Michael B. Jordan awkwardly called out reporter on red carpet who used to tease him in school

Coming face-to-face with that person you used to take the p**s out of you in school isn’t exactly something most of us dream about.

While you might expect to feel pretty smug and rub in their face where you are now, it’s more likely to be relatively awkward.

And despite all his fame, that was the case for Michael B. Jordan as the actor ended up calling out a reporter on the red carpet for the comments she had made about him in their school days.

But since those younger days, the celeb, who turns 38 this Sunday (9 February) made a name for himself as Wallace in HBO's The Wire and has appeared in the likes of Fantastic Four, Black Panther and Creed.

Michael B. Jordan has a hugely successful career (Jun Sato/WireImage)

And while he was on the red carpet for the Creed III premiere, he ended up meeting Lorel’l, host of The Morning Hustle Show, who he just so happened to go to the same school as him in New Jersey.

So, Jordan saw a chance to remind her of her previous comments.

"I was the corny kid, right?" he said to her. Lore'l then attempted to defend herself as she responded: "I did not say that! I was misquoted for sure!"

But the actor wasn’t having it, doubling down: "I heard it.”

This comment he was referring to came from a podcast Lore’l has appeared on back in 2021 – Undressing Room.

"You know what’s so crazy? I went to school with Michael B. Jordan at a point in life,” she said.

"And to be honest with you, we teased him all the damn time because his name was Michael Jordan. Let’s start there, and he was no Michael Jordan. And he also would come to school with a headshot. We lived in Newark, that’s the hood.”

Lore’l went on to claim that other classmates there would ‘make fun of him’ and question what he was planning to do with his ‘stupid headshot’.

“And now look at him,” she added. “But yeah, he is obviously killing things out there.”

The host denied directly calling him corny and attempted to end things on a lighter note by saying to him: “Well, you're not corny anymore.”

Jordan appeared to not bother responding though as he carried on down the red carpet. And following this awkward exchange, fans hit back in his support.

One X user wrote: “You called him corny. Now you gotta call him actor, director, superstar, Hollywood mogul. Living legend. He took that s**t personally.”

As another said: “You called him corny, but you're the one who interviewing him not the other way around. I'm glad MBJ got the last laugh.”