One Week Later, That Will Smith Slap Is Still Stinging

Gilbert Gottfried stood up for a longtime friend in his final social media post just two weeks before his death.

Jada Pinkett Smith is back on the red carpet. The 50-year-old actress had her first public appearance on Saturday night since The Academy banned Will Smith from the Oscars for slapping Chris Rock.  Pinkett Smith was joined by Shonda Rhimes and Debbie Allen at the grand opening of the Rhimes Performing Arts Center, which will also be the home for Debbie Allen’s Dance Academy.  Jada Pinkett Smith made her first public appearance since the 2022 Oscars on Saturday night.

Chris Rock, 57, has feelings about Will Smith slapping him after a joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith‘s saved head at the Oscars, but he’s not going public with them until he gets money for it. The comedian had a comedy show in Indio, CA on April 8, and told the audience he’s doing “OK” after the headline-making incident, which caused Will to be banned from attending the Academy Awards for 10 years, but he won’t talk about it until he gets “paid,” according to the Palm Desert Sun.

violently assaulting comedian Chris Rock onstage in front of millions of viewers after Rock made a crack about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith, the 53-year-old actor was banned from the next 10 years of Academy Awards ceremonies.We should all be so lucky!Smith, who treated a glamorous primetime telecast like 2 a.m. at a roadside bar in Wichita, egregiously gets to keep the shiny Best Actor statuette he won for “King Richard,” now surely nestled on the shelf next to his 10 hard-won Kids’ Choice Awards. No criminal charges have been filed against the actor for storming up to another man, slapping him so hard it made a noise in a 3,400-seat theater and then yelling, “Get my wife’s name out of your f–king mouth!” on live TV.And, if its current inaction is any indication, the FCC will let him be.Imagine how difficult this situation must be for this poor A-lister.

Another one of Chris Rock’s brothers is coming to his defense after he was slapped for the whole world to see!

Zack Sharf Michael Bay isn’t here for your questions about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars. Bay directed Smith in two of his signature action movies, “Bad Boys” and “Bad Boys II.” Asked by Yahoo to weigh in on the slap, Bay responded, “I don’t really care.”“I wasn’t watching. I saw it.

E! News, “I don’t even know what to say about the Oscars. I have no jokes about it. All I can say is that, I don’t know if you saw this, but Will Smith slapped Chris Rock.

Zack Sharf Trevor Noah opened the 64th Annual Grammy Awards by alluding to Will Smith’s controversial slap of Chris Rock during last Sunday’s Oscars. The Grammys took place just one week after the Academy Awards, where Smith took to the stage and slapped Rock after the comedian made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s bald head while presenting the documentary feature category.“Don’t even think of this as an award show,” Noah said about the ceremony. “It’s a concert where we are giving out awards, we will be listening to music, dancing, sing, keeping people’s names out of our mouths and we are going to give people awards all throughout the night. So let’s get straight into it.”Questlove also addressed Will Smith’s slap while presenting the Grammy for song of the year, saying, “All right, I am going to present this award and I trust that you people will stay 500 feet away from me.

Another Rock has spoken out regarding Slapgate; Chris Rock‘s brother, Tony Rock. Defending the most infamous moments of the Oscars 2022, when Will Smith slapped Chris across the face after a joke he made about Jada Pinkett-Smith‘s hair. The slap heard around the world has continued to cause reverberations, and Tony didn’t hold back when he discussed the moment in a new stand-up routine.

While Chris Rock immediately went into “joke mode” after being slapped by Will Smith at the 2022 Oscars, there was some underlying emotion.

after he slapped Chris Rock at the awards show. The authorities did not take any action because Mr Rock decided not to press charges, Will Packer, who produced the the 2022 Oscars ceremony, said. It comes following reports from Variety that Smith met with leaders of the Academy on Tuesday to discuss his outburst, and apologised to chief executive Dawn Hudson and president David Rubin.

A new video is shedding more light on exactly what went down when Will Smith smacked Chris Rock at the Oscars.

Chris Rock finally opened up about the slapping incident with Will Smith that took place on-stage at the Academy Awards at his comedy show in Boston on Wednesday March 30. Chris admitted he’s “still processing” the shocking incident as he performed at the Wilbur Theater. “What’s up, Boston?” he reportedly asked the crowd, before adding: “How was your weekend?!” As the comedy show attendees apparently started getting rowdy and screaming things like, “Sue him Chris, sue him,” he spoke out.

Reliving Sunday’s drama. Wanda Sykes, who cohosted the 94th annual Academy Awards, opened up about her perspective on Chris Rock and Will Smith’s onstage confrontation.

Wanda Sykes has become the latest star to weigh in on the Oscars slap that stunned the world.

Will Smith.The comedian was struck by the actor following a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. In 2018, Pinkett Smith revealed she has alopecia.A Vanity Fair awards insider has since reported that Rock tried to downplay the situation as he exited the stage, nodding to Smith’s Oscar-nominated turn as the boxer in 2001’s Ali.“When Chris Rock walked back to the wings of the stage with the winners, his cheek was red, but he tried to play it off to the gobsmacked crew and fellow presenters by making a joke about one of Will Smith’s other Oscar-nominated roles,” they wrote.“One witness said he remarked loudly, ‘That’s the only time you get hit my Muhammad Ali and it doesn’t leave a scratch.’”Will Smith has since issued a formal apology to Rock via his Instagram page.

Naman Ramachandran Academy Awards co-host Amy Schumer has posted a shocked reaction to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock during the event.“I think we can all agree that the best way to unpack what happened is to stream my series @lifeandbethhulu and see me on tour this fall,” Schumer began in a light-hearted manner in an Instagram post late on Tuesday. Schumer was referring to her Hulu show “Life & Beth.”However, Schumer got serious quickly after that. “But for real.