If anyone should be worried about an actor being "labeled" anything, it should be the actor and his talent team. It shouldn't be up to a network to decide, Hey, we don't want this kid to get labeled as something so early in his career.
You should let THE KID worry about it. And obviously he doesn't care or else he wouldn't have talked about it.
Wow! I bet she thought she could get away with it because the BY people were too nice to fight back. She should have been kicked out of the game for that, if not off the team. Totally unsportsmanlike conduct.
I know the movies don't follow the books exactly, but in the book, Bella breaks her hand when she punches Jacob. Yet here she punches one of the other guys but I don't see her wincing from a broken hand.
You should let THE KID worry about it. And obviously he doesn't care or else he wouldn't have talked about it.