, “I want to go back to a time I didn’t hear this take on too many showers 😓.”
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Another commenter wrote, “He doesn’t shower, he’s NOT okay.”
After the shocking comments, Efron joined the ranks of celebrities who have previously admitted their aversion to showering. In 2021, Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher made headlines for their controversial shower opinions regarding themselves and their kids.
The couple — who share daughter Wyatt Isabelle and son Dimitri Portwood — revealed during an appearance on the Armchair Expert podcast that they don’t believe in washing with soap every day.
The subject came up when co-hosts Dax Shepard and Monica Padman started discussing how frequently they shower. When Shepard insisted that Padman “should not be getting rid of the natural oil on your skin with a bar of soap every day” and instead only wash with water,” Kunis and Kutcher agreed.
“I can’t believe I am in the minority here of washing my whole body in the shower. Who taught you to not wash?” Padman asked, to which Kunis replied, “I didn’t have hot water growing up as a child, so I didn’t shower much anyway.”
“But when I had children, I also didn’t wash them every day,” she actress continued. “I wasn’t that parent that bathed my newborns — ever.”
A few months later, Kristen Bell, who shares daughters Lincoln and Delta with husband Shepard, told The View in response to the discourse sparked by the podcast episode that they also do not regularly bathe their kids.
“I’m a big fan of waiting for the stink. Once you catch a whiff, that’s biology’s way of letting you know you need to clean it up,” she said. “There’s a red flag. Honestly, it’s just bacteria; once you get bacteria you gotta be like, ‘Get in the tub or the shower.’ So I don’t hate what [Kunis and Kutcher] are doing. I wait for the stink.”
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