DJ Jazzy Jeff has become the latest artist to wade into the Will Smith Oscars slap debate, defending the actor for his “human” reaction.Last month, Smith struck Chris Rock on-stage during the Academy Awards ceremony following a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. Following numerous apologies over the incident, Smith resigned from the Academy and described his actions as “shocking, painful, and inexcusable,” before being banned from the Oscars for a decade.Since the incident, Smith has been condemned by a number of celebrities including A$AP Rocky, Janet Hubert, Jim Carrey, Amy Schumer and Zoë Kravitz, while the likes of Denzel Washington and UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak have supported him.Speaking at a live event in Chicago, Jazzy Jeff – who formed the duo DJ Jazzy Jeff And The Fresh Prince with Smith in 1986 and won two Grammys for ‘Parents Just Don’t Understand’ and ‘Summertime’ before they split in 1994 – defended his former bandmate.“Don’t get it twisted that it was something he was proud of.
Inside Will & Jada's 'Serious Conversation' & Rollercoaster Night Together After The Slap
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Fans and viewers are still reeling from the 94th Academy Awards on Sunday night, in large part (OK, entirely) because of the “slap seen around the world” shockingly delivered across comedian Chris Rock‘s face on stage by actor Will Smith.
And now, insiders are revealing more key details about exactly what went on after the incident!
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In fact, according to one insider who just spoke to Us Weekly about the Sunday night shocker at the Oscars, it would seem as though Will and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, were uneasy about something from the very beginning. Of course, Smith was up for the Best Actor award for his role in King Richard — an award he accepted in a tearful speech on stage not long after slapping Rock. So it’s very possible Will was stressed about that major honor.
But something else was going on behind the scenes, as the insider alleges with this cryptic comment (below):
Things quickly escalated from there.
Once the ceremony started, both Will and Jada were name-dropped by the show’s co-hosts. Most notably, Regina Hall picked fun at the pair’s past comments about their open marriage while calling up the “single” males for a COVID-19 testing joke. That didn’t sit well with the 53-year-old actor, who was the only actor called to the stage who didn’t join Hall at the time. The insider claimed (below):
Of course, as we all know by now, things took a turn after the 57-year-old comedian and Good Hair film producer spoke up about Pinkett Smith in a later segment.
Joking about the 50-year-old Red Table Talk host’s hair loss, which was caused by alopecia, Rock caught the ire — and the open palmed right hand — of Smith. In the
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tagging Chris Rock with a audible, on stage slap during the Oscars after Rock made a hair-loss joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who suffers from alopecia.The caught on camera affair — one that prompted the “King Richard” Academy Award winner to yell “keep my wife’s name out your f–king mouth” to Rock after — was no laughing matter for some of the industry’s most known jokesters who have since sounded off, condemning the attack.“He could have killed him,” comedy director Judd Apatow wrote in a now-deleted tweet republished by Variety editor-at-large Kate Aurthur. “That’s pure out-of-control rage and violence.