While the city of Paris is juggling the noise, attention, and celebrity arrivals of Fashion Week, one of the biggest stories on the internet happened far away from any official runways. Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie has been one of the most anticipated guests at the fashion presentations, with fans and paparazzi lining up for hours in the Parisian heat for a glimpse at the beloved newcomer. But when Storrie departed his hotel on Tuesday to attend the Saint Laurent Men’s Spring/Summer 2027 show, the power of stan culture erupted into surprising violence. And one woman at the center of the drama? A 59-year-old writer and professional stan named Simone Cromer, better known online for her now-viral handle, Club Chalamet.
Cromer, a longtime fan of Dune and Marty Supreme star Timothée Chalamet, started her Chalamet-focused fan account in 2018. But in 2023, when Chalamet began dating Kylie Jenner, Cromer became a polarizing figure in online spaces. After the couple made their first public appearance, Cromer hosted a TwitterSpaces for close to an hour, claiming the relationship was a fraud, that Jenner was emotionally and intelligently beneath Chalamet, and sightings of the two were causing Chalamet fans intense emotional distress. It gave her public platform, taking her from around 3,000 followers to over 40,000 — even nabbing her a Wall Street Journal profile in 2025. But Cromer also took heat from other fans, who accused her of instability, obsession, and dangerous behavior — claims she continues to categorically deny.
While photos and videos of Storrie smoking clove cigarettes and smizing front-row next to Madonna, Charli xcx, and Debi Mazar were circulating Tuesday afternoon, users on X (formerly Twitter) were more interested in the news that Cromer and another Storrie fan had gotten into a heated altercation outside the actor’s hotel. Storrie stan @mikadontyoudare appeared to live-tweet much of the interaction on X. “Fck. clubchalamet is here. Tf do i do,” they wrote, minutes later adding, “So um, just had a fight with club chalamet.”
In an interview with journalist and Discourted writer Louis Pisano, the fan said that they were aware of Cromer prior to the interaction, calling her “well-known in fan spaces, especially because she’s a danger and a security risk to the celebrities she targets.” According to the fan, they noticed Cromer while waiting outside of Storrie’s hotel and became concerned for the actor’s safety. When Storrie exited the hotel, they claimed Cromer raced toward him. When the fan confronted Cromer, a verbal and physical altercation ensued.
“Something in my head panicked,” the fan told Pisano. “Oh, she’s gonna do something now. She had been doing nothing all day, but maybe she had been biding her time and now was her moment.”
Cromer confirmed the fight in her own post on X, but claimed that she was assaulted without provocation. “As I recall, I was moving along with everyone else and trying to maintain whatever visual advantage I could muster, as was everyone else. Next thing I feel, is someone grabbing my backpack with such force that I almost lost my footing,” Cromer wrote in an extended post. “She glared at me and said, ‘I know who you are. I know who you are, bitch. You bitch!’”
Cromer wrote that she attempted to avoid the fan but was pushed into her path again by the crowd surge when Storrie emerged. “As people were pushing trying to get pics and video, I was pushed up against her as I was also desperately trying to get out of there. But she went feral and pushed back at me and we had an embarrassing brief scuffle,” she added. “It was humiliating.”
Very few things besides Cromer’s age and public persona separate her from the average fan account owner. Nevertheless, online, she’s developed a persona as something close to a fandom bogeyman, less for her actions and more from the potential of what fans believe she could be capable of. This reputation is inextricably linked to Cromer’s publicly documented switches in fandom allegiances. Prior to running her Chalamet fan account, Cromer was an active stan of X-Men actor Michael Fassbender. Many of her detractors have noted that her dedicated focus on actors often changes when they are publicly linked with women she doesn’t like.
Even with Cromer and the fan’s conflicting accounts, it’s impossible to ignore that both of the people involved in the fight were in a situation that the average person might consider unsafe behavior. The situation is ripe for internet attention because it was a confluence of two things that should never meet: emotions cultivated in the vacuum of online spaces and real-life opportunity. Fandom thrives on strong emotion. And in the world of fan accounts, where enthusiasts follow a person’s every move, anything can feel like a life or death threat: a poor review, a doomed relationship, or new attention on an actor you feel like you have ownership over.
But what’s perhaps most ironic is that if the plan was to keep Cromer away from Storrie — or at least out of spaces his fandom is claiming as their own — the fight had the exact opposite effect.
“[The other fan] targeted me and harassed and assaulted me, but I’m fine,” Cromer wrote on Instagram. “I won’t let this deter me from supporting Connor.”