Idris Elba wants to stop his social media: ‘it makes me depressed’

Bad news for fans of Idris Elba (47). The former ‘sexiest man on earth’ wants to quit social media because it makes him unhappy, he told Fast Company.

“I am not proud of it, but it is so”

The timelines of Idris’ Twitter and Instagram have therefore become a lot more empty in recent weeks. “I used to post a lot more, but I’m getting a bit upset about it lately,” he said. “And Twitter is not how I want to get the news.”

The 47-year-old actor gradually tries to stop social media altogether. He doesn’t like what Idris finds there. “I get the news bundled in on my iPad, but I can’t keep checking it all the time. I’m not proud of it, but it is so. It makes me depressed.”

Yet the actor also has fun on Twitter. Idris recently joked about his successor John Legend as Sexiest Man Alive of People magazine. The actor shared an old photo of himself from 1995 and placed it next to a snapshot of the singer from the same year to show that he has been the best for decades. The tweet was shared en masse. “It was just a joke, just a little silly. I didn’t expect it to be such a big thing. It was great.”