“I told him you were standing squarely on the shoulders of Sidney Poitier,” she recalls Nearly a month after Will Smith issued the controversial slap heard around the world, Chris Rock’s mother, Rose Rock, is speaking out about the Oscars incident. “I told someone when Will slapped Chris, he slapped all …
Read More »Jada Pinkett Smith Says Family Focused On “Deep Healing” After Oscars Slap Controversy
“Some of the discoveries around our healing will be shared at the table when the time calls.” Jada Pinkett Smith has addressed the Oscars slap her husband Will Smith carried out against Chris Rock as the new season of Red Table Talkpremiered. The Facebook Watch series returned on Wednesday (April …
Read More »Tony Awards Implements ‘No Violence’ Policy Following Will Smith’s Oscars Slap
The award show’s producers revealed the new procedure which clarifies how they’d handle an individual “in the event of an incident” in a letter to ticket buyers on Wednesday. The Tony Awards have introduced a new policy on how it will handle potential violence during the live show weeks after …
Read More »Jay Leno Shares ‘Most Disturbing’ Part of Will Smith Oscars Slap Incident For Him: ‘It Was the Yelling of Obscenities’
The comedian and former ‘Tonight Show’ host spoke to the Palm Beach Daily News on Friday ahead of his standup show at the Kravis Center this weekend. Jay Leno has weighed in on the incident at last month’s Academy Awards, where Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage after the …
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