Jada Pinkett Smith Nearly Skipped Oscars Slap Ceremony Due to Chris Rock Presenting — and Nine More Memoir Revelations

Rustin, the long-awaited biopic directed by George C. Wolfe, and written by Julian Breece and Dustin Lance Black, drives home the point that the arc of U.S.

Selome Hailu The second annual edition of “Byron Allen Presents TheGrio Awards” will air on CBS on Nov. 25 at 8 p.m. after recently being recorded in Beverly Hills.

Byron Allen Presents theGrio Awards special, honoring African American excellence, is returning to CBS for its second year. Co-hosted by The Talk‘s Sheryl Underwood and comedian Roy Wood, with honorees including Mariah Carey, Don Cheadle and Misty Copeland, the event will air on Saturday, November 25 from 8-10 PM on CBS and will stream live on Paramount+.

Tony winner Kenny Leon will direct a new Broadway production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the fall of 2024, the first revival of the classic play since the 2002 production that starred Paul Newman as the stage manager.

Will Smith is taking on a new project following the notoriety that has plagued his family over the past couple of weeks. Smith will involved in an eight-part podcast series called “Class of ‘88,” exploring the rise of Hip Hop in the US.

Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Amy Schumer, Jon Stewart, Rachel Bloom and Stephen Colbert are among the performers set for Next For Autism’s annual Night of Too Many Stars comedy event in New York City in December.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer A dizzying amount of A-list Hollywood actors, comedians and entertainment executives signed an open letter to President Joe Biden on Monday, calling for the release of all hostages taken by terrorist group Hamas. Amy Schumer, Sacha Baron Cohen, Chris Rock, Gwyneth Paltrow, Katy Perry, Bradley Cooper, Justin Timberlake and more were among the highly visible figures to sign the note, launching a formal campaign called #NoHostageLeftBehind.

Chris Rock was spotted gettin’ jiggy with it at the Rolling Stones’ album release party for “Hackney Diamonds” — days after Jada Pinkett Smith’s memoir hit stands. “Chris Rock looked unbothered by all the Jada drama chatting it up with Trevor Noah,” an eyewitness tells The Post about the comedian’s outing.

Will Smith is setting the record straight on his relationship with Jada Pinkett Smith.

So this is why Will and Jada Pinkett Smith are reconciling after years of separation?!

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jada Pinkett Smith‘s new memoir, “Worthy,” may not be the end of her career as an author. In an interview with Extra special correspondent Carlos Greer to promote the book, Pinkett Smith announced she is in talks with Will Smith to write a new book together following the reveal of their separation and her headline-making memoir press tour. “I know Will and I are talking about writing a book, together, called ‘Don’t Try This at Home,’” Pinkett Smith said.

Jada Pinkett-Smith has revealed that her popular web show Red Table Talk will be returning next year.The Facebook Watch Original show saw Pinkett-Smith, her mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris and daughter Willow Smith discuss various topics such as love and relationships, sometimes with a special guest. The show was recently cancelled in April this year after Facebook decided to cancel all their original shows.Per The Daily Mail, during a Q&A session with fans on a livestream event, the actress and musician confirmed that “The Red Table is coming back? and that her family were “in the works of a situation right now” with a return likely for “next year.”Pinkett-Smith explained: “We could not do the Red Table while I was writing this book and while Willow was on her music journey.

Jada Pinkett Smith has been revealing lots of information about her and Will Smith in the past few days!

Jada Pinkett Smith has revealed that her late friend Tupac Shakur had alopecia.The pair became friends while they were both studying at the Baltimore School for the Arts and their friendship was depicted in the 2017 film All Eyez On Me. Their friendship forms a significant part of Pinkett Smith’s soon-to-be-released memoir, Worthy.Pinkett Smith was diagnosed herself with the autoimmune condition, which causes unpredictable hair loss, in 2018 and has been a prominent advocate for awareness surrounding the condition.

“Worthy,” which hits shelves on Oct. 17.In snippets of the interview shared Thursday, Pinkett Smith revealed she and her husband Will Smith, 55, have been separated for the past seven years — even when he told Chris Rock to keep his “wife’s f–cking name out” of his mouth at the 2022 Oscars. “First of all, I’m really shocked, because mind you, I’m not there.

2022 Oscars when presenter Chris Rock made fun of her bald head.Behind the scenes, however, the “Girls Trip” star, 52, was stunned by Will, 55, calling her his spouse so publicly.In a clip from Jada’s upcoming NBC News special with Hoda Kotb airing on Oct. 13, she revealed that she and the “Bad Boys” actor hadn’t labeled each other as “husband” and “wife” in a while.“First of all, I’m really shocked, because mind you, I’m not there.

murdered on Sept. 13, 1996. “We have soulmates — our children can be our soulmates,” Pinkett Smith replied when asked if she would use the term to describe Pac — as he apparently previously described her.

slapping Chris Rock onstage during the 2022 Academy Awards.The actress, who revealed this week that she’s actually been separated from Smith, 55, for seven years, opened up about the headline-making scandal in an interview with People.She said it was “ridiculous in how far” it went, with some believing the incident between Smith and the comedian, 58, occurred because of her.“But I also understood at the same time. Considering the false narrative that I had cheated on Will or I was like some adulteress, Will had never done that before,” Jada, 52, told the outlet.“And I think that when we just look at human nature… when you look at the breadcrumbs, people need something to blame,” she continued. “And so people not knowing what was happening behind the scenes, I surely wasn’t surprised that I got blamed.

Has Hollywood moved on from Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars last year? Maybe everyone else has, but Jada Pinkett Smith wants to touch upon it one more time. EW reports (via a new People interview with the actress) that Pinkett Smith was as shocked as everybody else when her husband went onstage and smacked the Oscars host.

Jada Pinkett Smith was on a roll revealing bombshell after bombshell this week about her separation from Will Smith.