‘Wednesday’ Star Jenna Ortega Sparks Backlash Over Rumored Boyfriend — Here’s What We Know

Jenna Ortega is getting mixed up in past controversies concerning a band’s frontman named Elias Rønnenfelt. 

So, who is Elias Rønnenfelt? He’s the lead singer of a punk rock group called Iceage and, apparently, Ortega’s rumored boyfriend. So, what is all this neo-Nazi garbage? It’s related to Rønnenfelt’s past, which is reportedly coming back to haunt him and, now, Ortega.

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Here’s the deal.

Dating rumors began swirling around the Wednesday actress, 23, and the Danish musician, 34, back in October 2025. Following Ortega’s appearance in the frontman’s music video for “Mona Lisa,” the two have been seen on multiple occasions, including getting “lovey-dovey” in Denmark, making out in Copenhagen, and chilling at a pub in Dublin.

That would be all fine and well if the musician hadn’t been linked to Nazism. History, aka a Pitchfork interview from March 2021, reveals Rønnenfelt used “quasi-fascist imagery” in the start of his career and “curated a festival that included an act with a racist name.” 

He told Pitchfork he regretted those actions, saying that he and his band have no “sympathies or leanings” toward right-wing ideologies. “When a lot of these allegations came out we were dumbfounded,” he said. “Now I understand that we hold a responsibility on our shoulders to make it clear what we stand for.”

Beyond the interview, Reddit users claim Rønnenfelt enacts physical violence on fans at his shows, breaking their phones and kicking them in their chests. Because of such alleged actions, fans on social media are calling out the Death of a Unicorn star, pointing to possible hypocrisy. 

In late 2023, Ortega walked away from the Scream franchise following co-star’s Melissa Barrera’s firing for remarks she made about the Israel-Hamas war, per The Hollywood Reporter. Now, seemingly dating a guy whose past is shrouded in Nazi imagery and violence, the actress is facing severe backlash.

At this point, nothing, from the relationship between the two to the allegations concerning Rønnenfelt, has been confirmed. 

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